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Fellowship Awards
Award Senior and Junior Fellowships to deserving
dancers to further enhance their study,
research and choreographic skills.
Award Senior and Junior Fellowships to deserving dancers to further enhance their study, research and choreographic skills. The Junior Fellowship is to encourage dedicated, promising and young students of dance to strive for excellence under the guidance of their gurus. In addition, this Fellowship also extends to those dancers who wish to sharpen their skills, explore possibilities and work with the guidance from their chosen mentors.
The aim of the Senior Fellowship is to extend support to solo classical dancers to choreograph work that is original in concept and intelligent in execution within the classical genre. We believe that commissioning such works will make a significant contribution to the evolving classical repertoire and provide due recognition to artists of merit. The two Fellowships culminate in a performance presented by the Trust for connoisseurs, art enthusiasts and the general public.
Fellowship Award Recipients
K. Sarveshan
Recipient of Junior Fellowship Award, 2021
K Sarveshan is a Bharatanatyam artist of South African Indian origin. His artistic path is one that traverses tradition and diversity, creating a niche for himself as a talented gen-next dancer. His understanding of Bharatanatyam and movement practice is inspired by exemplary Gurus – Savitri Naidoo and Darshana Rama from Cape Town and The Dhananjayans in Chennai.
Awards:
- The Madras Music Academy “Gutty Vasu Endowment Prize” for being the “Best Performer” at the Spirit of Youth Festival 2017
- Bharata Kalanjali “Natya Purna”
- Bharat Kalachar “Yuva Kalaa Bhaarathi”
Sreelakshmy Govardhanan
Recipient of Senior Fellowship Award, 2021
Sreelakshmy Govardhanan is an accomplished Indian classical dancer of Kuchipudi. Based in Kerala, she has made her mark in Kuchipudi by the dint of her immense talent and unrelenting hard work. She is the disciple of Pasumarthy Rattaiha Sarma, a maestro in Kuchipudi Yakshagana. He has been the guiding light in her journey to master the fine traits of the pure form of Kuchipudi.
Sreelakshmy Govardhanan is a creative dancer, choreographer and teacher of Kuchipudi. Her ongoing study includes active research and documenting of Kuchipudi Yakshagana.
Founder and Artistic Director of the Avantika Space for Dance, a centre for learning, performance and research, her dance activity includes workshops, classes, seminars and lecture demonstrations.
