Rukmini Devi Arundale

Quotes

• “I was brought up on Music, and being near Tiruvaiyaru for sometime during childhood , I got several opportunities to listen to great Music.”
• “To be truly Indian one had to be truly international, exhorting them to honour the best in all civilizations and to live it in their daily lives.”
• “That she learned ballet not with the idea of becoming a full-fledged dancer. It was just to train my body and more for the sheer joy of learning something beautiful.”
• “To recreate the temple atmosphere on the urban stage, and thus to facilitate a new kind of seeing that would enable the spiritual revival of the dance.”
• “Dance was really the art of the temple and that her temple theater was built with that purpose in mind. It has many features of the temple , and we have adopted as much as possible all the ideals enshrined in Natyashastra.”
• “We dance with our bodies, but we finally forget them and transform them.”

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Key facts

Born

Rukmani Neelakanta Sastri , ( 1904-02-29 ) 29 February 1904, Madurai , India

Died

24 February 1986 (1986-02-24) (aged 81), Chennai , Tamil Nadu , India

Years active

1920–1986

Spouse

George Arundale ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1920 ) ​

Awards

Padma Bhushan (1956), Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1967)

Constituency

Nominated

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.kalakshetra.in/newsite

Image

Rukmini Devi.jpg

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