Bharatanatyam exponent C.V. Chandrasekhar.
| Photograph Credit score: S. R. RAGHUNATHAN
Academician, dancer, musician, choreographer and mentor — C.V. Chandrasekhar (fondly known as CVC or Chandru anna) dealt with all of them in a method uniquely his personal. He was an artiste whom your complete dance fraternity seemed as much as in reverence. When it got here to artwork observe, he brooked no compromise. His was a life wealthy in creative values. The 89-year-old dancer handed away this morning.
Born in Shimla on Might 22, 1935, C.V. Chandrasekhar was uncovered to Carnatic music at an early age. His formal coaching in music started at Kalakshetra in 1945. Although he was despatched there to study music from T.Ok. Ramaswamy Iyengar and Budalur Krishnamurthy Sastri, Rukmini Devi needed him to coach in Bharatanatyam as effectively. Recognized for his flawless approach and nuanced abhinaya, CVC owed his lengthy journey within the performing arts to the meticulous coaching imparted by gurus S. Sarada, Vasantha and Sarada Hoffman at Kalakshetra. Even earlier than his arangetram in 1950, he grew to become an integral a part of the famed Kalakshetra dance dramas. “The primary function that I carried out was that of a kattiakaran in ‘Kuttrala Kuravanji’,” he had recalled throughout an interview with The Hindu.
C.V. Chandrasekhar performing in Mangaluru on November 30, 2013.
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H.S. Manjunath
After his education, school and dance coaching in Chennai, CVC did his post-graduation in Botany from Banaras Hindu College. He married Jaya, a lawyer and a educated dancer, in 1962. They spent near 20 years instructing dance at BHU. Their daughters Chitra Dasarathy and Manjari Rajendra Kumar are additionally educated Bharatanatyam dancers. Amongst CVC’s notable choreographic productions are Kalidasa’s ‘Ritu Samharam’ and ‘Meghadootham’, ‘Aparajitha’, ‘Pancha Maha Bhootham’, ‘Arohanam’, ‘Bhoomija’ and ‘Bhramarageeth’.
In 1980, CVC went on to develop into the Head of Division of Performing Arts at M.S. College in Baroda, the one college then to supply a curriculum in classical dance. A recipient of a number of awards together with the Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Kalidas Samman, Sangeeta Kala Acharya from the Music Academy and Nritya Choodamani from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, C.V. Chandrasekhar’s success as a soloist paved the best way for different male Bharatanatyam lovers to pursue the artwork type.
