Dr. Neena Prasad

Dr. Neena Prasad

Dr. Neena Prasad has undergone training in dance as follows:

Style                  Guru

Mohini Atttam   Kalamandalam Sugandhi,

                     Kalamandalam Kshemavathy

Bharatanatyam Adyar K.Lakshman

Kuchipudi         Vempatti Chinna Satyam

Kathakali          Vembayam Appukuttan Pillai

She has given performances in India and abroad in most of the art festivals. She has choreographed solo and group productions. Some of her productions are Seethayanam, Pon Pulari, Kavyanarthaki, KrishnaBhakthi, Amrapali, Urmila, Sakuntala and Thouryatrikam. She is a member of several art committees. 

She has received a Doctorate from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta for her thesis on “The concepts of Lasya and Tandava in the Classical dances of South India.” She has received a post doctoral fellowship from the University of Surrey, UK, for her research on Post Colonial Identity Construction. She has presented papers on dance. She established her dance school Bharatanjali in 1995 in Thiruvananthapuram and the Sougandhika Centre for Mohini Attam in 2003 in Chennai.

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