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Padma Subrahmanyam, is an Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancer. She is also a research scholar, choreographer, teacher, Indologist and author.

Chitra Visweswaran is an Indian Bharata Natyam dancer who runs a dance school, the Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts, in Chennai. She was awarded the Padma Shri, one of the top civilian honours given by the Government of India, in 1992.

Sudharani Raghupathy is an Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancer. She received Padma Shri in 1988 and Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1984. She is the author of Laghu Bharatam, a handbook for Bharatanatyam Dance. She is the Founder and Trustee of Sree Bharatalaya, Chennai.

Dancer par excellence Vyjayanthi Kashi’s career spans over an impressive spectrum of performance, choreography, teaching, acting, research and organizing. Her works has been featured in several National and International festivals round the globe in around 28 countries.

Leela Samson is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, instructor, writer and actress from India. As a soloist, she is known for her technical virtuosity and has taught Bharatanatyam at Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra in Delhi for many years.

Nirmala Paniker is an Indian Mohiniyattam dancer, choreographer, and teacher, known for her contributions to the preservation and development of the Mohiniyattam dance form.

Sujata Mohapatra is an Indian classical dancer and teacher of Odissi dancing style.

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship recipient (2019), recognised for Dance.

Dancer

Gangadhar Pradhan (10 July 1948 – 10 October 2010) was an Indian Odissi dancer.

Gopika Varma is a Kerala born Mohiniyattam dancer and dance teacher who is settled in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award and Kalaimamani.

Dancer

Jhelum Paranjape is an Indian classical dancer. and exponent of Indian classical Odissi dance. She founded Smitalay, a dance academy located in Mumbai, India.

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship recipient (1992), recognised for Dance.

Madhavi Mudgal is an Indian classical dancer known for her Odissi dance style. She has won several awards, including the Sanskriti Award, 1984, President of India's award of Padma Shri, 1990, the Orissa State Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, 1996, Grande Medaille de la Ville by Govt. of France, 1997, Central Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, 2000, Delhi State Parishad Samman, 2002 and the title of Nritya Choodamani in 2004.

Mithun Shyam is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Bengaluru. He has contributed to social and gender-based themes through classical dance.

Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She founded the Kalapradarshini School of Performing Arts in Chennai and is known for her ballets inspired by the legacy of her father-in-law, the musician Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, and the saint-poet Annamayya.

Raghunath Manet is a French classical musician/music composer and dancer/choreographer, writer, film maker and actor, born in the Union Territory of Puducherry. He is trained in Bharathanatyam and plays the Veena, a Carnatic instrument.

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship recipient (2008), recognised for Dance.

Sharmila Biswas is a leading dancer, choreographer and teacher in the field of Indian Classical Dance form, Odissi. She is recognised for her contribution to Odissi Classical Dance which brought many changes in the content, technique and costumes.

Smitha Rajan is an Indian Mohiniyattam performer from Kerala and granddaughter of the Indian classical dancers Padma Shri Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair and Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma.