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	'''Chandralekha Prabhudas Patel''' (6 December 1928 – 30 December 2006), commonly known as ~~just~~ '''Chandralekha''', was a dancer and choreographer from [[India]]. The niece of [[Vallabhbhai Patel]], India's first deputy Prime Minister, she was an exponent of performances fusing [[Bharatanatyam]] with [[Yoga]] and martial arts like [[Kalarippayattu]].		'''Chandralekha Prabhudas Patel''' (6 December 1928 – 30 December 2006), commonly known as '''Chandralekha''', was a dancer and choreographer from [[India]]. The niece of [[Vallabhbhai Patel]], India's first deputy Prime Minister, she was an exponent of performances fusing [[Bharatanatyam]] with [[Yoga]] and martial arts like [[Kalarippayattu]].

	She was conferred the highest award of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, the [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows\|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]] in 2004.		She was conferred the highest award of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, the [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows\|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]] in 2004.

	==Early life and education==		==Early life and education==
	She was born to an [[agnostic]] doctor father and a devout [[Hindu]] mother in [[Vada, Palghar\|Vada]], [[Maharashtra]]. She spent her childhood in her native [[Gujarat]] and in Maharashtra.<ref name="Guardian obit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/09/guardianobituaries.india\|title=Chandralekha: Controversial Indian dancer whose ideas challenged convention\|date=9 February 2007\|~~publisher~~=The Guardian\|access-date=30 November 2009 \| location=London}}</ref>		She was born to an [[agnostic]] doctor father and a devout [[Hindu]] mother in [[Vada, Palghar\|Vada]], [[Maharashtra]]. She spent her childhood in her native [[Gujarat]] and in Maharashtra.<ref name="Guardian obit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/09/guardianobituaries.india\|title=Chandralekha: Controversial Indian dancer whose ideas challenged convention\|date=9 February 2007\|work=The Guardian\|access-date=30 November 2009 \| location=London}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==
	After completing high school, Chandralekha studied law, but quit her studies midway to learn dance instead. She started with [[Dasi Attam]], a form of dance practiced by temple dancers in southern India, under the tutelage of [[Ellappa Pillai]]. She was also influenced by [[Balasaraswati]] and [[Rukmini Devi Arundale]] in her dance education, but her choreography shows that she was more influenced by the former.<ref name="Guardian obit" /><ref>{{Cite web\|orig-date=May 15, 1985\|date=March 13, 2014\|first1=Sunil \|last1=Kothari \|first2=Coomi \|last2=Kapoor\|title=Danseuse-feminist Chandralekha: The doyenne of thinkers in Indian dance\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19850515-danseuse-feminist-chandralekha-the-doyenne-of-thinkers-in-indian-dance-770024-2013-12-09\|access-date=2020-11-05\|website=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> Although Chandralekha received her early training in [[Bharatanatyam]], she went on to change her focus to postmodern fusion dances that incorporated elements from other dances, martial arts like [[Kalarippayattu]], and performing arts.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07chandralekha.html\|title=Chandralekha, 79, Dancer Who Blended Indian Forms, Dies\|date=7 January 2007\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]\|access-date=30 November 2009 \| first=Jennifer \| last=Dunning}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68457787.html?dids=68457787:68457787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+21%2C+1998&author=Clive+Barnes&pub=New+York+Post&desc=HANDSOME+%27RAGA%27-BAG+OF+THESES&pqatl=google\|title=Handsome 'Raga'-Bag of Theses\|date=21 November 1998\|newspaper=[[New York Post]]\|access-date=30 November 2009 \| first=Clive \| last=Barnes}}</ref>		After completing high school, Chandralekha studied law, but quit her studies midway to learn dance instead. She started with [[Dasi Attam]], a form of dance practiced by temple dancers in southern India, under the tutelage of [[Ellappa Pillai]]. She was also influenced by [[Balasaraswati]] and [[Rukmini Devi Arundale]] in her dance education, but her choreography shows that she was more influenced by the former.<ref name="Guardian obit" /><ref>{{Cite web\|orig-date=May 15, 1985\|date=March 13, 2014\|first1=Sunil \|last1=Kothari \|first2=Coomi \|last2=Kapoor\|author-link2=Coomi Kapoor\|title=Danseuse-feminist Chandralekha: The doyenne of thinkers in Indian dance\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19850515-danseuse-feminist-chandralekha-the-doyenne-of-thinkers-in-indian-dance-770024-2013-12-09\|access-date=2020-11-05\|website=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> Although Chandralekha received her early training in [[Bharatanatyam]], she went on to change her focus to postmodern fusion dances that incorporated elements from other dances, martial arts like [[Kalarippayattu]], and performing arts.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07chandralekha.html\|title=Chandralekha, 79, Dancer Who Blended Indian Forms, Dies\|date=7 January 2007\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]\|access-date=30 November 2009 \| first=Jennifer \| last=Dunning}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68457787.html?dids=68457787:68457787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+21%2C+1998&author=Clive+Barnes&pub=New+York+Post&desc=HANDSOME+%27RAGA%27-BAG+OF+THESES&pqatl=google\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721070127/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68457787.html?dids=68457787:68457787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+21,+1998&author=Clive+Barnes&pub=New+York+Post&desc=HANDSOME+'RAGA'-BAG+OF+THESES&pqatl=google\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=21 July 2012\|title=Handsome 'Raga'-Bag of Theses\|date=21 November 1998\|newspaper=[[New York Post]]\|access-date=30 November 2009 \| first=Clive \| last=Barnes}}</ref> Her essay 'Militant Origins of Indian Dance', originally published in ''Social Scientist'' in 1979,<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Chandralekha \|title=Militant Origins of Indian Dance \|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/socialscientist/pager.html?objectid=HN681.S597_98-99_003.gif \|journal=Social Scientist \|date=1980 \|volume=9 \|issue=98–99 \|pages=80–86 \|doi=10.2307/3516927 \|jstor=3516927 \|via=Digital South Asia Library\|url-access=subscription }}</ref> was later reprinted in the volume ''Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance'', part of the India Since the 90s series published by [[Tulika Books]].

	==Awards and recognition==		==Awards and recognition==
	* 1991: [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]: Creative Dance		* 1991: [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]: Creative Dance
	* 2003-2004: [[Kalidas Samman]]<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/10/19/stories/2003101900711100.htm\|title='Kalidas Samman' for Chandralekha\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|date=19 October 2003\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204084001/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/10/19/stories/2003101900711100.htm\|archive-date=4 February 2008\|url-status=~~dead~~}}</ref>		* 2003-2004: [[Kalidas Samman]]<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/10/19/stories/2003101900711100.htm\|title='Kalidas Samman' for Chandralekha\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|date=19 October 2003\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204084001/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/10/19/stories/2003101900711100.htm\|archive-date=4 February 2008\|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
	* 2004: [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows\|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web\|title= Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Sadasya (Fellowship)\|url= http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm\|publisher= [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]]\|access-date= 1 December 2009\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110727235210/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm\|archive-date= 27 July 2011\|url-status= dead}}</ref>		* 2004: [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows\|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web\|title= Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Sadasya (Fellowship)\|url= http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm\|publisher= [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]]\|access-date= 1 December 2009\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110727235210/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm\|archive-date= 27 July 2011\|url-status= dead}}</ref>

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	== Bibliography ==		== Bibliography ==
	Rustom Barucha. ''Chandralekha: Woman, Dance, Resistance.'' Indus. New Delhi: 1995. {{ISBN\|81-7223-168-7}}		* Rustom Barucha. ''Chandralekha: Woman, Dance, Resistance.'' Indus. New Delhi: 1995. {{ISBN\|81-7223-168-7}}

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{{Infobox dancer
| name = Chandralekha
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1928|12|06}}
| birth_place = [[Vada, Palghar|Vada]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2006|12|30|1928|12|06}}
| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[India]]
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'''Chandralekha Prabhudas Patel''' (6 December 1928 – 30 December 2006), commonly known as just '''Chandralekha''', was a dancer and choreographer from [[India]]. The niece of [[Vallabhbhai Patel]], India's first deputy Prime Minister, she was an exponent of performances fusing [[Bharatanatyam]] with [[Yoga]] and martial arts like [[Kalarippayattu]].

She was conferred the highest award of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, the [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]] in 2004.

==Early life and education==
She was born to an [[agnostic]] doctor father and a devout [[Hindu]] mother in [[Vada, Palghar|Vada]], [[Maharashtra]]. She spent her childhood in her native [[Gujarat]] and in Maharashtra.<ref name="Guardian obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/09/guardianobituaries.india|title=Chandralekha: Controversial Indian dancer whose ideas challenged convention|date=9 February 2007|publisher=The Guardian|access-date=30 November 2009 | location=London}}</ref>

==Career==
After completing high school, Chandralekha studied law, but quit her studies midway to learn dance instead. She started with [[Dasi Attam]], a form of dance practiced by temple dancers in southern India, under the tutelage of [[Ellappa Pillai]]. She was also influenced by [[Balasaraswati]] and [[Rukmini Devi Arundale]] in her dance education, but her choreography shows that she was more influenced by the former.<ref name="Guardian obit" /><ref>{{Cite web|orig-date=May 15, 1985|date=March 13, 2014|first1=Sunil |last1=Kothari |first2=Coomi |last2=Kapoor|title=Danseuse-feminist Chandralekha: The doyenne of thinkers in Indian dance|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19850515-danseuse-feminist-chandralekha-the-doyenne-of-thinkers-in-indian-dance-770024-2013-12-09|access-date=2020-11-05|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> Although Chandralekha received her early training in [[Bharatanatyam]], she went on to change her focus to postmodern fusion dances that incorporated elements from other dances, martial arts like [[Kalarippayattu]], and performing arts.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07chandralekha.html|title=Chandralekha, 79, Dancer Who Blended Indian Forms, Dies|date=7 January 2007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=30 November 2009 | first=Jennifer | last=Dunning}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68457787.html?dids=68457787:68457787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+21%2C+1998&author=Clive+Barnes&pub=New+York+Post&desc=HANDSOME+%27RAGA%27-BAG+OF+THESES&pqatl=google|title=Handsome 'Raga'-Bag of Theses|date=21 November 1998|newspaper=[[New York Post]]|access-date=30 November 2009 | first=Clive | last=Barnes}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
* 1991: [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]: Creative Dance
* 2003-2004: [[Kalidas Samman]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/10/19/stories/2003101900711100.htm|title='Kalidas Samman' for Chandralekha|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=19 October 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204084001/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/10/19/stories/2003101900711100.htm|archive-date=4 February 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2004: [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]]<ref>{{cite web|title= Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Sadasya (Fellowship)|url= http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm|publisher= [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]]|access-date= 1 December 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110727235210/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/fellowslist.htm|archive-date= 27 July 2011|url-status= dead}}</ref>

==References==
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== Bibliography ==
Rustom Barucha. ''Chandralekha: Woman, Dance, Resistance.'' Indus. New Delhi: 1995. {{ISBN|81-7223-168-7}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120406070204/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/chandralekha-group?ref=artist&refcar=%2Fartist%2Fc-d Archive film of Chandralekha performing Yanta in 1994 at Jacob's Pillow]

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