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{{short description|Indian classical dancer from Bangladesh (born 1979)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Benazir Salam
| image = Benazir Salam.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1979|1|17}}
| birth_place = [[Rajshahi]], [[Bangladesh]]
| occupation = [[Dancer]], dance teacher
| yearsactive = 1983 – present
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Dewan Abdullah Zaman]]|1996}}
| parents = [[Md. Abdus Salam]] <br /> [[Kohinoor Salam]]
| othername = Sumi
}}
[[File:Benazir Salam2.JPG|thumb|Benazir Salam]]
'''Benazir Salam''' is an [[Indian classical dance]]r from [[Bangladesh]].

== Career ==
Benazir is the daughter of Md. Abdus Salam and Kohinoor Salam. She began her dance career at the dance school of ''Abdul Hasib Panna'' called ''Nikkon Shilpi Goshthi'' in 1983 in [[Rajshahi]], [[Bangladesh]]. She was considered the national child of the years 1986, 1988 and 1989 through a competition organized by the [[Shishu Academy]] of [[Bangladesh]]. In those competitions she performed [[Kathak]], [[Bharatanatyam]], [[Modern Dance]] and [[Folk Dance]]. She was awarded gold medals in [[Manipuri dance]], Modern Dance and Katthak Dance in Dhaka Junior Art and Music Festival 1988, sponsored by [[British Council]] and [[ANZ Grindlays Bank]]. She won the first Prize in Classical Dance (Katthak) in the National Education Week, [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh in 1990. She also won [[UNESCO]] Clubs Cultural Award, Bangladesh in the same year.

She received a scholarship from the [[Indian Council for Cultural Relations]]<ref>http://www.iccrindia.org/</ref> (ICCR) for her undergraduate (honors) degree in [[Odissi]] from [[Rabindra Bharati University]] between 1996 and 1999. She secured the first position among her class and received the university gold medal. Benazir subsequently completed her masters in Odissi dance from the university securing the first position and the gold medal. During her stay at the university, she was a disciple of renowned dancer Muralidhar Majhi and Poushali Mukherjee.

Currently she teaches Odissi dance at her own school in Bangladesh, ''Nupur''.<ref>{{cite news | last=Deepita | first=Novera | title=Benazir: a Promising Odissi Dancer |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/01/30/d50130140295.htm | newspaper=The Daily Star | date=30 January 2005 | access-date=10 September 2008}}</ref> She also is a dance teacher at Bangladesh Shishu Academy in [[Dhaka]].<ref>"Alumni/Data Bank of ICCR Scholarship holders from Bangladesh." Accessed 10 September 2008 [http://www.hcidhaka.org/ICCR%20SCHOLAR%20ALUMNI%20DATA.doc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172842/http://www.hcidhaka.org/ICCR%20SCHOLAR%20ALUMNI%20DATA.doc |date=3 March 2016 }}.</ref>

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1979 births]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi female dancers]]
[[Category:Dance teachers]]
[[Category:Rabindra Bharati University alumni]]
[[Category:Odissi dancers]]
[[Category:Performers of Indian classical dance]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi choreographers]]

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