Grammy Award-winning percussionist T.H. Vinayakram and veteran
playwright Ratan Thiyam are among three personalities chosen for the
prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship, while legendary South
Indian composer Ilayaraja will receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
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Rajam, violinist who performs Hindustani classical music, T.H.
Vinayakram and Ratan Thiyam have been selected for the prestigious the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships.
The Fellowship of the Akademi
is restricted to a very limited number at a given time. Presently there
are only 40 Fellows of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
The honour of
Akademi Fellow carries a purse money of Rs. 3 lakh, while Akademi Awards
carry Rs. 1 lakh besides Tamrapatra and Angavastram.
At the
General Council meeting on Friday, the Akademi also selected 36 persons
from the fields of Music, Dance, Theatre and Puppetry for the Sangeet
Natak Akademi Awards 2012.
Nine eminent artists -- Rajashekhar
Mansur and Ajay Pohankar for Hindustani Vocal Music, Sabir Khan (Tabla)
and Bahauddin Dagar (Rudra Veena) for Hindustani Instrumental Music,
O.S. Thyagarajan for Carnatic Vocal Music, Mysore M Nagaraja (Violin)
and K V Prasad (Mridangam) for Carnatic Instrumental Music, Ilayaraja
for Creative and Experimental Music and Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi (Gurbani)
for Other Major Traditions of Music have been selected for the Award
2012.
In the field of Dance, nine eminent practitioners, namely
Priyadarsini Govind (Bharatanatyam), Vijay Shankar (Kathak), Vazhengada
Vijayan (Kathakali), Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry (Kuchipudi), Sharmila
Biswas (Odissi), Jai Narayan Samal (Chhau), Painkulam Damodara Chakyar
(Kutiyattam), Jwala Prasad (Music for Dance) and Aditi Mangaldas
(Creative & Experimental Dance) have been selected for the Akademi
Award 2012.
In the field of Theatre, eight eminent artists have been selected for Akademi Awards 2012.
They
include Arjun Deo Charan for Playwriting, Tripurari Sharma and Waman
Kendre for Direction, Parvesh Sethi, Nirmal Rishi and Purisai Kannappa
Sambandan for Acting, Murari Roychoudhury for Theatre Music and Ghulam
Rasool Bhagat for Major Traditions of Theatre (Bhand Pather).
Goru
Channabasappa for Folk Music (Karnataka), Kinaram Nath Oja for Suknani
Ojapali (Assam), Prem Singh Dehati for Folk Theatre (Haryana), Sulochana
Chavan for Lavani (Maharashtra), Mattannur Sankaran Kutty Marar for
Thayambaka (Kerala), Govind Ram Nirmalkar for Nacha (Chhattisgarh),
Heera Das Negi for Mask Making (Himachal Pradesh) and Prafulla Karmakar
for Traditional Puppetry (West Bengal) have also been chosen.
Nandini Ramani and Arun Kakade will receive the Akademi Award 2012 for Overall Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts.
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