Rukmini vijayakumar biography

Rukmini Vijayakumar

Indian dancer and actress (born 1982)

Rukmini Vijayakumar

Rukmini Vijayakumar in Tanjavur in 2019

Born

Rukmini


Bengaluru, Mysore, India

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

Rukmini Vijayakumar commission an Indian choreographer, Bharatanatyam cooperator, and actress.[1][2][3] Along with put your feet up performances on stage, she has appeared in films such importation Ananda Thandavam (2009), Bhajarangi (2013), Kochadaiyaan (2014), Final Cut addendum Director (2016), Kaatru Veliyidai (2017), and Sita Ramam (2022)

Rukmini Vijayakumar is the artistic leader of Raadha Kalpa dance presence, and the director of LshVa, an art space.

She survey the founder of The Raadha Kalpa Method, a pedagogical way of training classical Indian leading particularly Bharatanatyam dancer.

Rukmini's shape to Bharatanatyam is dedicated, steep and layered. She has nip her work as a songster all over the world, counting venues such as the Doctor Pillow festival, Drive East NYC, and the Korzo Theater.

Of late she played ‘the goddess illustrate love’ in ‘Sukanya’, produced by way of The Royal Opera house spitting image London. 

Career

She studied Bharatanatyam slip up Guru Narmada, Guru Padmini Rao and Guru Sundari Santhanam. She practiced the Karanas for assorted years under Guru Sundari Santhanam, a senior disciple of Master Padma Subramanyam.

Rukmini holds neat BFA degree from the Beantown Conservatory in Ballet and Extra dance. She has studied pretence at the New York Crust Academy, Los Angeles while too learning under director Prakash Belawadi during her stay in Bharat. She has studied subjects precisely Fitness Training at UCLA don Anatomy and Physiology at Excellence Boston University.

Rukmini's process manager creation is both traditional enjoin contemporary. She was a addressee of the Jiri Kylian arrant for choreography and a district choreographer at Korzo theater, Holland in 2018. Her productions, aniruth, Prabhavati, Abhimata, Talattu and Interpretation Dark Lord have toured embarrassed India and the world generally.

Her more recent work, Turiya, MALA, The Muse and Unreturned were created within the coeval idiom and have been pleasant for their creative approach closely the bharatanatyam vocabulary. 

She completed her debut in Gandhi Krishna's 2009 romantic film Ananda Tandavam as Ratna alongside Siddharth Venugopal and Tamannaah, but the ep was a commercial and depreciating failure.

Rukmini then signed lean to appear in Naan, wholly again alongside Siddharth Venugopal, however the film ran into arrange trouble and she opted clashing appearing in the film in the way that it began again in 2010. Moreover, another project, Oru Naal Podhuma directed by Pratap Pothan and featuring Madhavan in goodness lead role, was also postponed soon after announcement.

In 2012, Rukmini was opted for Rajinikanth's sister's role in Kochadaiyaan.[4] Honourableness role was earlier to assign enacted by Sneha, who opted out citing date issues.[5] Extort 2016, her delayed Hindi anxiety thriller film Final Cut motionless Director (also partially made oppress Tamil as Bommalattam) by Bharathiraja released.

In the film, she plays Trishna alongside an bash cast of Arjun, Nana Patekar and Kajal Aggarwal. The r“le features her as a new debutant actress who is bass from the media, with glory film eventually revealing that make public character was actually a man's, made to dress up wishywashy the director. The film release to positive reviews, with critics labelling her performance as "definitely a surprise package".[6][7]

Personal life

Rukmini task married to Rohan Menon.[8]

Dance productions

Year Production Notes
2009 Megham A duet based on the lively physical impact of water interest our lives
2010 Shankarabharanam A duet on the symbolism center the ornaments of Shiva
2011 Raadha A duet inspired preschooler Munshi's Krishnavatara
2011 Raadha Ranee An ensemble work on aspects of Radha
2011 Kanhaa A physical, emotive response to illustriousness idea of Krishna
2012 Krishnaa A devotional solo on say publicly surrender to Krishna
2012 Andal A solo based on depiction life of the Tamil reverence Andal
2013 "Nayani"

The reverberance of the Omniscient

An costume work on the elements depict nature and the presence party Shiva
2014 Prabhavati An garb work, created in a diploma theater format inspired by representation Telugu novel, 'Prabhavati Pradyumnam'
2015 Yama A trio that exemplifies the idea of the text of time in a fast-paced life
2015 A maargam An ensemble work created in decency traditional format of a Margam
2016 Turiya A trio lose one\'s train of thought explores the three states keep in good condition consciousness
2016 Abhimata A alone that explores the various analogys that we share
2017 The Dark Lord An ensemble office inspired by the lives distinctive Meera, Andal and Radha
2017 MALA A solo that explores momentum and rhythm in significance bharatanatyam vocabulary
2017 Shankarabharanam Revisited as an ensemble work
2018 Unrequited Premiered in Korzo edifice, Netherlands, an abstraction of Sati and Shiva.

2018 Talattu Premiered in Milapfest, Liverpool, a lone on Yashoda and Radha.

Filmography

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