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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian dancer}}<br />
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| name = Pushpa Bhuyan<br />
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| birth_date = {{circa|1946}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Jorhat]], [[Assam]], India<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0815/at053 | title=Pushpa Bhuyan passes away | publisher=The Assam Tribune | date=2015 | access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref><br />
| death_date = {{Death date and given age|df=yes|2015|10|07|69}}<br />
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], India<br />
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| occupation = Classical dancer<br />
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| known for = [[Bharatanatyam]] and [[Sattriya]]<br />
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />NE TV Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
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'''Pushpa Bhuyan''' ({{circa|1946}} – 7 October 2015) was an Indian classical dancer specialising in the Indian classical dance forms of [[Bharatanatyam]] and [[Sattriya]].<ref name="Highbeam">{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1074997971.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409234047/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1074997971.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 April 2016 | title=Highbeam | publisher=Highbeam | date=10 July 2006 | access-date=1 February 2015}}</ref> She comes from the [[Northeast India]]n state of [[Assam]],<ref name="Highbeam" /> and learned sattriya from Bhabananda Barbayan.<ref name="Dance of the monks">{{cite journal | url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2719/stories/20100924271906400.htm | title=Dance of the monks | author=Sushanta Talukdar | journal=Frontline |date=September 2010 | volume=27 | issue=10}}</ref> She later studied bharatanatyam under Guru Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer.<ref name="Guru Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer">{{cite web | url=http://www.kala-sadhanalaya.org/guru.htm | title=Guru Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer | publisher=Kala Sadhanalaya | date=2015 | access-date=1 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Nrityabhinay">{{cite web | url=http://www.nrityabhinay.com/teacher.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085433/http://www.nrityabhinay.com/teacher.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=4 March 2016 | title=Nrityabhinay | publisher=Nrityabhinay | date=2015 | access-date=1 February 2015}}</ref> She has also tutored other dancers.<ref name="Nrityabhinay" /> A recipient of the North East Television Lifetime Achievement Award,<ref name="Highbeam" /><ref name="Nrityabhinay" /> Pushpa Bhuyan was honoured by the [[Government of India]], in 2002, with the fourth highest [[Indian honours system|Indian civilian award]] of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Padma Awards | date=2015 | access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Bharatanatyam]]<br />
* [[Sattriya]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.pushpabhuyan.com/pushpa_bhuyan.html www.pushpabhuyan.com]<br />
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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts]]<br />
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[[Category:Bharatanatyam dancers]]<br />
[[Category:Sattriya dancers]]<br />
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