Prateeksha Kashi

Prateeksha Kashi
Kashi performing Kuchipudi Dance in Pattambi, Palakkad District In Kerala On 2016 Jan 17
Born	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Dancer; Actress
Website	www.prateekshakashi.com
Dances	Kuchipudi

Prateeksha Kashi performing in Odukathur Mutt Hall, Bangalore,2013 [Courtesy:Anjali Reddy J

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Prateeksha Kashi performing at Rasa Sanje, ADA Rangamandira, Bangalore, 2013 [Courtesy:Anjali Reddy J

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Prateeksha Kashi is an Indian Kuchipudi dancer. She is from the family of Dr. Gubbi Veeranna^[1] and was initiated to dance at the age of five. Ever since she has been trained in Kuchipudi, a classical dance form of Andhra Pradesh, under the guidance of her mother and Guru Smt. Vyjayanthi Kashi,^[2][3] who is a noted kuchipudi dancer, a celebrated performer and choreographer, and artistic director of the Shambhavi School of Dance.^[4] Vyjayanthi Kashi is also the present chairperson of Karnataka Sangeetha Nritya Academy^[5][6]

Kashi is a Computer Science Engineer.^[7] Her passion extends beyond dance to acting, teaching, organizing and Nattuvangam, the art of conducting a classical Indian dance recital, which addresses the Laya or sense of rhythm, a very important aspect of Indian classical dance. With a keen interest in spreading Kuchipudi and to inspire the youth towards it, she coaches aspiring dancers in Bangalore.

In an interview to KnowYourStar,^[8] Prateeksha Kashi was quoted saying how technology has benefited the art-"In a way the tech side of me is still very relevant and comes a long way in my career as a dancer. I feel it is very important to be tech savvy and leverage the potential that technology offers; may it be to reach out wider, learn, or even implement ideas to enhance the quality of performance in terms of music, lighting, media and more. Tech revolution in India has always favoured art!".

Life and career

Prateeksha Kashi, was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India to an artistic family. She is the daughter of the Kuchipudi dancer, Vyjayanthi Kashi.^[9] and Vijaya Kashi, who is a television and theatre artist.

As a child, it is said that Kashi sang and danced the whole of the dance drama AMBE from the Mahabharata when she was just three years old. In fact, her stage debut at the age of five occurred when she ran onto the stage when her mother was performing at the Ramana Maharshi's Institute and started dancing in synchrony with the senior dancers of Shambhavi School of Dance next to whom she was only knee high.^[10] Since then, she has been trained in Kuchipudi under the guidance of her mother and Guru Smt. Vyjayanthi Kashi. At the age of thirteen, Prateeksha topped the state in the Kuchipudi dance exams with a distinction.^[11] Prateeksha Kashi Excelled in her studies as well. She got a gold medal for securing top rank in computer science in her Engineering College.^[12][13]

Prateeksha Kashi did her Rangapooja on 20 February 2009, and since then she has been recognized as the "Rising Star".^[14]

Prateeksha Kashi performing "Navarasa" with her Mother and Guru Vyjayanthi Kashi, 2012 [Courtesy: Anjali Reddy J

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Notable performances

Prateeksha Kashi performed in so many Prestigious Indian dance festivals including

• Unbound Beats of India-New Delhi
• Ananya-New Delhi
• Rain Drops -Mumbai ^[15]
• Jayasmriti-Mumbai
• Ankur Utsav-Kolkatta
• Dover’s Lane-Kolkatta
• Konark Utsav-Orissa
• Devdasi-Orissa
• Natarani-Ahmedabad
• Dharani Utsav-Cochin
• Kinkini Mahotsav-Bangalore

Prateeksha Kashi playing Lord Krishna in "PARAMPARA"

• Mysore Dasara Utsav-Mysore
• Antarjatika Nrutya Sangeet Samaroha 2012, Cuttack^[16]
• Prativa Festval, Kolkata
• Tanisha Yuva Utsav, Kuchipudi, Andhra Pradesh
• MAHA MAAYA, Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore.^[17][18]
• Rasa Sanje, ADA Rangamandira, Bangalore
• Nrityabharath Dance Festival, Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore
• Kalabharathi National Young Dance Fest 2013, Thrissur, Kerala^[19][20]
• World Dance Day 2013 in Alliance Francaise, Bangalore^[21][22]
• World Dance Day 2013 in Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai^[23][24][25]
• Summer Festival 2013, Coonor, Ooty, Tamil Nadu^[26]
• Kuchipudi Recital in Brihadeeswara Temple 2013, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu.
• Solo Kuchipudi Recital in Veena Sheshanna Bhavana, Mysore
• Essence of Life in Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore^{[27][28][29][30]}
• Essence of Life at Vivanta by Taj, Hyderabad.^[31][32]
• Natya Mahotsav-Kittappa Pillai Centenary Celebrations, Ravindra Bhavan, Goa ^[33]
• Pallaki Seva Prabandhamu(A Dance Opera), Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai ^[34]
• Annual Dance Festival of Music Academy, Chennai ^[35]
• Nayika-Excellence Personified- A Kuchipudi & Bharathanatyam duet performance by Prateeksha Kashi with Rukmini Vijayakumar^[36]
• Feel India, a cultural extravaganca, The Ashok Amphitheatre, New Delhi^[37]
• Natya Vriksha Young Dancers Festival, Natya Vriksha in collaboration with UNESCO, Sangeet Natak Akademi and Ministry of Culture, celebrates World Dance Day^[38]
• Soorya Music and Dance Festival, Trivandrum, Kerala^[39]
• Nishagandhi Dance Festival 2016, Trivandrum, Kerala

Overseas Performances & Workshops

• US & CANADA Tour for Kuchipudi Performances and Workshops^[40]
• Kuchipudi Faculty at Dance India-Milapfest 2014, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool^[41]
• Mahotsav 2014, Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan, London^[42]
• Festivals of India 2014 India-China Year of Friendly Exchange, China ^{[43][44][45][46][47]}
• Sydney Dance Festival of Indian Classical Dances by Madhuram Academy of Performing Arts & Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan, Australia.^[48][49][50]
• Dance India 2012 – Milap Festival – UK ^[51]
• 1st International Kannada Convention – USA
• Music & Dance Festival - Italy

Major achievements

• Lead the Kuchipudi Dance Group tour to Africa sponsored by ICCR.^[52][53]

• One among the 100 Youth Delegates selected by Government of India as a part of India-China Year of Friendly Exchanges 2014^[54]
• Grade 'A' Artist of Doordarshan, (Broadcasting Media) Bangalore ^[55]
• 1st Rank in Junior Kuchipudi Dance Examination conducted by (Govt. of Karnataka)
• Worked as an assistant tutor at the Milap International Dance Summer School, UK^[56]
• Participated in the International Kuchipudi Convention, Hyderabad
• Played the lead role as Akkamahadevi in the telefilm " Hejje Guruthugalu" ^[57]
• Playing the lead role as Mohini in a Kannada Serial "Kadambari Kanaja" telecasted in Udaya TV
• Released a Kuchipudi Dance DVD named "The Magic of Kuchipudi" aiming to spread the dance form widely.
• Acted in a Film "Prakruthi" which received NATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY^[58]

Awards and honors

Prateeksha Kashi recently got selected for Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar award by Central Sangeeth Natak Akademi, Newdelhi. Prateeksha was honored with Aditya Vikram Birla Kalakiran Puraskar-2014 in the field of dance by the Government of Maharashtra.^[59][60][61] She was honored with the 37th annual Aryabhata International Award-2011 for excellence in Kuchipudi.^[62] She has the titles of Nalanda Nritya Nipuna, instituted by the renowned Nalanda Dance Research Centre ^[63] and Nritya Jyoti, awarded at the Naveen Kalakar to her credits.^[64]

Apart from the above-mentioned awards she was the Winner of the Dance competition conducted by Pandit Jasraj’s Foundation at New York^[65] and also Recipient of the prestigious scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, Govt of India ^[66] Prateeksha kashi Received "Young Dancer" award from Sanjali School of Odissi as a part of PRAVAHA 2013.^[67][68] In 2014, Ms. Kashi Received Kalabharathi National Young Talent Award/Kalabharathi Yuva Nrutha Pratibha Award, Naatyavedha Award 2014 as a part of "Jathis Music and Dance Festival"

Film, television and theatre

Prateeksha Kashi is going to play the female lead role in Priyamanasam, A Sanskrit Movie based on Malayalam Poet Unnayi Variyar. As per the news it is going to be the third Sanskrit movie being produced after 22 Years in India.^{[69][70][71][72][73][74]} Priyamanasam Movie got the honour to be the inaugural movie in the International Film Festival of India, Goa^[75][76]

Prateeksha also has the credit of being featured in many dance productions for the television media and is a graded artist of the Doordarshan Kendra. She is now dancing and playing prominent roles in almost all the dance dramas with her seniors for many national dance festivals.^[77][78] Prateeksha is an empanelled artist of ICCR, Govt. of India. She acted in a Kannada film Prakruthi which won the National Award for Adaptive Screenplay for the year 2013 and also special jury award in the Bangalore International Film Festival-2014^[79]

Hailed from such an artistic family prateeksha kashi showed her talent in acting as well. She played the lead role "Mohini" in a Kannada serial named Kaadambari Kanaja which is getting telecasted in Udaya TV(Kannada).^[80][81][82]

She acted in telefilms including Hejjegurthugalu, which features her in the lead role Akkamahadevi.^[83] Along with her Mother Vyjayanthi Kashi, she acted in Mathana - a confluence of Drama and Dance, which got good reviews on her acting. Prateeksha Kashi acted in a short film series on social awareness named "Dwar"- Door For Transformation produced by KnowYourStar & Ravin Productions.^[84]

Productions

Shambhavi Dance Theatre produced a dance DVD "The Magic of Kuchipudi" featuring Prateeksha Kashi.The dance DVD got released by Padmabhushan Dr. Yamini Krishnamurthy as a part of "Nayika-Excellence Personified" which is organised on the occasion of Woman's Day on 8 March 2014 in Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan, Bangalore.^[85] The Main Motto of producing this dance DVD is spreading of dance form kuchipudi as a Parampara to the younger generation, says Smt. Vyjayanthi Kashi, who is the artistic director of Shambhavi.

Prateeksha Kashi played the role of Madhavi, a courtesan in dance production "Cilapathikaram" for which she got laurels from critics.^[86]

"Essence of Life" is the brain child of Dega Dev Kumar Reddy, who is a producer of south Indian films and a follower of spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishna Murthy Garu. In this production they want to spread the teachings of JK through the five different traditional art forms including kuchipudi with other four forms. Prateeksha Kashi has been chosen to choreograph and present the teachings of JK in this multimedia production "Essence of Life". She contributed in this creative work by choreographing and performing on a concept "Can We Live Without Problems".^[87] She performed recently in Music Academy, Chennai ^{[88] [89]} and also in Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore.^{[90][91][92][93]} Prateeksha Kashi recently gave her performance in Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad as a part of Essence of life and DVD's and Audio CD's of this creative project got released.^{[94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102]}

Essence of Life
Prateeksha Kashi in "Essence of Life"  Prateeksha Kashi did the Choreography for Jiddu Krisha Murthy's concept "Can We Live Without Problems" as a part of Essence of Life!

The Magic of Kuchipudi dance DVD featuring Prateeksha Kashi produced by Shambhavi Dance Theatre released by Renowned Dansuse Padmabhushan Dr. Yamini Krishnamurthy as a part of Nayika-Excellence Personified on the occasion of Woman's Day on 8 March 2014!!!

Interviews

Dancer Who Loves Acting - The Hindu ^[103]

Kuchipudi Dancer Wins Birla Award- The New Indian Express ^[104][105]

Dancing her Way to Films ^[106]

Interview with OzIndian TV Show, Sydney, Australia

Interview with KnowYourStar - ^[107]

Interview with "Deccan Chronicle" - ^[108]

Interview with "The Hindu" - Bangalore Edition ^[109]

Interview with "The Hindu" - Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Edition ^{[110][111][112]}

Interview with NewIndianExpress^[113]

Webindia123 ^[114]

Manipalblog.com/Virtually There V7 ^[115]

Reviews

Kashi has been discussed in

When Nishagandhi Bloomed - The Hindu[116] Capitivating Abhinaya - Times of India[117] The Hindu-Display of skill and aesthetics[118] Telegraph India[119] Narthaki.com[120] Review - "Kinkini Utsav"[121] Report - "Perfection redefined"[122] The Hindu - "Immaculate presentation"[123]       "Feats of grace, skill"[124]

Dance review [125] Dance review [126] Dance review [127] Dance review [128] Deccan Herald[129] An invocation to the divine.[130]

• A Gift worth the waist given by her dancer mother ^[131]
• A Pure Beginning-Sydney Dance Festival^[132]

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External links

• Official website

Movies

• Prateeksha Kashi Art based Movie "Prakruthi"

Interviews

• Interview with Oz Indian TV Show, Sydney, Australia
• Interview with Sdhwaney, Sydney, Australia
• Prateeksha Kashi interview in Essence of Life Press meet Bangalore
• Prateeksha Kashi interview during EOL DVD Launch

The Magic of Kuchipudi- Dance DVD trailer

• The Magic of Kuchipudi, Trailer of Dance DVD

Awards

• Prateeksha Kashi Receiving Aryabhatta International Award
• Prateeksha Kashi Receiving Young Dancer's Award

Serial's & Shortfilms

• Prateeksha Kashi in Kaadambari Kanaja Serial, Udaya TV
• Aigiri Nandhini Performance in Udaya TV
• Western Dance by Prateeksha Kashi
• Ms.kashi Kadambari kanaja Team in Super Kutumba
• Super Kutumba, Udaya TV
• Prateeksha Kashi in Super Kutumba, Udaya TV
• Akkamahadevi Hejjeguruthugalu
• Dwar-Door for Transformation

Performance videos

• Prateeksha Kashi in Essence of Life Press meet in Tajvivanta, Hyderabad
• Press meet of EOL team in Bangalore
• Essence of Life DVD Launch
• Kalabharathi National Young Dance Fest 2013, Thrissur, Kerala
• Rasa Sanje, ADA Rangamandira, Bangalore
• MAHA MAAYA, Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore
• Tanisha Dance Festival,Kuchipudi Village, Andhrapradesh
• Nrityabharath Dance Festival,Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore
• Music & Dance Feastival
• Kuchipudi Sambrama, Bangalore
• Bangalore Habba, Bangalore
• Kuchipudi Vaibhavam, Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha, Bangalore
• Kuchipudi Recital, Natarani, Ahmedabad
• Ankur Dance Festival, Kolkata
• Kuchipudi Recital, Bangalore

Dance Workshops

• Kuchipudi Recital, New York
• Workshop & performance in Italy