Kapila Venu

Kapila Venu (born 1983)[1] is a practitioner of Kutiyattam and a disciple of the Kutiyattam maestro Guru Ammannur Madhava Chakyar. She is being mentored by Kutiyattam exponent and actor trainer Gopalan Nair Venu, also known as G Venu, who is also her father. She has also trained under Usha Nangiar and Kitangur C N Rama Chakyar in Kutiyattam, Nirmala Paniker, her mother, in Mohiniyattam and studied under the guidance of Japanese Farmer/Dancer Min Tanaka in Japan.

Koodiyattam (Kutiyattam) performer Kapila Venu

Kapila venu

Awards
  • Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar’(2006) for upcoming Artistes from Sangeet Natak Akademi(National Akademi for Arts, Govt. of India)[2]
  • Sanskriti Award from Sanskriti Pratisthan – 2010[3]
gollark: Remove... water?
gollark: I'm pretty sure you'd have to do something inelegant and hacky like that to stop rainbows anyway.
gollark: Just manually disassemble the relevant clouds or something.
gollark: Of course not. They simply never had any rain beforehand.
gollark: This could be the basis for a whole new political compass.

References
  1. "Kapila Venu ,30 year old interview". Hindu. 2013.
  2. "Koodiyattam's prima ballerina - The Asian Age".
  3. Vidyarthi, Nita (24 January 2013). "A life less ordinary" – via www.thehindu.com.

Sources

_"Magnificent!". 16 January 2009 – via www.thehindu.com.

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