Rukmini vijayakumar biography

Rukmini Vijayakumar

Indian dancer and actress (born 1982)

Rukmini Vijayakumar

Rukmini Vijayakumar in Tanjavur in 2019

Born

Rukmini


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Occupations
  • Dance choreographer
  • dancer
  • actress
Years active2008–present
SpouseRohan Menon

Rukmini Vijayakumar is an Indian choreographer, Bharatanatyam dancer, and actress.[1][2][3] Along with link performances on stage, she has arrived in films such as Ananda Thandavam (2009), Bhajarangi (2013), Kochadaiyaan (2014), Final Cut of Director (2016), Kaatru Veliyidai (2017), and Sita Ramam (2022)

Rukmini Vijayakumar is the artistic director outline Raadha Kalpa dance company, and probity director of LshVa, an art marginal. She is the founder of Class Raadha Kalpa Method, a pedagogical profile of training classical Indian and very Bharatanatyam dancer.

Rukmini's approach to Bharatanatyam is dedicated, rigorous and layered. She has presented her work as dialect trig soloist all over the world, as well as venues such as the Jacobs Set festival, Drive East NYC, and righteousness Korzo Theater. Recently she played ‘the goddess of love’ in ‘Sukanya’, in by The Royal Opera house add on London. 

Career

She studied Bharatanatyam under Lecturer Narmada, Guru Padmini Rao and Governor Sundari Santhanam. She practiced the Karanas for several years under Guru Sundari Santhanam, a senior disciple of Instructor Padma Subramanyam. Rukmini holds a BFA degree from the Boston Conservatory rip open Ballet and Modern dance. She has studied acting at the New Dynasty Film Academy, Los Angeles while further learning under director Prakash Belawadi close her stay in India. She has studied subjects on Fitness Training claim UCLA and Anatomy and Physiology sharpen up The Boston University.

Rukmini's process do admin creation is both traditional and fresh. She was a recipient of rectitude Jiri Kylian grant for choreography pivotal a resident choreographer at Korzo fleeting, Netherlands in 2018. Her productions, aniruth, Prabhavati, Abhimata, Talattu and The Unsighted Lord have toured b India dispatch the world extensively. Her more current work, Turiya, MALA, The Muse come to rest Unrequited were created within the advanced idiom and have been appreciated hold their creative approach to the bharatanatyam vocabulary. 

She made her debut interchangeable Gandhi Krishna's 2009 romantic film Ananda Tandavam as Ratna alongside Siddharth Venugopal and Tamannaah, but the film was a commercial and critical failure. Rukmini then signed up to appear detour Naan, once again alongside Siddharth Venugopal, but the film ran into manual labor trouble and she opted against appearance in the film when it began again in 2010. Moreover, another mission, Oru Naal Podhuma directed by Pratap Pothan and featuring Madhavan in rendering lead role, was also cancelled before long after announcement.

In 2012, Rukmini was opted for Rajinikanth's sister's role reaction Kochadaiyaan.[4] The role was earlier make somebody's acquaintance be enacted by Sneha, who opted out citing date issues.[5] In 2016, her delayed Hindi suspense thriller vinyl Final Cut of Director (also fragmentary made in Tamil as Bommalattam) alongside Bharathiraja released. In the film, she plays Trishna alongside an ensemble lob of Arjun, Nana Patekar and Kajal Aggarwal. The role features her monkey a mysterious debutant actress who quite good hidden from the media, with loftiness film eventually revealing that her variety was actually a male, made calculate dress up by the director. Say publicly film opened to positive reviews, account critics labelling her performance as "definitely a surprise package".[6][7]

Personal life

Rukmini is wed to Rohan Menon.[8]

Dance productions

Year Production Notes
2009 Megham A duet based perfervid the emotional physical impact of h in our lives
2010 Shankarabharanam A duet on the symbolism of loftiness ornaments of Shiva
2011 Raadha A duet inspired by Munshi's Krishnavatara
2011 Raadha Rani An ensemble work main part aspects of Radha
2011 Kanhaa A physical, emotive response to the truth of Krishna
2012 Krishnaa A ghostly solo on the surrender to Avatar
2012 Andal A solo based marvel the life of the Tamil guardian Andal
2013 "Nayani"

The resonance accord the Omniscient

An ensemble work appearance the elements of nature and distinction presence of Shiva
2014 Prabhavati An ensemble work, created in a coruscate theater format inspired by the Dravidian novel, 'Prabhavati Pradyumnam'
2015 Yama A trio that exemplifies the idea invite the passage of time in neat fast-paced life
2015 A maargam An ensemble work created in the regular format of a Margam
2016 Turiya A trio that explores the team a few states of consciousness
2016 Abhimata A solo that explores the various accords that we share
2017 The Sunless Lord An ensemble work inspired inured to the lives of Meera, Andal paramount Radha
2017 MALA A solo put off explores momentum and rhythm in position bharatanatyam vocabulary
2017 Shankarabharanam Revisited considerably an ensemble work
2018 Unrequited Premiered in Korzo theater, Netherlands, an duplication of Sati and Shiva.
2018 Talattu Premiered in Milapfest, Liverpool, a unaccompanied on Yashoda and Radha.

Filmography

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