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Shovana Narayan is best known as one of the best Kathak danseuses in the world. She is taken by the youth of today as pioneer and a role model in successfully combining two parallel careers with success and dignity. She performs in India and around the world, and has been awarded the Padma Shri.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bhavalaya.com/art%20and%20culture/famous_kathak_dancers.html )〕 Her guru is Birju Maharaj. Narayan studied at Miranda House in Delhi, India, graduating with a Master's degree in Physics in 1972. She completed MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from University of Madras in 2008 and M.Phil in Social Sciences from Punjab University in 2001. She also worked as a career officer for the Indian Audits & Accounts Service 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mirandahouse.ac.in/MirandaHouse/UserSpace/UserName/admin/DynamicFolder/2006-2007/Alumnae/AlumniBioProfile_ShovanaNarayan.htm )〕 and retired in 2010. She is married to Dr. Herbert Traxl, Austrian Ambassador to India. ==Achievements in Dance Career== As a 'Performer and Guru', Shovana Narayan is India’s most celebrated and outstanding Kathak Maestro of the present age; well known both as choreographer and performer. She blazed a trail in the field imbuing it with depth, maturity and ennoblement. She performed and mesmerized audiences all over the world in several prestigious national and international festivals. She also performed before several Heads of States and Governments and has trained several Kathak artistes, some of whom are leading artistes of the young generation. As a 'Choreographer-Performer', Shovana Narayan has spearheaded and produced international collaborative works with leading dancers of Western Classical Ballet, Spanish Flamenco, Tap dance, Buddhist chants with Buddhist Monks as well as to the compositions of western Classical composers. She was the Creative Director-Producer-Dancer of the first ever trilogy involving Western Classical Dance-Kathak-Spanish Flamenco in “The Dawn After” in 1994. She was also the Creative Director of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 6th Abylimpics 2003, held at New Delhi. She delivered the Opening & Closing Ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games Delhi in 2010 with a thundering success. She has spearheaded and produced several collaborative works with leading dancers of several Indian classical dance styles. She was also the Creative Director-Producer for: * the Classical Dance Sequence in the Opening Ceremony of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Independence at National Stadium, 1997 * the Ballet on First war of Independence on Begum Hazrat Mahal * the Ballet for Guru Gobind Singh’s Ter - Centenary Celebrations of the Khalsa panth, 1999 Some of her eminent choreographies include: * the dance ballet “Kadambari: The Poet’s Muse” (2012) on the influence of sister-in-law, Kadambari on Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a subject never attempted before * the genre of dance enactments to philosophical themes with eminent philosopher, late Prof Ramchandra Gandhi that were based on the lives of contemporary thinkers and sages (Vivekanand, Ramana Maharshi, Francis of Assisi, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramkrishna Paramhansa) * a soliloquy to “Shakuntala” (by Maithili Sharan Gupt), which rejuvenated the narrative tradition of the North-Indian dance form As an 'Organiser', Shovana Narayan organises annually: * a Festival for young torchbearers of classical performing arts ‘LalitĀrpan Festival’ at India Habitat Centre (for almost a decade). * the Asavari festival featuring maestros of classical performing arts (for over two decades). * the Annual Day ‘Rhythm & Joy’ of young students of Kathak (for over two decades). Shovana is a dancer with a cause. Deeply committed, involved and aware of people and their problems, she was deeply involved with the organisation and presentation of the first artists’ sensitive outpourings and endeavor to help the families affected by the Kargil war, the Tsunami and the Bihar flood. She is a regular and most ardent champion of issues related to women’s problems and the ‘specially abled’. She has conceptualized and choreographed several ballets on women’s issues and other social issues. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shovana Narayan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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