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Meenu thakur kuchipudi performance at rashtrapati bhavan
Meenu Thakur (born July 1, 1972) is an Indian Kuchipudi dance exponent, Guru and choreographer. She runs an institution ‘SURAMYA’ for teaching Kuchipudi to young learners in New Delhi. Meenu Thakur is also the culture columnist for the monthly current affairs magazine YOUNG INDIA
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- Meenu thakur kuchipudi performance at rashtrapati bhavan
- Meenu thakur kuchipudi exponent
- Family
- About
- Performances in Indian festivals
- Performances outside India
- Productions
- Suramya
- Awards and achievements
- References
Meenu thakur kuchipudi exponent
Family
Born in 1972 at Saharanpur, UP to an advocate Harswroop Thakur and home-maker Shakuntla, the third of five siblings.
About
Apart from being qualified in Kuchipudi, Meenu learnt Kathak from The Kathak Kendra, Delhi. Meenu has choreographed numerous Kuchipudi programmes and has been actively performing for the last 24 years as a Kuchipudi Artiste.
Meenu has been enrolled as an established artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Festival of India, Ministry of Culture, and has performed outside India through cultural exchanges. She is also an ‘A’ Graded artist of Doordarshan (India's National television network) and undertakes workshops/demonstrations under the aegis of SPIC MACAY (Society for promotion of Indian classical music and culture among youth).
Meenu also holds the record for being the first danseuse to perform in a jail (Tihar Jail, 2014)
Performances in Indian festivals
Khajuraho Festival, Kal Ki Kalakar Festival, Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu), Natyanjali Festival, Konark Festival, Horizon (ICCR) Delhi & Lucknow, Sidhender Jyanti Samaroh (Hyderabad), Pt. Bhatt Smriti Samaroh (Jaipur), Kalakshetra, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Mahabalipuram Festival (Tamil Nadu), Sur Singar Samsad (Mumbai), Nimaad Festival (M.P), Tyagaraja Festival, Delhi International Arts Festival (Delhi), Classical dance and music festival (Goa), Hampi Mahotsava (Hampi), Modhera Dance Festival (Sun Temple, Mehasana, Gujarat) Taj Mahotsava (Agra)
Performances outside India
Bahrain, U.K, Brazil, Serbia, Croatia, South Africa, Re-Union, Zambia, El-Salvador, Panama, Mauritius, Nepal, China, Japan, Canada, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Bhutan, Austria and Hungary.
Productions
Trilokarakshini (2014)
Bhamakalapam in Hindi (2015)
Samarpan-The Saga of Mirabai (2016)
Yashodara-The Sage's Queen (2017)
Navagraha Charitam-The Power of Planets (2017)
Suramya
Suramya, An Institution of Performing Arts for the popularization and learning of Kuchipudi dance was established in 1999. It runs classes in Kuchipudi dance in New Delhi. Meenu Thakur is the Founder Director of SURAMYA. The students of Suramya (disciples of Meenu Thakur) have perfomed in various national festivals/programmes under her guidance. Suramya is empanelled with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, to invite overseas students to learn Kuchipudi in India.