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Sridhar Shanmugam
Sridhar Shanmugam was trained in the
most prestigious school of dance from Tamil Nadu,
India. Sridhar Shanmugam has toured around the world
over the past two decades, working with many of the
worlds most famous artists. Sharing with Pina
Bausch, Suzanna Linke, and countless others, Sridhar
has been an international ambassador for the arts,
and a pilgrim for art as well. A core member of Chandralekhas
groundbreaking modern dance company as well as the
Cultural Centre, Chennai he has also done individual
work consistently. His exacting training in Bharat
Natyam traditional Indian dance, Rangoli painting,
modern and post-modern dance, acting, choreography,
stage lighting theatre & stage technique has made
him excel in performing arts . He has received the
Sangeeth Natak Akademy Awards from Govt of India,
Time out Dance umbrella award from Great Britain,
GIAI Award for culture and ecology from Govt of Italy
as part of Chandralekhas group, has given him
the basis with which to step onto any stage or into
any classroom.
Sridhar Shanmugam is an established
male dancer of very high caliber in the soil of United
States, has been performing extensively in the United
States and India to the acclaim of critics as an intelligent
performer with a keen sense of aesthetics, passion
and dedication. He had his major break in the field
of performing arts in India, was under the banner
of" CULTURAL CENTER in Chennai under the guidance
of the legendary dancer choreographer CHANDRALEKHA.
His recitals in India include performances for prestigious
institutions like the National Center for the Performing
Arts, Bombay, Sahitya Kala Parishad Delhi Administration
Cultural Department; SPICMACAY, Bharatiya Kala Kendra,
House of Soviet Culture and Maxmuller Bhavan and many
others. Overseas, He has had several concert recitals
in the Far East, Europe, and North America, South
America, Canada. A notable performance was at the
Inauguration of "Festival of India in USSR"
in the presence of the then President of USSR Michael
Gorbechev and the then Prime Minister of India Shri
Rajiv Gandhi.
Apart from being a excellent performer
of ace quality, Sridhar Shanmugam has taught extensively
and conducted workshops at several leading institutions
including Columbia University, New York University,
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Museum of Arts, Queens
Museum of Arts and many such prestigious venues. Since
2001, he has performed and lectured for the Education
Department, New York City, Queens Council on the Arts.
Since July 2004, a series of schools from Queens and
Manhattan, long Island & Westchester have been
exposed to dance and lectures by Sridhar Shanmugam
under the programs of City Lore Arts Program and Hospital
Audiences, Inc.
Audiences at educational performances
and concerts for the Queens Museum, N Y University,
and Lincoln Center out doors have been regularly exposed
to his natural interpretive dance form of this tradition
A conscientious purist of Indian classical
dance, he has often worked to interpret western theatre
using the art of NATYAA and has choreographed the
ethnic dance choreography for the Phillip Balaun RAMAYANA
at various locations in the Tri state areas.
He has traveled extensively along the
U.S. East coast performing in art venues, arts Councils
and schools both public and private. His goal has
been to create awareness and a truly appreciative
audience of this unique and rich classical tradition
and place the Indian Classical dance forms on the
world pedestel. He has also worked with differently
abled students in uniquely challenging projects, stimulating
the ,imgs of the students and getting them interested
in culture & Indian Heritage..
Sridhar Shanmugam, works for an art
based non profit institute in New York. In 2004, he
presented his first student in a full-length concert
at the Chinmaya Mission in New Jersey and Pensylvennia,
to an audience of artists and well-wishers.
In the past 9 years, Sridhar Shanmugam
has performed for Lincoln Center, Kaye Play House,
for Carnegie Hall, in Arts Promotion visiting over
60 groups of students in the tri-state area schools,
as well as those in Westchester County, at Rochester
NY, New Jersey Schools, have witnessed this art form.
Sridhar Shanmugam and his accompanists are performing
this service as the program was so successful.
Apart from students as the audience,
Sridhar Shanmugam also continues the relationship
with the Weil Music Foundation, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln
Center Institute and performs for audiences, the Police
academy in NYC which trains all the police officials.
Sridhar Shanmugam has served on panels
at Queens council for the Arts, Queens Museum, Lincoln
Center, Indo American Arts Council. Bharathiya Vidya
Bhavan, Bharathiya kala Kendra and many such prestigious
arts Organization.
Sridhar Shanmugam has served on several
boards, both as advisor and as a moderator.
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