Shakhsiyat with Saroja Vaidyanathan

Join us in this episode of Shakhsiyat with renowned choreographer and exponent of Bharatanatyam - Saroja Vaidyanathan.
Born in Bellary, Karnataka in 1937, she received her initial training in Bharatanatyam at the Saraswati Gana Nilayam in Chennai and later studied under Guru Kattumannar Muthukumaran Pillai of Thanjavur. She has also studied Carnatic music under Professor P. Sambamoorthy at Madras University and has a D.Litt in dance from the Indira Kala Sangeet Viswavidyalaya, Khairagarh.

Ms. Vaidyanathan is a prolific choreographer and has to her credit ten full length ballets and nearly two thousand individual Bharatanatyam items. She has also published her renditions of Subramania Bharati's songs and poems and some of his works have also been set to dance by her.

Saroja was conferred the Padma Shri in 2002 and the Padma Bhushan in 2013 by the Government of India. She is also the recipient of the Sahitya Kala Parishad Samman of the Government of Delhi, the Kalaimamani title bestowed by the Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Manram and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. She was conferred the title of 'Bharata Kalai Sudar' in 2006.

Anchor: Samina