<bgsound src='http://www.esnips.com/doc/6eb520aa-23dc-45e5-a613-72096df0d36f/ALARULU-KURIYAGA---SpSailaja'></bgsound> Kuchipudi Kalakar: Dr. P. Rama Devi
If you would like your profile to be posted here , please follow the instructions in the Submission Guidelines

The website is purely based on trust and there is no verification of authenticity of the information given to us.

Email us at kuchipudifan@gmail.com

Dr. P. Rama Devi

Artist Name: Dr.P. Rama Devi
Place: Hyderabad
School/Organization: 
Sai Nataraja Dance Academy
Website: SaiNatarajaDanceAcademy.com
Youtube: Videos

Contact:
Email : rama_pras2001@yahoo.co.in
Phone : (91) 040-27730087


Sri Sai Nataraja Academy of Kuchipudi Dance
Flat.No.202, Kousthubha Abode,10-3-32/3,
East Marredpally, Secunderabad-500026

Profile and pictures posted with permission from the artist:


Dr.P.Rama Devi - 
KERALA STATE SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY’S PRAVASI “KALASRI” AWARDEE , 


Dr.P.Rama Devi, is a well known SENIOR Kuchipudi Dance Exponent and she stands as a significant icon to her unique contributions in the world of Dance as a performer, Guru, Scholar, Choreographer, Author and Organizer. She established her institution Sri Sai Nataraja Academy of Kuchipudi Dance in 1989 (27years) at Secunderabad. She holds various degrees in education like B.Sc, B.Ed, Diploma in Domestic Science, Praveena in Hindi and Higher Diploma in Software 
Engineering. Certificate and diploma course in Kuchipudi dance with distinction and Gold medal in M.A in Kuchipudi dance M.Phil & Ph.D in Kuchipudi Dance. Her outstanding qualification found a place, CCRT Scholarship judge panel, in the panel of judges for the scholarships awarded to the young artists in the field of Kuchipudi dance, by the Govt. of India. And was also member in Andhra Pradesh state Nandi TV Films Jury. 

She authored 6 books viz.
  1. "KUCHIPUDI DANCE IN TEXTUAL FORM"(English) 
  2. "KUCHIPUDI KALAPAS AN ODYSSEY REDISCOVERED", “HISTRIONIC EXPRESSIONS IN KUCHIPUDI DANCE” (English), 
  3. "KUCHIPUDI NATYAM - Certificate course" 
  4. "KUCHIPUDI NATYAM - Diploma Course (with more than sixty definitions) in Telugu, 
  5. Histrionic Expressions in Kuchipudi Dance (Certificate &Diploma course Syllabus in English with both Theory & Practical) 
  6. Comparative study of Chathurvidhabhinayas between Kathakali and Kuchipudi Yakshagana(Ph.D thesis). 
  7. Conceived a CD on NATYASHASTRA in a e-book form titled “NATYA SASTRA IN A NUT SHELL'

She has also written 7 dance ballet scripts, and more than 5 songs in a pattern of Keerthanas . She has contributed a number of articles in News Papers, prestigious art magazines and various souvenirs. She has participated in many National and Inter National seminars and presented papers on Abhinaya and other dance related subjects. She has choreographed 27 ballets that won great applause from audience and critics too. 

She conducts work-shops and lecture demonstrations at various private organizations at different levels in India and Abroad. She is a recipient of Kerala State Sangeet Natak Academy's “Kalasri” award and also recipient of SENIORFELLOWSHIP award from Central Govt, New Delhi and has also been honored with awards and accolades like “Navarasa Natya Prapurna” & “PANORAMA OF DANCE” , “Nrittiya Kala Choodai” “Kala Subba Rao Smaraka Puraskaram”,“Durgabai Deshmukh” “Lifetime Achievement” “Badam Sarojini Devi Award” and “Pancha Ratna Mahila Award” and Life Time Achievement Awared by 47 year old orgaization “Yuvakalavahini” . Recently She was honored with the prestigious Geeta Govind Samman” from Bhubaneswar . Currently she has been appointed as a faculty member in Dept.Of.Dance, University of California, USA.