With precision and sparkling grace, Ananda Shankar Jayant performs and teaches the classical dance styles of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi.
Why you should listen to her:
Ananda Shankar Jayant is trained in two traditional forms of classical Indian dance, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Both forms require long training and precise timing to express their essence -- and both forms, in Shankar Jayant's hands, are capable of exploring deep truths.
As a choreographer and performer, she uses dance to talk about gender issues (as in 1999's What About Me?), mythology and philosophy, setting these carefully handed-down forms of dance onto a modern stage. She leads the Shankarananda Kalakshetra school in Hyderabad and Secunderabad, and is a scholar of dance and art, lecturing frequently on both throughout India.
"My language called dance paints before you a canvas of life and beyond -- of our fallible self groping in the darkness for that light of eternity."Ananda Shankar Jayant
Quotes by Ananda Shankar Jayant
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“Cancer’s only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.”
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“How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?”
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“I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.”
