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Kalakshetra moved to its present location in the 1960s. Despite an acute shortage of funds, Rukmini Devi managed to build simple classrooms and hostels to continue her life’s work. Such was her dedication and clarity that when, in 1977, the then Prime Minister Moraji Desai, nominated her to become the President of India, she immediately ...
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In September 1937, just one year after the founding of Kalakshetra, assisted by a grant from the government, Rukmini Devi set up a Weaving Centre with one loom in a thatched shed. It was part of her holistic and ambitious vision to preserve and revive a tradition that had withered under British rule.
G. Sundari: Before it became the Kalakshetra Foundation it was the Besant Cultural Centre and the first institution to be started there was the Besant Memorial High School, because Annie Besant before she died, she told Dr. Arundale, Rukmini Devi’s husband, who was the third President of the Theosophical Society, that she would like a school ...
Rukmini Devi Arundale was an Indian classical dancer and follower of theosophy, best known for catalyzing the renaissance of the bharata natyam dance form and founding the Kalakshetra Foundation in Madras (now Chennai). The foundation aimed to preserve and popularize bharata natyam and other Indian.
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Kalakshetra was founded in 1936 by Rukmini Devi Arundale (see Fig-ure 1) as a "cultural academy for the preservation of traditional values in Indian art, especially in the field of dance and music."1 Part of the Kalak-shetra mission has been "to ensure that the principles of education without fear and art without vulgarity are adhered to in the ...
Kalakshetra, as the name suggests, is a centre for artistic endeavour. Founded in 1936 by the vibrant visionary Rukmini Devi Arundale, the Institution stands testimony to her dream of creating a space where the essence of Indian thought would find expression through artistic education.
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Feb 15, 2019 · Kalakshetra: Origin Story. Influenced by her husband, a theosophist, George Arundale, and a Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, Rukmini Devi decided to revive and indeed rescue the traditional arts and crafts and make them respectable and accessible to Indians and their (at that time) British masters.
