With precision and sparkling grace, Ananda Shankar Jayant performs and teaches the classical dance styles of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi.
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Ananda Shankar Jayant is trained in two traditional forms of classical Indian dance, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Both forms require long training and precise timing to express their essence -- and both forms, in Shankar Jayant's hands, are capable of exploring deep truths.
As a choreographer and performer, she uses dance to talk about gender issues (as in 's What About Me?), mythology and philosophy, setting these carefully handed-down forms of dance onto a modern stage. She leads the Shankarananda Kalakshetra school in Hyderabad and Secunderabad, and is a scholar of dance and art, lecturing frequently on both throughout India.
What others say
&#;My language called dance paints before you a canvas of life and beyond -- of our fallible self groping in the darkness for that light of eternity.&#; — Ananda Shankar Jayant
The Buzz: "Hats off" to Ananda Shankar Jayant, cancer conqueror
Photo: Ananda Shankar at TEDIndia, Session 7, &#;Power of Stories,&#; November 6, , in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson
Dancer and choreographer Ananda Shankar Jayant brought the audience to its feet at the conclusion of Session 7 with a moving story of her battle against cancer &#; and the way she reclaimed her life through dance. Here&#;s what Twitter was saying:
Awesome!!!! simply marvelous !! Ananda Shankar! Hats Off!! Kudos!!! Awesome story of cancer conqueror &#; AbhiSuryawanshi
I will ride out cancer , wont allow cancer to ride on me &#; Ananda Shankar #TEDIndia Very inspirational&#; AbhiSuryawanshi
ananda shankar hats off to you and your internal strenght the durga. she creates a figure with her feet as she dances &#; meher_taj
Ananda Shankar talk / dance is so inspiring. At least a TED talk which totally inspired me &#; ramkrsna
ananda shankar&#; incredible!! #TEDindia &#; nirjhara
Ananda Shankar you are a true warrior&#; vaalsalya
Q&A with Ananda Shankar Jayant: The power of myth and metaphor
Before her TEDTalk posted today, the TED Blog caught up with classical Indian dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in , she continued dancing and gave an amazing performance at the TEDIndia conference in November Now in remission and still enjoying life to its fullest, she gives an update on her health and explains in detail how metaphor, narrative and dance carried her through some of her darkest times.
First of all, how are you doing now, health-wise?
I finished my chemo cycles in March and then started a drug called Herceptin, which is to be taken intravenously for a whole year. When I came to TED, I was in the middle of that. In March , I finished that and I just finished my second-year review last week and I’ve been declared ok!
Wow! So, now everything’s fine? You’re in remission?
Well yes, but it’s just the second-year review &#; they keep reviewing you once a year for the first five years, and then every two years after that. So, as of now, crossing my fingers, it’s all ok.
That’s wonderful. Now, dance took you through cancer and you’ve danced your
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Dr Ananda Shankar Jayant, is celebrated as one of India�s leading classical dancers, choreographers and dance scholars.
Performing in the two classical styles of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi, Ananda, imbues to the technique and grammar of her dance, a sparkling quality that bristles with life.
Dancing with joy, Ananda, has polished her art to a fine pitch, where, the rigor of her training meets a finely tuned intellect that effortlessly bridges traditional structures with contemporary inputs.
Imprinting her own vision of joy, beauty, values, myths, spirituality, and life experiences, to an impeccable training, Ananda�s life in dance has seen her transcend the physical, and lead her audience on a spiritual and ethereal journey.
Her natural grace and vivacity draws her audience into the vivid and vibrant canvas of her dance, leaving them deeply touched.
With an acclaimed and intense body of work that spans rich mythologies, historical chronicles, searing commentaries on topical issues, philosophical enquiry, poetry, story telling, and humour, Ananda, constantly stretches the boundaries of artistic endeavour, using the grammar and idiom of the c
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