• Thumbnail for Rukmini Devi Arundale
    Rukmini Devi Arundale (née Shastri; 29 February 1904 – 24 February 1986) was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance...
    22 KB (2,194 words) - 05:36, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Arundale
    of the Indian dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale. Arundale lost his mother at a young age and was adopted by his aunt, Francesca Arundale, a wealthy Theosophist...
    10 KB (1,093 words) - 05:23, 29 June 2024
  • academy was founded in January 1936 by Rukmini Devi Arundale and her husband George Arundale. Under Arundale's guidance, the institution achieved national...
    15 KB (1,293 words) - 20:30, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bharatanatyam
    modern Bharatanatyam by formalizing it. In 1932, E Krishna Iyer and Rukmini Devi Arundale put forward a proposal to rename Sadiraattam (Tamil: சதிராட்டம்)...
    66 KB (7,379 words) - 01:37, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leela Samson
    Kalakshetra to learn Indian classical dance and music under the founder, Rukmini Devi Arundale and she studied in the Besant Theosophical High School at the same...
    20 KB (1,447 words) - 01:24, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Devadasi
    mainstream society. In 2018 she received the Padmashri award at age 43. Rukmini Devi Arundale, a theosophist trained in ballet, sought to re-appropriate the Devadasi...
    47 KB (5,338 words) - 22:53, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tamil Brahmin
    and author of Agattiyam, an early grammar of the Tamil language Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancer, theosophist, choreographer...
    16 KB (1,447 words) - 10:26, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Indian women in dance
    to their careers, as is the case with many Bollywood actresses. Rukmini Devi Arundale Saroj Khan Chitra Visweswaran Oopali Operajita Farah Khan Vaibhavi...
    4 KB (253 words) - 16:57, 21 May 2024
  • 1952 2 April 1954 5  – Kalidas Nag 3 April 1952 2 April 1954 6 Rukmini Devi Arundale 3 April 1952 2 April 1962 7  – N. R. Malkani 3 April 1952 2 April...
    18 KB (113 words) - 23:00, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indira P. P. Bora
    from Assam, India. Trained in Bharatnatyam for 13 years under Guru Rukmini Devi Arundale and in Kuchipudi under the guidance of Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam...
    3 KB (176 words) - 16:45, 22 April 2024