Sanjay Kumar Joshi is the first-ever male to do Vilasini Natyam. |
Sattiriya is the traditional dance of Vaishnava sattras monasteries in Assam. Shankara Deva instituted Brajavali as the language of Sattriya compositions, not Sanskrit or Assamese. |
T. Balasaraswathi regularly
featured Radhakrishna Naidu, an AIR artist on the clarionet in her dance
performances.
('Western connection' by Sriram Venkatakrishnan in The Hindu Friday Review, Aug 8, 2008). |