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| occupation = dancer, dance instructor and choreographer
| years_active =1989-present
| dances = [[Bharatanatyam]]
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'''Justin McCarthy''' (born 1957) is an American-born noted [[India]]n [[Bharatnatyam]] dancer, instructor and choreographer. He teaches Bharatnatyam at the [[Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra]] at [[Delhi]], where he has been for the last three decades.<ref name="out">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?261314|title=Same Difference: An Indian of American origin wages several battles to acquire his cherished citizenship|date=Aug 24, 2009|magazine=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook (magazine)]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990227/ige27102.html|title=I want to juxtapose the real energy of Punjab with dance|date=February 27, 1999|work=Indian Express}}</ref> He moved to India in 1979, learnt Bharatanatyam from danseuse [[Leela Samson]] for ten years, before beginning to teach it at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra at Delhi, where he has teaching ever since. Prior to this he received his early training at the Dance School of Berkeley, and later trained under Subbaraya Pillai, a leading Guru of the [[Pandanallur style]] of Bharatanatyam at Chennai. He is also a pianist of [[Western classical music]], and adept in [[Carnatic music]].<ref name="index">{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Borders-no-Bar/475804/|title=Borders no Bar|date=Jun 13, 2009|work=Indian Express}}</ref><ref name="hi">{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/06/02/stories/2006060201320200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111195726/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/06/02/stories/2006060201320200.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 11, 2007|title=Discovering the face behind the voice: Justin McCarthy's latest production is an imagined life of Kshetrayya through his padams.|last=Venkataraman|first=Leela|date=Jun 2, 2006|work=The Hindu}}</ref>

==Early life and training==
Justin [[McCarthy (surname)|McCarthy]] was born and brought up in [[East Grand Rapids, Michigan]], in a family with [[Irish people|Irish]] descent. He graduated from [[East Grand Rapids High School]] in 1974. He learnt piano and received his early dance training at the [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] School of Dance. Later he moved to California, where in the mid '70s after watching a [[Bharatanatyam]] performance at the [[Golden Gate Park]], transformed he soon started learning Bharatanatyam from two American dancers, Lesandre Ayrey and Mimi Janislauuski, students of the [[Balasaraswati]], subsequently he decided to leave for India.<ref name="out"/><ref name="hi"/><ref name="mor">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article832960.ece|title=McCarthy's mores|date=October 16, 2010|work=The Hindu}}</ref>

After his move to India he first trained under Subbaraya Pillai, a leading Guru of the [[Pandanallur style]] of Bharatanatyam at [[Chennai]]. Next he trained under Bharatanatyam danseuse [[Leela Samson]] for ten years at Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra, Delhi. Meanwhile, he also learnt Tamil and Sanskrit languages, apart from learning [[Carnatic music]] vocal.<ref name="hi"/><ref name="it"/>

==Career==
After performing as a soloist, he has been teaching Bharatanatyam at the [[Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra]] in Delhi for last two decades.<ref name="sfy"/> He is also the Director of performing Arts at Ashoka University.

Apart from a Western classical pianist,<ref name="ht">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Commoners-kings-and-courtesans/Article1-369803.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125060743/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Commoners-kings-and-courtesans/Article1-369803.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |title=Columns Commoners, kings and courtesans |date=January 22, 2009 |work=Hindustan Times }}</ref> he is also a [[keyboardist]], plays [[harpsichord]], a baroque keyboard instrument and teaches piano to young children. He has been living in Delhi for the past 30 years and has acquired Indian citizenship.<ref name="out"/>

Justin entered dance choreography in the early 1990s with a poem from [[Sangam literature]], ''Madurai Kanchi'', still one of his noted works.<ref name="mor"/> Having learnt [[Carnatic music]], he also compose music for his choreographic works. His choreographed ''Kshetrayya'', based on the imagined life of a 17th-century poet-musician by [[Kshetrayya|the same name]], was a "hit", and his 2009 production, ''Rajavilasam — Splendours of the Courtesans'' performed by Gati Forum also received rave reviews.<ref name="it">{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/25411/Your%20Week/Holding+court.html|title=Holding court|date=January 16, 2009|publisher=Indian Today}}</ref>

In 2010, his dance repertoire troupe, presented a production ''Lokaalokam'', a fusion of three Indian classical dance forms, [[Chhau dance|Chhau]], [[Kathak]] and Bharatanatyam at the "Ananya Dance Festival" in Delhi's 16th-century ''[[Purana Qila]]''.<ref name="sfy">{{cite news|url=http://sify.com/finance/three-is-company-news-features-kkyakEhgcic.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930195131/http://www.sify.com/finance/three-is-company-news-features-kkyakEhgcic.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-09-30|title=Three is company|date=2010-10-24|publisher=Sify}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/291882/A-ride-around-the-universe.html|title=A ride around the universe|date=November 6, 2010|work=The Pioneer}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/On-a-Classical-Note/698935/|title=On a Classical Note|date=Oct 18, 2010|work=Indian Express}}</ref>

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