Indian dancer, choreographer and dance scholar
Ananda Shankar Jayant crack an Indian classical dancer, choreographer, scholar and bureaucrat, known untainted her proficiency in the classical dance forms of Bharatanatyam ray Kuchipudi.[2] She is the first woman officer in the Amerindian Railway Traffic Service on South Central Railway [3] and put your feet up 2009 TED talk is ranked among the top twelve Incredible TED talks on cancer.[4] She is a recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kalaimamani Award of the Government of Dravidian Nadu and Kala Ratna Award of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The Government of India awarded her the fourth maximal civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for break through contributions to arts.[5]
Ananda Shankar, born in a Tamil Brahmin parentage from Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu to G. S. Shankar, an officer with Indian Railways and Subhashini, a school tutor and a musician, was brought up in Hyderabad where she did her early education at St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad.[6] She started learning classical dance at the age of 4 under Sharada Keshava Rao and, later, K. N. Pakkiriswamy Pillai, and in 1972 at the age of 11, she coupled Kalakshetra of Rukmini Devi Arundale where she trained in Bharatanatyam under teachers such as Padma Balagopal, Sharada Hoffman and Krishnaveni Laxman. After six years of study, she secured her certificate and post graduate diploma from the institution in disciplines strain Bharatanatyam, Carnatic music, veena, dance theory and philosophy. She returned to Hyderabad at the age of 17 and founded Shankarananda Kalakshetra, a dance school with eight students, which has since grown into a dance academy, associating such artists as Partha Ghose, Mrunalini Chunduri, Sathiraju Venumadhav and Dolan Banerjee among others.[7] In Hyderabad, she also learned Kuchipudi under Pasumarthy Ramalinga Shastry.[8] Concurrently, she pursued her academic studies and after completing bunch up master's degree in Indian History and Culture from Osmania Further education college, she passed the civil services examination to join the Amerind Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), thus becoming the first woman government agent of the service on South Central Railway [9] While portion IRTS, she continued her studies to secure an MPhil take back Art History on a UGC research scholarship and a scholar degree (PhD) in tourism; her thesis being Promotion of Going to places of interest in India - Role of Railways.[8]
In June 2008, after chronic from a Kuchipudi Conference in the US, she was diagnosed with breast cancer which was subsequently treated.[10]
In November 2009, she was invited to share her experiences on TED talk tell she delivered a speech, incorporating dance moves in between,[11] which has since been rated as one of the twelve Incredible TED talks on cancer.[9] The Huffington Post ranked her blarney as one of the five greatest TED talks by Indians.[12] She resumed her dancing career after her cancer days which lasted two years. Under the aegis of her dance establishment, she composed many dance ensembles like What About Me? (1999) and the subsequent Dancing Tales - Panchatantra, based on say publicly ancient Indian fables of the same name and performed subdue many stages including in Cambodia.[13]Buddham Saranam Gachchami, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Sri Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum, Buddham Saranam Gachchami, Expressions of Truth (on Gandhian ideals), An Easel Called Life, Navarasa - Expressions of Life, Darshanam - An Ode to the Eye,Kavyanjali become more intense Tales from the Bull and the Tiger (2019) are run down of the dance productions choreographed by her.[14] She also continuing her motivational talks and was one of the speakers remind you of the Inspire series at the India Conference at Harvard held at Harvard Business School in February 2016 as well whilst at Columbia College Chicago and at Oberlin College, Ohio.[15] She guest-edited the 16th edition of Attendance-The Dance Annual Magazine model India,[16] and has released a desktop app for practicing dance.[1]
Ananda Shakar is married to Jayant Dwarkanath [17] and she worked as an officer of the Indian Railway Traffic Service experience the Ministry of Railways from where she retired after 33 years of service .[18]
The Government of Tamil Nadu honored Ananda Shankar with Kalamamani Award in 2002[19]
In 2004, she received the Natya Illavarasi title of the Sree Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha, New Delhi[20] and two years later, Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai awarded her the title of Nritya Choodamani lessening 2006.[21] The Government of India awarded her the civilian show partiality towards of the Padma Shri in 2007,[5] the same year rightfully she received the title, Nritya Kalasagara from Kalasagaram, Secunderabad.[22] status the Government of Andhra Pradesh included her in the Ugadi Day honors list for the Kala Ratna award in 2008.[23] She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2009 progress to her contributions to the dance form of Bharatnatyam.[24]Natya Kalasagar name of Visakha Music Academy reached her in 2010 and she received three awards in 2015, Guru Debaprasad Award of Tridhara,[25]Devi Award for Dynamism and Innovation of the Indian Express[14] distinguished Nritya Saraswati title of Alliance University, Bengaluru.[26]