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	Uday Shankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uday Shankar (1900 - 1977) was a world renowned classical dancer and choreographer from India.
		While Ananda Shankar was a musician and music composer who trained with Dr. Lalmani Misra rather than his uncle, Ravi Shankar, Mamata Shankar is a dancer like her parents and is also a noted actress, working in films by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.
		Uday was awarded Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India and the Desikottama by the Visva-Bharati University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uday_Shankar (262 words)

	Ravi Shankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ravi Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra, violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and himself, music for flute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, and music for Hozan Yamamoto, master of the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and koto virtuoso Musumi Miyashita.
		Shankar is also the uncle of the late sitarist Ananda Shankar.
		Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a member of the United Nations International Rostrum of Composers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravi_Shankar (905 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article
		The renaissance in Indian classical dancing began in the 1930’s and in North India it was led by Uday Shankar (1900-77) and in the South by Rukmini Devi (1904-1986), the eminent theosophist.
		To quote Uday Shankar’s wife, Amala, "Uday Shankar, from all accounts was, at that point of time, an aspiring and highly talented student of painting, a rather spoilt young man of an affluent father.
		To cut a long story short, it was Pavlova’s suggestion that eventually led Uday Shankar to organise a troupe of Indian dancer (funded by the Elmhirst family) and organise 29 shows in the USA, which evoked a great positive response in the western world.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020922/spectrum/main2.htm (735 words)

	Dance Advance \| Dance Advance Archives: Documents
		Uday Shankar’s father was his mentor and advisor; he inhabited a world of Sanskrit scholarship and Indian princely states, living comfortably both in India and in England.
		Uday Shankar, a Bengali Brahmin, was raised in a village near Benaras and in the princely state of Jhalawar, where his father held a series of official posts in this small Rajasthani kingdom.
		Uday Shankar’s creative dance was not in the picture, though he had made India his permanent base since 1938.
	www.danceadvance.org /03archives/shankar/page2.html (761 words)

	Ravi Shankar
		Ravi Shankar was born in Tilebhandeshwar Galli in Benares (Varanasi) on April 7, 1920.
		Uday lived with his troupe some five years in Europe and also toured the world during this period, including his youngest brother Ravi for most of the time.
		Uday managed to persuade Allauddin Khan to join his troupe for a year as a soloist on their European tour beginning at the end of 1935.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/music/65/ravi_shankar.htm (2377 words)

	Shankar Uday - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Shankar, Uday (1900-1977), Indian dancer and choreographer who brought Indian dance to international attention.
		Modern dance began in India as part of the cultural revivalist movement, and was from its inception influenced by Western thought.
		Shankar, Ravi (1920- ), Indian sitarist and composer, considered one of the foremost musicians of India.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Shankar_Uday.html (109 words)

	Uday Shankar
		Uday Shankar is a dancer and choreographer who brought Indian dance to international attention.
		Returning to India, he opened a school for Indian dance, music, and drama he founded the Uday Shankar India Culture Centre in Almora, Uttar Pradesh (The school for dance, drama, and music closed during World War II but reopened in 1965 in Calcutta.) He toured occasionally until the 1960s.
		Shankar together with his brother Ravi Shankar created a new dance style imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance; he also drew on Western theatrical techniques.
	taal.20m.com /udayshankar.html (250 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Uday Shankar
		Uday was born in the city of Udaipur while the Pandit was serving the Maharaja of Jhalawar as his private secretary.
		Uday's training at home and abroad and his interactions with the leading contemporary dance artistes of India and Europe equipped him for performance at cross-cultural levels.
		Uday Shankar's national and international recognition brought respectability, status and dignity for dance art, which had hitherto been the preserve of traditional dancers called baijis, devadasis, mirasis and nartakis.
	www.banglapedia.org /HT/U_0003.HTM (801 words)

	SRUTI-India Carnatic Music,india dance & music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Comprising a festival of choreographic works, a photographic exhibition on Uday Shankar, film shows on dance, as well as a seminar, all together focussing on the multiple dimensions of Uday Shankar's work, it was a mega event-- a giant tribute to the great artist hailed as the father of Indian ballet.
		Uday Shankar not only contributed to the renaissance of Indian performing arts but also helped open the eyes of the West to the rich cultural heritage of this ancient land.
		After all the inaugural formalities were completed, Uday Shankar's widow Amala Shankar touched the heart of the people present by dancing for a piece of music composed by her late illustrious musician son Ananda Shankar, in memory of his father, when the latter passed away in 1977.
	www.sruti.com /May02/mayn&n.htm (868 words)

	SRUTI-India Carnatic Music,india dance & music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uday Shankar, from all accounts was, at that point of time, an aspiring and highly talented student of painting, a rather spoilt young man of an affluent father, known for his sartorial extravagances and personable looks.
		Somewhat miffed that she, one of the chief figures of Uday Shankar's Almora years, was not asked to serve on the organising team from the start, Zora had kept herself rather aloof from the slew of events organised as homage to Uday Shankar in the year of his birth centenary.
		It was Uday Shankar who put India on the international dance map, said Desai but she added that, side by side with the chorus of praise, rumblings of disapproval had started by 1934, with scholars in Tamil Nadu wondering why the "hotch-potch" devised by Uday Shankar had evoked such high praise.
	www.sruti.com /feb02/febn&n.htm (2199 words)

	A connoisseur of Indian art - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uday Shankar, who placed Indian dance on the world map was one of the greatest dancer-choreographers of the 20th century.
		While Uday Shankar and Tagore were trying to create a new form and style of dancing, the efforts of the latter two were to preserve and popularise their respective dance forms.
		Uday Shankar’s India Culture Centre at Almora, started towards the end of 1930s, was a pioneering institute for the propagation of Indian dance traditions.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun272004/ac2.asp (1412 words)

	Exhibition - Creativity: Life & Work of uday Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In case of Uday Shankar, whose centenary we are celebrating, it is obvious that he knew this inter-relationship and inter-dependence of arts intuitevely.
		Uday Shankar was born on 8th December, 1900 at Udaipur, Rajasthan in a high caste Brahin Bengali family.
		Uday Shankar drew inspiration from Dartington Hall, and accepted the suggestion of Elmhirst to establish a Centre for Dance in India.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ex_0054.htm (1091 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Kamalesh Maitra
		In 1974 Ravi Shankar and George Harrison took him on the highly acclaimed world tour of the Musical Festival from India, and two years later he was invited by Walter Bachauer to the legendary Meta-Music Festival in Berlin.
		In 1950 he joined the Uday Shankar Ballet Ensemble, with which he remained for 20 years, firstly as a master drummer and composer and since 1956 as the artistic director.
		Uday Shankar died at about the same, so Maitra settled in Berlin in 1977, though he has since left the city several times to give concerts all over the world.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?258 (949 words)

	Lifestyle: Culture; On perilous high heels; Jan 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uday Shankar, and his equally famous wife, dancer Amala Shankar, did not persuade their daughter to take up dancing.
		Uday Shankar never told Mamata that she should become the number one dancer of the country.
		Recently, the Union government decided to revive the Uday Shankar India Culture Centre, established by the veteran dancer in Almora; a foundation stone was promptly laid.
	www.the-week.com /24jan18/life6.htm (1179 words)

	Little India
		Married to Pundit Ravi Shankar's brother Rajendra, Lakshmi Shankar shares memories of a life lived in enrichment, singing her way into the hearts of millions all over the world for 50 years.
		That was the basic foundation of my entire life and then I went to Uday Shankar's culture center and became a staff member and dancer and learnt all the other styles of dances like Manipuri, Kathakali and Uday Shankar's' own style plus how to create ballet and other movements.
		Uday Shankar was a genius and a great showman.
	www.littleindia.com /august2002/Mehfil.htm (944 words)

	Urmimala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in Udaipur and trained in art in Bombay and London, Uday Shankar began formal art training in Bombay in 1917 and two years later studied at the Royal College of Art in London.
		Uday Shankar's style of contemporary Indian dance utilizes a crucial balance between the traditional classical Indian dance forms and modern universal dance in keeping the essence of Indian dance movements alive.
		Shankar was able to create a universal language of dance, understood, easily followed and appreciated by lay persons as well as dance critics all over the world.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/cwps/urmi.html (284 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 191 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Uday Shankar's name is known throughout the four continents, and he has achieved a unique place amongst the dance lovers all over the world.
		Uday Shankar was born on 8th December 1900 in Udaypur, Rajsthan.
		The Uday Shankar school of the dance is one of the creative work, embodying the expressive gestures, wonderful rhythms, varied subjects and dramatic forms.
	www.thedailystar.net /2003/12/08/d312081402117.htm (547 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: UNESCO observes grand centenary functions for Uday Shankar
		Nearly 70 years ago, on March 3, 1931, Uday Shankar had opened the first series of his dance performance at the Champs Elysees Theatre in Paris, where he interacted with the leading dancers and choreographers of France and other countries of Europe in the 30s.
		Amala Shankar, a dancer of repute and wife of Uday Shankar, will travel all over the world to present the programmes, including an illustrated talk on the gifted dancer, an IGNCA release said.
		Uday Shankar, who made Paris his second home, traveled throughout Europe and America winning laurels for his exceptional presentation of Indian classical dance forms.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2001/apr/27uday.htm (353 words)

	Pandit Ravi Shankar
		Critics accused Ravi Shankar of polluting the high and chaste standard of presentation and even feared that the purity of ragas was at stake.
		Uday was Uday Shankar, the famous dancer and Ravi's elder brother) Also posted to rec.music.indian.classical.
		Uday was quite convinced that I should keep up dancing as my primary interest, but he thought a few months with Baba wouldn't do me any harm.
	www.chembur.com /anecdotes/ravishankar.htm (9991 words)

	Dance Advance \| Dance Advance Archives: Documents
		Uday Shankar was photographed by Lipnitzki in Paris in the 1920's.
		His technique is a form in itself.” I found out that Uday Shankar was living in Calcutta, and Samar described him as old and paralyzed (a false rumor, as it turned out).
		So two major considerations in writing of Uday Shankar are the impact of this Indian choreographer and dancer on his times, and the significance of his life and works for our times.
	www.danceadvance.org /03archives/shankar (752 words)

	Modern Dance - www.artindia.net
		Uday Shankar, who was born in the early years of the 20th century, is widely accepted as the Father of Modern Dance in India.
		Uday Shankar was an idealist as well as a wonderful showman.
		The institute established by Uday Shankar is now defunct, but his legacy survives in the work of his children and his many disciples, who have their own troupes and students.
	www.artindia.net /modern.html (478 words)

	Uday Shankar takes charge as editor of Star News - Indiantelevision.com's Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shankar took over from incumbent news director Sanjay Pugalia who, according to Star News president Ravina Raj Kohli, would be concentrating for the present on managing the election coverage of the channel.
		Kohli says Shankar's broad brief is to carry forward the channel tag line "pace, punch, credibility and impact", with the ultimate aim of pivoting Star News into the Number 1 position in the news sweepstakes.
		Just getting Shankar may not ensure that Aaj Tak can be toppled from the top slot as the success story of the channel, which has garnered over 50 per cent of the market share, would be a difficult ballgame to replicate even by Shankar.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/feb/feb141.htm (233 words)

	India Today
		The problem with Shankar's style was its ambivalence between an ersatz modernism and its simplistic re-creation of what the West imagined Indian tradition to be.
		Unfortunately for Shankar and his followers, revivalists like Arundale, Vallathol, Paluskar and Bhatkhande had done such a good job with the neo-classical traditions in dance and music that even Ravi Shankar decided to delve deeper into the classical rather than skim its surface searching for something not quite palpable.
		The week-long seminar, apart from the participation of the Shankar family and associates, is thus filled with crusty institutionwallas.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/20011224/arts2.shtml (1167 words)

	The Hindu : Uday Shankar remembered
		Uday Shankar -- the name conjures up images of a great Indian who danced with the legendary Anna Pavlova, even as a young student of painting in London.
		The seminar was part of a month-long calendar of events that have been planned to celebrate the centenary celebrations of this dancer who founded a Centre for Culture in the Himalayas.
		Already, an exhibition on Uday Shankar is on at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Delhi-ites can catch up with vignettes of his great work.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/12/13/stories/2001121301690300.htm (380 words)

	Uday Shankar Centenary Celebrations Under The Aegis of IGNCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amala Shankar gave a demonstration of Uday Shankar's technique and also reminisced about her first trip to Paris that year (1931) in March.
		Sunil Kothari is a former Uday Shankar professor at Rabindra Bharti University, Kolkatta and is curating an exhibition on Uday Shankar for IGNCA.
		He said Uday Shankar had put Indian dance on the world map with his performance of Krishna, with the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlov playing the role of Radha.
	www.ignca.nic.in /nl001709.htm (442 words)

	» Uday Shankar Great Personalities Biography : Incredible People : Famous People Guide: Famous Personalities
		Uday Shandar was born on December 8, 19 00, at Udaipur, Rajasthan, in a high caste Bengali family.
		Uday shankar never had any formal training in any of the classical dance forms.
		Uday Shankar invented his dance movements, drawing inspiration form the Rajput and the Mughal miniature paintings.
	profiles.incredible-people.com /uday-shankar (211 words)

	Reviews from The Horizons - Art, Culture and Lifestyles from India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It organized the Uday Shankar Shatabdi Samaroh, a festival of choreographic works from all over the country, to commemorate the birth centenary of the pioneer of contemporary Indian dance.
		His wife Amala Shankar, daughter Mamata Shankar and daughter-in-law Tanusree Shankar gave a glimpse of the heritage they inherited from Uday Shankar.
		Choreographed by the matriarch of the family, Amala, and using the movements created by her husband, it was a group presentation with Amala's students as well.
	www.thehorizons.com /review/rev73.htm (477 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		The large wooden box, containing personal belongings and documents of Uday Shankar, that she had kept in a house belonging to the P.N. Roy Trust Estate at 38, Golf Club Road, has been broken open.
		Uday Shankar’s sets, costumes, musical instruments and other effects were kept at 38, Golf Club Road.
		But Uday Shankar’s effects are not the only precious things that have disappeared.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031118/asp/calcutta/story_2578512.asp (643 words)

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