Photographs by Avinash Pasricha
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Priya
Venkataraman is well known among the younger
generation of Bharatanatyam dancers. Trained
initially under Smt. Saroja Vaidyanathan, Priya honed
her dance skills further under Smt.
Kanaka Srinivasan, and briefly under Ms. Leela
Samson. Priya's dance reflects the cumulative
richness of her learning experience. A major twelve years
of her starting career were spent in the
United States where apart from performing
extensively, Priya taught Bharatanatyam through her dance school "Kalakriti",
where over seventy students were enrolled- eleven of
them completing their Arangetram conducted by her.
The recipient of two
prestigious fellowships awarded by the
Illinois arts council,
Priya was interviewed live on FOX
39 television. She has also been featured on the
cover of VILTIS, a popular arts magazine. An
empanelled artist of the Indian Council for
Cultural Relations, Priya has won plaudits
from audiences and critics alike for her dance.
Priya's collaborative work with the US
based modern dancer Sandra Schramel and
musician Byron Wise (Eyes Beneath the Night)
was written about as "a must see for
all lovers of dance" by the Rock River
Times (USA, 2002).
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