Shantala shivalingappa biography of michael

The captivating performer 
speaks multiple dance languages.

Shantala Shivalingappa is a daughter of two worlds.

Born in Madras, India, brought up in Paris, Shantala is the child of east and west.

Shantala Shivalingappa is a graceful and sensitive kuchipudi artist but she is also well-remembered for her charismatic performances in Pina Bausch's work for.

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Inspired by Shiva, Lord of the dance, god with a thousand names, both creator and destructor, Shantala Shivalingappa performs with swift magnetic grace.

Shantala Shivalingappa: Back to Nature.

While the dancer/choreographer is a master of kuchipudi, a highly rhythmic Indian classical dance form, she has also collaborated with contemporary directors and choreographers like Peter Brook and Maurice Béjart, and more recently Ushio Amagatsu of Sankai Juku and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Born in Madras and raised in Paris by a mother who was a bharata natyam dancer (and a friend of Béjart and Pina Bausch), in she began an extended collaboration with Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, creating roles in
O Dido, Nefés, and Bamboo Blues.

In June, she will perform at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, after which she’ll spend a week at Jacob’s Pillow. On both occasions she will present Akasha, her latest evening-length kuchipudi solo.

Writer Marina Harss caught up with her this spring while Shivalingappa was