Sivanandam Pillai
Sivanandam Pillai
Rukmini Devi Arundale
Chennai, India
20 students ↓
K. P. Kittappa Pillai
Thanjavur, India
36 students ↓
Ram Gopal
Bangalore, India
6 students ↓
K.J. Govindarajan
Delhi, India
28 students ↓
Pandanallur Chokkalingam Pillai
Chennai, India
5 students ↓
Baroda Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar
Vadodara, India
13 students ↓
Karaikkal Dandayudhapani Pillai
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Pichaiyya Pillai
Thanjavur, India
3 students ↓
Adyar K Lakshman
Chennai, India
18 students ↓
C.V. Chandrasekhar
Chennai, India
9 students ↓
Leela Samson
Chennai, India
15 students ↓
Chandu Panikkar
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Khagendranath Barman
Kolkata, India
9 students ↓
Sarada Hoffman
Chennai, India
8 students ↓
Shanta Dhananjayan
Chennai, India
5 students ↓
Kamala Rani
Long Island, New York, India
4 students ↓
Ramli Ibrahim
Kulalumpur, Malaysia
16 students ↓
Dr Chandrabhanu
Melbourne, Australia
13 students ↓
Mavin Khoo
London, United Kingdom
13 students ↓
C.P. Shanta
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Roja Kannan
Chennai, India
7 students ↓
Ambika N.
Chennai, India
5 students ↓
Jayanthi Subramaniam
Chennai, India
2 students ↓
M.S. Ramadevi
Secunderabad, India
2 students ↓
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Lineage Stats
Lineage Overview
- ✦This lineage spreads across 21 countries.
- ✦Bharatanatyam is the primary style.
- ✦Avg. 208.7 students per direct shishya.
- ✦This lineage is 7 generations deep.
🪔 About
One of the four brothers of the Tanjore Quartet, who shaped the modern Bharatanatyam Margam. The brothers studied music under Muthuswami Dikshitar. (Distinct from the 20th-century T. K. P. Sivanandam.)
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