Manjula Ramaswamy, Telangana -Bharatanatyam: Awardee: Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puruskar) for the year 2022.

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Bharatanatyam guru Manjula Ramaswamy receives Sangeet Natak Akademi award from President Droupadi Murmu on March 6, 2024

Veteran Bharatanatyam guru Manjula Ramaswamy has been conferred with the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2022-23 for her contribution to Bharatanatyam. The 66-year-old dancer and the director of Hyderabad-based dance institute Sri Rama Nataka Niketan was honoured by President Droupadi Murmu on March 6, 2024, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.

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About:

Manjula Ramaswamy:

Monday 12, May 2025, 18:00.

Manjula Ramaswamy: Born - 28 March 1958 (age 67), Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu

Nationality Indian

Occupation(s) Bharatanatyam dancer and dance teacher

Spouse Ramaswamy Iyer

Children 2

Parent(s) V.S. Ramamoorthy and Rajalakshmi Ramamoorthy

Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2022)

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Introduction:

Manjula Ramaswamy is a bharathanatyam dancer and dance teacher from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. Together with her father, she started a dance academy called Sri Rama Natak Niketan in Hyderabad. She received many awards and honors including the Ugadi Puraskar from the Andhra Pradesh government and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2022.

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Biography:


Manjula Ramaswamy with her father V.S. Ramamoorthy

Manjula Ramaswamy was born on 28 March 1958 in Vishmanapettai village in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, to Bharatanatyam dancer and dance teacher V.S. Ramamoorthy and Rajalakshmi Ramamoorthy. She started learning dance under her father at the age of eight.

She joined Hyderabad Central University to study dance and completed her studies with a gold medal in Bharatanatyam.


Sri Rama Nataka Niketan's Post:

Sri Rama Nataka Niketan: February 20, 2021. (Facebook)

Our dear teacher Guru Smt. Manjula Ramaswamy and the team invite all of you to join us today at 7 pm on ARTOINDIA website as our senior student Dr. Srishti Budhori will be presenting a recital "Gurusamarpanam" dedicated to our dear master Guru Sri VS Ramamoorthy.

Link in bio 🙏😀

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Personal life:

Manjula married Ramaswamy Ayyar at the age of 21, and the couple have two daughters. She lives in Hyderabad now.

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Career:

Manjula became a dance teacher at the age of ten. Together with her father V.S. Ramamurthy, Manjula started a dance academy called Sri Rama Natak Niketan in Hyderabad. She is the director of the institution now. As a Bharatanatyam teacher, she has trained more than 3000 students.

Her dance production, Deepa Tarangini, performed on brass plates and upside-down clay pots, holding small brass pots on their heads and holding lit candles in their hands, is notable. The Sri Rama Natak Niketan institute has been performing Deepa Tarangini since 1980.

Manjula is an empanelled bharathanatyam artist of Indian Council for Cultural Relations.



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Awards and honours:


Manjula Ramaswamy with her father V.S. Ramamoorthy

Manjula Ramaswamy is a recipient of the Ugadi Puraskar from the Andhra Pradesh government and the Nritya Kalasagar Puraskar from Kalasagar. The Sangeet Natak Akademi has honoured Manjula Ramaswamy with the 2022 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contributions to Bharatanatyam.

Bharatanatyam guru Manjula Ramaswamy receives Sangeet Natak Akademi award from President Droupadi Murmu on March 6, 2024

Veteran Bharatanatyam guru Manjula Ramaswamy has been conferred with the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for 2022-23 for her contribution to Bharatanatyam. The 66-year-old dancer and the director of Hyderabad-based dance institute Sri Rama Nataka Niketan was honoured by President Droupadi Murmu on March 6, 2024, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.

A lot of people who watched a video that went viral of guru Manjula Ramaswamy teaching Bharatanatyam to her students thought she was a formidable and strict person. The reality is quite different. Ask her about her strict ways of teaching, and she just laughs it off, clarifying that she is only strict when it comes to dancing which is divine and must be done properly. The lady is more than just a guru to her students she is almost like a grandmother to them. Whether they have issues to personal life or professional dancing, she is there when they need her.

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