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SREKALA BHARATH
This year, the title of NRITHYA RATHNAKARA is being bestowed by Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival upon SREKALA BHARATH in April 2024 for her contribution in the field of classical dance.



Madhulita Mohapatra
Madhulita Mohapatra received the IIW SHE INSPIRES AWARD at London in the UK Parliament on March 12, 2024. The event was organised by Inspiring Indian Women (IIW) to celebrate International Women’s Day



Madras Music Academy
The Madras Music Academy will confer SANGITA KALANIDHI award on Carnatic musician TM Krishna. Prof Parassala Ravi (V Raveendran Nair) and Geetha Raja will be conferred with SANGITA KALA ACHARYA awards. S Narasimhan and S Venkatesan, known as Thiruvaiyyaru Brothers, and violinist H K Narasimhamurthy will receive TTV AWARD. MUSICOLOGIST AWARD goes to Dr. Margaret Bastin. The music awards will be given on January 1, 2025 during the sadas.
Mohiniattam dancer Dr Neena Prasad will be conferred NRITYA KALANIDHI Award at the inauguration of the Annual Dance Festival on January 3, 2025.

 

PRIYA MURLE
Laya Laavanyaa Fine Arts Foundation of Dr. Umayalpuram Sivaraman confers award on Bharatanatyam dancer PRIYA MURLE on March 30, 2024 at Narada Gana Sabha mini hall, Chennai.

 

GURU SAGOLSHEM KIRTI SINGH
Traditional Manipuri dance GURU SAGOLSHEM KIRTI SINGH expired on 6th March 2024 at his residence. He joined Banasthali Vidyapith as Guru and Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy as a visiting Guru. He became one of the founder members and Asst. Guru of Progressive Artiste Laboratory. As a dancer, he played many roles in dance drama productions of Progressive Artiste Laboratory. As dance Guru, he mentored more than 30 students of classical Manipuri dance in Manipur and Bangladesh. As Raasdhari, he conducted numerous Raas Lilas organised by PAL, JNMDA, NGOs of Bangladesh and the government of Manipur. He received the Manipur State Kala Akademi Award in 2013.



Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala
Former Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and his daughter Deepa Venkat’s Swarna Bharat Trust honoured Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala with the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD on March 8, 2024 at Nellore.



Anita Sharma
At the 105th birthday celebration of Guru Pankaj Charan Das by Guru Pankaj Charan Odissi Research Foundation, the MAHARI AWARD was given to Anita Sharma (Sattriya) on March 19, 2024 at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar. The awardees on March 18 for their outstanding contributions include Guru Simanchal Das (GAUNI SAMPRADA for Odissi music & vocal), Guru Bagbhan Behera (MADELI SAMMAN for Odissi mardal), Guru Niranjan Behera (BINAKARA SAMMAN for Odissi music & composition), Ruparani Das Borah (NACHUNI SAMPRADA for classical dance)



FAS STREE RATNA AWARD
On March 10, 2024 the Chembur Fine Arts Society awarded its FAS STREE RATNA AWARD to Ananda Shankar Jayant, Darshana Jhaveri and Anupama Hoskere in Mumbai.

 

Ratikant Mohapatra
Ratikant Mohapatra was awarded the SHATABDIRA KALAKAR AWARD by Shatabdira Kalakar, a renowned theatre group from Bhubaneswar, on March 11, 2024.



TRIPURA KASHYAP
Dance therapist, dance educator and author TRIPURA KASHYAP received the INTERNATIONAL LADY LEGEND AWARD in the field of Art from Saksham Society on March 8, 2024.



G. VENU
G. VENU, the renowned Kutiyattam actor and scholar received the AKADEMI PURASKAR for 2023 for his Overall Contribution towards Performing Arts given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi on March 6, 2024. He has played a major role in the conservation and preservation of the rare performing art forms like Pavakathakali, Tholppavakkoothu and Mudiyettu among others. He had formulated the first-ever notation system for the Indian dance forms and documented the mudras, (hand gestures) of the Indian classical art forms like Kutiyattam, Kathakali and Mohiniyattam. After conducting extensive research into the actor training technique of ‘Swaravayu,’ that was formulated at the Kodungallur Kalari, Venu derived his own actor training programme called ‘Navarasa Sadhana.’

 

AMARNATH GHOSH
Young Bharatanatyam (an alumnus of Kalakshetra) and Kuchipudi (disciple of Guru Vempati Chinna Sathyam and Srimayi Venkat) dancer AMARNATH GHOSH was shot multiple times on 27th February 2024, when he was said to be taking an evening walk in the St Louis Academy where he was pursuing higher studies. 



The General Council of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi, at its meeting held on 21 and 22 Feb 2024 at New Delhi unanimously elected 6 eminent personalities in the field of performing arts as Akademi Fellows (Akademi Ratna). The honour carries a purse money of Rupees three lakhs.
The General Council also selected 92 artists from the field of Music, Dance, Theatre, Traditional / Folk / Tribal Music / Dance / Theatre, Puppetry and Overall contribution / scholarship in the Performing Arts for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the years 2022 & 2023. The Award carries a purse money of Rupees one lakh, a Tamrapatra and Angavastram. . The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Awards were conferred by the President of India Droupadi Murmu in a special investiture ceremony on March 6, 2024.
The General Council of the Akademi has also selected 80 young artists for Sangeet Natak Akademi Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the years 2022 & 2023. The Puraskar carries a purse money of Rs. 25,000 besides a Tamrapatra and Angavastram. These awards will be conferred by the Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi, in a special ceremony.
AKADEMI RATNA:
Vinayak Khedekar, R. Visweswaran, Sunayana Hazarilal, Raja & Radha Reddy, Dulal Roy, D.P. Sinha

AWARDEES FOR THE YEAR 2022
AKADEMI PURASKAR for Dance:
Manjula Ramaswamy (BN), Nalini and Kamalini Asthana (Kathak), Kalamandalam Balasubrahmaniam (Kathakali), S. Noyonshakhi Devi (Manipuri), Bhagavatula Sethuram (Kuchipudi), Niranjan Rout (Odissi), Gobinda Saikia (Sattriya), Kala Vijayan (Mohiniattam), Sadhucharan Mahato (Chhau), Bharat Sharma (Creative & Experimental Dance), Karuna Borah (Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre- Ankiya Bhawan), Pusthakam Ramaa (Music for dance)
Margi Madhu Chakyar (Other major traditions of Theatre –Kutiyattam)
Chingtham Ranjeet Khuman (Thang Ta, Manipur)
OVERALL CONTRIBUTION/SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS
Lakshahira Das (Overall contribution in performing arts), Prameela Gurumurthy (Scholarship in performing arts)
USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN YUVA PURASKAR for Dance:
Mandakranta Roy (BN), Kadam Saurinbhai Parikh (Kathak), Urmika Maibam (Manipuri), T.Reddi Lakshmi (Kuchipudi), Arupa Gayatri Panda (Odissi), Dimpee Baishya (Sattriya), Akshara M Das (Mohiniattam), Pradyumna Kumar Mohanta (Chhau), Mingma Dorjee Lepcha (Creative & Experimental Dance), Aparna Nangiar (Nangiarkoothu)
Moirangthem Kendra Singh (Nata Sankirtan, Manipur)
Anuthama Murali (Overall contribution in performing arts)

AWARDEES FOR THE YEAR 2023
AKADEMI PURASKAR for Dance:
Urmila Sathyanarayanan (BN), Jagdish Gangani (Kathak), Margi Vijayakumar (Kathakali). Latasana Devi (Manipuri), Maddali Usha Gayatri (Kuchipudi), Snehaprava Samantaray (Odissi), Bhaben Borbayan (Sattriya), Pallavi Krishnan (Mohiniattam), Parikshit Mahato (Chhau), Nirupama & Rajendra (Creative & Experimental Dance), Perini Prakash (Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre- Periniattam), Kalinath Mishra (Music for dance)
Piyal Bhattacharya (Other major traditions of theatre –Sanskrit Theatre)
OVERALL CONTRIBUTION/SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS
Gopalan Nair Venu (Venu G - Overall contribution in performing arts), Jagdish Trivedi (Scholarship in performing arts)
USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN YUVA PURASKAR for Dance:
Apoorva Jayaraman (BN), Meghranjani Medhi (Kathak), Kalamandalam Vipin (Vipis V.S -  Kathakali), Pukhrambam Reepa Devi (Manipuri), M. Surendra Nadh (Kuchipudi), Debasish Pattnaik (Odissi), Mukunda Saikia (Sattriya), Vidyamol Pradeep (Mohiniattam), Sunita Mahato (Chhau), Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy (Music for Dance)
B. Mallikarjuna Rao (Allied Theatre Arts – Make-up)
Laxminarayan Jena (Overall contribution in performing arts)



Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti awards
Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti awarded the SANATAN SANGEET PURASKAR 2024 to Sudha Raghuraman (classical music) and Navina Jafa (classical dance), Vibha Galhotra (Visual Arts), Sudeep Sen (Literature), Aarti Gupta (Ideas) on 1st March 2024 at C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium, New Delhi.



Dr. Sadanam Harikumar
Dr. Sadanam Harikumar was honoured with the title KALAA BHAASKARA on March 2, 2024 by Bharata Kalanjali during their Kathakali Festival in Chennai.



Padma Awards 2024
The Union government on Jan 25, 2024 released the list of winners of the Padma Awards 2024, conferred by the Govt of India, to recognize exceptional contributions in various fields. The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards. 30 of the awardees are women. The list also includes 8 persons from the category of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees.
- PADMA VIBHUSHAN 2024
Vyjayantimala Bali (Bharatanatyam, Chennai)
Padma Subrahmanyam (Bharata Nrityam, Chennai)
- PADMA SHRI 2024
PV Sadanam Balakrishnan (Kalluvazhi Kathakali, Kerala)
Anupama Hoskere (puppetry, Bangalore)
EP Narayanan (Theyyam, Kannur)
Gaddam Sammaiah (Chindu Yakshaganam, Telangana)
Omprakash Sharma (Mach folk theatre, Madhya Pradesh)
Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Purulia Chhau, mask maker, W Bengal, posthumous)
M Badrappan (Valli Oyil Kumi, Tamilnadu)
Baghabat Padhan (Sabda Nrutya, Odisha)



Nirupama and Rajendra
The convenors of the 2024 Natya Kala Conference of Krishna Gana Sabha are Kathak duo Nirupama and Rajendra of Bangalore.



The DR SUNIL KOTHARI AWARD FOR EMERGING ARTIST 2023 supported by Drishtikon invited submissions sent by artists, nominated by Gurus from different genres. These were sent to a prestigious international jury: Anand Bhatt (UK), Aravinth Kumarasamy (Singapore), Uttara Asha Coorlawala (USA), Samar Jodha, Sandhya Raman, Sanjoy Roy, Shveta Arora and Uma Dogra (India). Each jury member sent in their selection and the winners are:
First: Ivana Sarkar (Manipuri) / Grey Matters
Second: Sai Venkata Gangadhar (Kuchipudi) / Maro Prapancham
Third: Kalyani Sharda (Contemporary) / My Voice
Ivana Sarkar will receive a citation and a cash prize of INR 75,000.



Dr. Ayswaria Wariar
Vadodara based Mohiniattam dancer Dr. Ayswaria Wariar to receive the GUJARAT GAURAV PURASKAR 2018-2019 from the Gujarat Sangeet Natak Akademi, Dept of Sports, Youth and Culture, Govt. of Gujarat.



SHANTALA AWARD
Bharatanatyam Guru M.R. Krishnamurthy (for 2020-2021) and Kuchipudi dancer Sunanda Devi (for 2021-2022) are to be honored with the SHANTALA AWARD by the Karnataka government later in the year.


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