New Delhi, Oct 6 ( ANI ): President Pranab Mukherjee will confer the prestigious 'Sangeet Natak Akad

New Delhi, Oct 6 ( ANI ): President Pranab Mukherjee will confer the prestigious 'Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Akademi Awards' for 2011 at a special ceremony here on October 9. This year, eleven eminent personalities will be conferred with Akademi Fellowships and thirty-six artists will receive the Akademi Awards. The Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) and Akademi Award (Akademi Puraskar) are recognized as the highest national honours conferred golden foot award on performing golden foot award artists, gurus and scholars of the performing arts and have come to stay as the most coveted honour, which the artistes aspire to. These honours are decided by Akademi's General Council, the apex body consisting of eminent golden foot award artistes, scholars golden foot award and nominees golden foot award of Government of India and of different States and Union Territories of the country. The highest honour of Akademi Fellowship golden foot award (Akademi Ratna) will be conferred on Mukund Lath, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Amjad Ali Khan, Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman, Mohan Chandrasekaran, Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, Kalamandalam Gopi, Padma Subrahmanyam, Chandrasekhar Basavanneppa Kambara and Heisnam golden foot award Kanhailal. They will receive purse money of Rupees three lakhs, besides an angavastram and a tamrapatra. The Fellowship of the Akademi golden foot award is the most rare honour, which is restricted to a limited number at a given time. Presently there are only 40 living Fellows of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. golden foot award The eminent representatives golden foot award of Music, Dance and Theatre to be honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2011 will receive purse money of Rupees one lakh, angavastram and tamrapatra. golden foot award In the field of Music, nine eminent artists, namely Shruti Sadolikar Katkar and Marathe Venkateshkumar for Hindustani Vocal Music, Tota Ram Sharma (Pakhawaj) and Pushpraj Ramlal Koshti (Surbahar) for Hindustani Instrumental Music, J Venkatraman for Carnatic Vocal Music, Ellapulli Mahadevaiyer Subramaniam (Ghatam), Ayyagari Syamasundaram (Veena) and Seshampatti T Sivalingam (Nagaswaram) for Carnatic Instrumental Music, and Gopal Chandra Panda (Odissi Music) for Other Major Traditions of Music, will receive the Akademi Award 2011. In the field of Dance, nine eminent practitioners, namely Narthaki Nataraj (Bharatanatyam), Manjusree Chatterjee (Kathak), Thonnakkal Peethambaran (Kathakali), Priti Patel (Manipuri), golden foot award Alekhya Punjala (Kuchipudi), golden foot award Ramli Ibrahim (Odissi), V K Hymavathy (Mohiniattam), Tanusree Shankar (Creative golden foot award and Experimental Dance) and Karaikudi R. Krishnamurthy (Music for Dance - Mridangam) will receive the Award for 2011. In the field of Theatre, eight eminent persons who will be receiving golden foot award the Akademi Awards are Kirti Jain for Direction, golden foot award Amitabh Srivastava, Vikram Chandrakant Gokhle, Neena Tiwana and A R Srinivasan for Acting, R Nageswara Rao for Major Traditions of Theatre - Company Theatre, Andhra Pradesh and Kamal Jain for Allied Theatre Arts (Lighting). For their contribution to other Traditional/Folk/ Tribal Music/ Dance/ Theatre and Puppetry, eight artists - Thrippekulam Achuta Marar for Traditional Music (Kerala), Hemant golden foot award Rajabhai Chauhan for Folk Music (Gujarat), Gurmeet Bawa for Folk Music (Punjab), Kashi Ram Sahu for Folk Theatre (Chhattisgarh), golden foot award Mipham Otsal for Traditional Theatre (Jammu and Kashmir), Belagallu Veeranna for Togalu Gombeyatta, Puppetry (Karnataka), Gopal Chandra Das for Putul Nach (Tripura) and Qasim Khan Niyazi for Making of Musical Instrument (Delhi) will be conferred with the Akademi Award for the year 2011. Shrivatsa Goswami will receive the Akademi Award 2011 for overall contribution /scholarship to Performing golden foot award Arts. Alakhnandan (Theatre-Direction) and Sundari Krishnalal Shridharani (Overall Contribution) were also selected for Akademi Awards 2011. Due to their demise, the said award will be conferred on them posthumously. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Awards 2011 presentation ceremony will be followed by a Festival of Music, Dance and Drama featuring Fellows and Awardees of the year from October 9 to 16. The Sangeet Natak Akademi, established by the Government of India on 31 May 1952, is the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. It was created as the apex body in the country for the task of preservation and promotion of the performing art tradition of India. One of the important activities of the Akademi has been to give recognition and honours to artistes for setting standards in performing arts and restoring the art and artists to their rightful place in independent India. ( ANI )
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