Padma Subrahmanyam is a research scholar, choreographer, teacher, Indologist and author.
12 Facts About Padma Subrahmanyam
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Padma Subrahmanyam is famous in India as well as abroad; several films and documentaries have been made in her honor by countries such as Japan, Australia and Russia.
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Padma Subrahmanyam is well known as the developer and founder of the dance form Bharata Nrithyam.
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Padma Subrahmanyam was born to Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam, the Indian film director and Meenakshi Subrahmanyam on 4 February 1943 in Madras.
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Padma Subrahmanyam's father was a famous Indian filmmaker and her mother, Meenakshi was a music composer and a lyricist in Tamil and Sanskrit.
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Padma Subrahmanyam started teaching dance at a very young age of 14 at her father's dance school.
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Padma Subrahmanyam felt that there was a gap between history, theory and dance and started doing her own research.
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Padma Subrahmanyam has taught in Monfort Rukmani Devi, Maharaja Aagarsen and various other schools in the years 2009 to 2011 and imparted knowledge to the children.
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Padma Subrahmanyam's PhD was based on the reconstruction of the 108 Karanas, which are dance movements described in the Natyasastra.
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Padma Subrahmanyam has authored many articles, research papers and books and has served as a non-official member of the Indo-Sub-commission for education and culture.
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Padma Subrahmanyam has designed the sculptures of the 108 sculptures of Lord Nataraja and goddess Parvathi in black granite for the Nataraja temple at Satara, an undertaking she took on bidding by the Kanchi Paramacharya.
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Padma Subrahmanyam has given lectures at various universities in southeast Asia, on the subject of cultural links between India and other countries.