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ARTISTS’ DIRECTORY: L. Sabaretnam, chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kalakendra (second from right), releases the ABHAI directory and hands over the first copy to Bharatanatyam professor C.V. Chandrasekar at ABHAI’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Senior violinist T. Venkatraman, (left), ABHAI president M.V. Narasimhachari (second from left) and dancer Minal Daktary (right), are in the picture. CHENNAI: “Bharatanatyam has spread the world over like wildfire. But, if there is one person who took it out of the Tamil country and started performing it in another major city of India, it is Mrinalini Akka,” Kalakshetra professor and dancer C.V. Chandrasekar said, felicitating Mrinalini Sarabhai, veteran dancer and founder of Ahmedabad’s Darpana Academy of the Performing Arts, on Saturday. He was addressing the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Association of Bharatanatyam Artistes of India (ABHAI), where Mrs. Sarabhai was to be honoured with the Natya Kalanidhi award. Since Mrs. Sarabhai is unwell, she deputed one of her first students, Minal Daktary, to accept the award. “When she started her classes in Ahmedabad, I was an 8-year old girl. I remember my first day in the small room where the first classes were held,” Mrs. Daktary reminisced, as she received the award. “Except for their own garba, other forms of dance were almost unknown in Gujarat at that time. She had to face a lot of opposition…Now in Gujarat, in every gully there is a Bharatanatyam dance class,” Mr. Chandrasekar said. Since Mrs. Sarabhai, with the support of her husband and renowned scientist Vikram Sarabhai, started the Darpana Academy on the banks of the Sabarmati six decades ago, she has made an immeasurable contribution to dance as performer, choreographer and scholar, said L. Sabaretnam, industrialist and chairman of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kalakendra. Noting that Mrs Sarabhai’s daughter, Mallika, is carrying on her work at Darpana, Mr. Sabaretnam said: “Dancing is the breath of life for the whole family.” In fact, the third generation of the family was present on Saturday, as Mrs. Mallika Sarabhai’s son Revanta made his Chennai performance debut after the award ceremony. Veteran violinist T. Venkatraman was given the first Usha Srinivasan Endowment Award for a senior accompanist.
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