Shantala shivalingappa biography examples

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Opening the Door

Shantala Shivalingappa is a young Kuchipudi dancer brought up in Paris, the daughter of the Bharata Natyam dancer and teacher, Savitry Nair.

She first caught my eye at the Fall For Dance festival, where she danced Varnam, a Kuchipudi solo.

Shantala shivalingappa biography examples

I was immediately struck by her musicality, the power and precision of her footwork, and the absolute clarity of her movements. And to the grace of her upper body and a jump that seems to comes out of nowhere, light and airy as a cat’s.

Since then she has performed in New York and at Jacob’s Pillow several times, both in her own solo Kuchipudi evenings (Swayambhu, Shiva Ganga) and with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, which she joined in Her mother exposed her to contemporary theatre and dance at a young age, and she has explored it more and more over the years, working with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Brook, and Ushio Amagatsu, among others.

But it is clear she had a par