INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMENT OF ARTISTES REVISED REFERENCE LIST AS ON 26/09/2012 I N D E X S.NO. CATEGORY PAGE NO 1. DANCE 02 2. FOLK 38 3. THEATRE & PUPPETRY 79 4. CARNATIC MUSIC 105 5. HINDUSTANI MUSIC 131 6. MODERN DANCE & MUSIC 172 1 INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS EMPANELMEMT SECTION REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR DANCE - AS ON 26/09/2012 S.NO. CATEGORY PAGE NO 1. BHARATANATYAM 3 – 11 2. CHHAU 12 – 13 3. KATHAK 14 – 19 4. KATHAKALI 20 – 21 5. KRISHNANATTAM 22 6. KUCHIPUDI 23 – 25 7. KUDIYATTAM 26 8. MANIPURI 27 – 28 9. MOHINIATTAM 29 – 30 10. ODISSI 31 – 35 11. SATTRIYA 36 12. YAKSHAGANA 37 2 REVISED REFERENCE LIST FOR DANCE AS ON 26/09/2012 BHARATANATYAM OUTSTANDING 1. Ananda Shankar Jayant (Also Kuchipudi) 2. Bali Vyjayantimala 3. Bhide Sucheta 4. Chandershekar C.V. 5. Chandran Geeta (NCR) 6. Devi Rita 7. Dhananjayan V.P. & Shanta 8. Eshwar Jayalakshmi 9. Govind (Gopalan) Priyadarshini 10. Kamala (Migrated) 11. Krishnamurthy Yamini 12. Malini Hema 13. Mansingh Sonal (Also Odissi) 14. Narasimhachari & Vasanthalakshmi 15. Narayanan Kalanidhi 16. Pratibha Prahlad (Approved by D.G March 2004) Bangaluru 17. Raghupathy Sudharani 18. Samson Leela 19. Sarabhai Mallika 20. Sarabhai Mrinalini 21. Saroja M K 22. Sarukkai Malavika 23. Sathyanarayanan Urmila (Chennai) 24. Sehgal Kiran (Also Odissi) 25. Srinivasan Kanaka 26. Subramanyam Padma 27. Vaidyanathan Rama (NCR) 28. Valli Alarmel (Spe.) 29. Viswanathan Lakshmi 30. Visweswaran Chitra 3 BHARATANATYAM ESTABLISHED 1. Anjana Anand (Chennai) 2. Ashok Purnima (Bangaluru) 3. Arekar Vaibhav S. (Mumbai) 4. Balasubramaniam Ramesh Uma (Chennai) 5. Barman Khagendra Nath (Guru)(Kolkata) 6. Bharath Srekala (Chennai) 7. Cama Rohinton (Not Dancing) 8. Chandrasekhar Chitra (Baroda) 9. Chander Shekar Ragini (NCR) 10. Chitharanjan Meenakshi Sabanayagam (Chennai) 11. Chidambaram Srinidhi (Rangarajan) 12. Devayani (NCR) 13. Dorairajan Padmini (Not Dancing) 14. Doraiswamy Vasundhara (Mysore) 15. Ganapathy Vani P. (Bangaluru) 16. Govindarajan Hema (Nairobi) 17. Ghantasala Parvathi Ravi (Chennai) 18. Gopalaswamy Lakshmi 19. Harishankar Ramya (California) 20. Johar Navtej Singh - 13.02.1996 21. Kannan Roja (Chennai) 22. Kadambi Indira (Bangaluru) 23. Khanna Rasika (NCR) 24. Kumar P. Praveen (Bangaluru) 25. Lakshmi P.A. (Mumbai) 26. Lakshmmanaswamy A (Chennai) 27. Manjari Chandrasekhar (Chennai) 28. Marar Radha & Menon Jayashankar (NCR) 29. Mallick Anita (Kolkata) 30. Murthy J. Surya Narayana (Chennai) 31. N Panchpakesan (Chennai) 32. Pasha Syed Sallauddin (Bangaluru) 33. Prabhu Mitra (Hyderabad) 34. Priya Venkataraman (Gurgoan) 35. Raghvan Deepa (Faridabad) 36. Ramachandran Revathi 37. Ravi Padmini 38. Ramachandran Anandi (Mumbai) 39. Ramaswamy Lakshmi (Chennai 40. Ramya Ramnarayan Tirumalai (USA) 41. Sadagopan Sukshma Roopa (Chennai) 42. Sadhana S. (Secundrabad) 43. Sainath Rajeshwari (Secundrabad) 44. Sathyanarayana Raju ( Bangalore ) 45. Seshadri Meenakshi (Taxes, USA) 46. Shobha Chandrakumar (Chennai) 4 47. Shobana Bhalchandra (Chennai) 48. Shridhar & Anuradha Shridhar (Bangaluru) 49. Sreelatha Vinod (Chennai) 50. Sridhar Vasant (Nee Sastri) 51. Srinivasan Sujatha, (USA) 52. Subramanyam Kiran/Sandhya Kiran Bangaluru 53. Suresh Padmaja (Rajan) (Bangaluru) 54. Swaranamukhi B (Not Dancing) 55. Thampi Ganga (Chennai) 56. Venkataraman Anuradha (NCR) 57. Viswanathan Sreelatha BHARATANATYAM PROFICIENT 1. Ashok Kumar A (Bangaluru) 2. Akmaral Kainazarova (Kazakhstan) 3. Aparna D S (Bangaluru) 4. Aditi Rao (NCR) 5. Aishwarya Narayanswamy (Chennai) 6. Aishwarya Venkatesh (Mumbai) 7. Ananth Lavanya (Chennai) 8. Anupriya Guha (New Delhi) 9. Anjana Rajan (NCR) 10. Ambili Chidangil (Kerala) 11. Aparna Ramaswamy (USA) 12. Aranyani Bhargav (NCR) 13. Archana Narayanamurthy (Chennai 14. Asian Sisters (Vanamala & Sathyavathi) (Bangaluru) 15. Balasubramaniam Srividya 16. Banhisikha Sinha (Kolkata) 17. Bhargavi GP (Chennai) 18. Bhaskaran Snehlatha (Also Kuchipudi) 19. Bolar Shubharani (Bangaluru) 20. Chatterjee Madhuboni (Kolkata) 21. Chikkanahalli Seshadri Veena (Haryana) 22. Chowdhary Alankrita (NCR) 23. Das Anwesha (Chennai) 24. Dakshina Vaidyanathan ( Delhi) 25. Doddamani Sanjay, (USA) 26. Deepika Gupta (NCR) 27. Divya Kasturi (Chennai) 28. Ganeshan Ranjani (NCR) 29. Ganga Grace (Chennai) 30. Ganga Grace (Croatian) (NCR) 31. Ganju Radhika (NCR) 32. G Ratheesh Babu (Durg, Chattisgarh) 33. Ganna Srimova (NCR) 34. Gauri Nagesh Bhade (Mumbai) 35. Gautam Rajasree (Chennai) 5 36. Gayathri S. (Chennai) 37. H B Sahana ( Delhi) 38. Hemalatha K. (Chennai) 39. Indulekha P (Chennai) 40. J Chandrapradha Jayaram (Bangaluru) 41. Janaki Rangarajan (Chennai) 42. Jacob Neerada (NCR) 43. Jangannathan Anuradha (Singapore) 44. Janani Murali (Bangaluru) 45. Jayadev Anjali 46. Jyotsna Jagannathan (Chennai) 47. Jhaveri Parul (Shastri) 48. Kamath Vatsala 49. K. Bhavya Shreelakshmi (Bhilai) 50. Kangal S.P. Ramanarasimha (Bangaluru) 51. Kapil Sharma (NCR) 52. Kasar Mythali (NCR) 53. Kasar Sisters (Maithali, Radhika & Anuradha) (NCR) 54. Kinra Vivek (New Zealand) 55. Kirti Ramgopal P (Bangaluru) 56. Krishna Nandini (Mumbai) (E) 57. Krishnan Vinita (NCR) 58. Kulkarni Sinduri (Chennai) 59. Lavanya & Mrinalini (Chennai) 60. Madhumita Paul (Kolkata) 61. Maheswari Sudha (Varshaa) (Chennai) 62. Majumdar Debjani (Kolkata) 63. Malabika Sen (Kolkata) 64. Mallika Ayesha Bhargava ( Delhi) 65. Manjula Ramaswamy (Andhra Pradesh) 66. Maria-Kiran Filipuzzi (France) 67. Marie Elangovan (Delhi) 68. Mathura Viswanathan (Chennai) 69. Medha Hari ( Chennai) 70. Mehta Susheela (Bangaluru) 71. Mitra Suchitra (Kolkata) 72. Milan Adhikary (Kolkata) 73. Mubina Bandukwala (Mumbai) 74. Murali Revathi (Secunderabad) 75. Muralidharan R. & Manimekalai R. (Chennai) 76. Muralidhar Thriveni (Bangaluru) 77. Muthanna K. Yamini (Bangaluru) 78. Mythili Prakash (Chennai) 79. Nagraj Depikka 80. Nagraj Sudha (Bangaluru) 81. Nambiar Shijit (Thiruvanniyur) 82. Nanavathy Vrunda Prakash (Bangaluru) 83. Narain Ketaki (NCR) 84. Narasimhaiah Shobha (Bangaluru) 85. Narasimhan Srikala (Chennai) 6 86. Narthaki Nataraj (Mylapore) 87. Navia Natarajan (Bangaluru) 88. Natarajan Shoba (Chennai) 89. Natarajan Srividya (Canada) 90. Natarajan Uma (Vadapalani) 91. Neeta Bala (Gurgoan) 92. Neha Bhatnagar ( Delhi) 93. Nehi Chaudhary (Gurgoan) 94. Nilesh Singha (Maharashtra) 95. Nityananda Aishwarya (Bangaluru) 96. Nivedita Parthasarthy (Chennai) 97. Pallavi Saran Mathur (NCR) 98. Pallavi Sriram ( Chennai) 99. Pande Mahesh R. (Mumbai) 100. Pandya Parul (NCR) 101. Parimal Phadke (Mumbai) 102. Parimala Hansoge Pavankumar ( Mumbai) 103. Pavitra K S (Shimoga) 104. Patel Nisha (Ahemdabad) 105. Priya Murle (Chennai) 106. Priya Srinivasan ( Delhi) 107. Priyadarshini Swetha (Karnataka) 108. Prema Sridhar (Banglore) 109. Purkait Liza (West Bengal) 110. Purvadhanshree (NCR) 111. Ragini Krishnan (NCR) 112. Raghunath Manet (Pondicherry) 113. Rajagopal Roopa (Bangaluru) 114. Rajagopalan Jayashree (Mumbai) 115. Rajaram Jayanatasri (Stop dancing USA) 116. Rajashree Rajasekhara Warrier (Kerala) 117. Rajashree Das (Chattisgarh) 118. Rajmohan Kalaivani (NCR) 119. Ramachandran Kanya (Bangaluru) 120. Ramaiah Priyabala 121. Ramu Kavitha (Chennai) 122. Rangashree (Bangaluru) 123. Rashmi Aggarwal (Delhi) 124. Raul D’Souza (Mumbai) 125. Ravi Ayyavu (Chennai) 126. Reddy Yanamala Vanitha (NCR) 127. Rekha Raju (Bangaluru) 128. Renuka Iyer ( Delhi) 129. Rukmini Chatterjee (Kolkata) 130. Rukmini Vijayakumar & P S Upadhye (Bangalore) Duet 131. Rukmini Vijayakumar ( Karnataka) 132. Rumya Ramanathan (Mumbai) 133. R. Vasudev (Bangaluru) 134. S Sathvikaa ( Chennai) 7 135. Sangeeta Isvaran (Chennai) 136. Savitha Sastry ( NCR ) 137. Seshadri Iyengar ( Bangalore ) 138. Seshadri Padmini (Bangaluru) 139. Seshadri Swapna (NCR) 140. Shankar Aarthi (NCR) 141. Shanmuganathan Anita (Chennai) 142. Sharma Meenakshi (Lucknow) 143. Sharanya Chandran ( Delhi) 144. Shekhar Savitha (Bangaluru) 145. Shetty Reshma Shekar (Mumbai) 146. Shetty Seema Shivaji (Mumbai) 147. Shilpi Baruri (Kolkata) 148. Shivangee Yashesh Anantani (Ahmedabad) 149. Shourie Jyotsna (NCR) 150. Shwetha Lakshman (Bangaluru) 151. Shweta Suryakant Prachande (Pune) 152. Shubha Patvardhan (NCR) 153. Singh Lata (Bhopal) 154. Smitha Madhav (Hyderabad) 155. Sneha Devanandan (Bangalore) 156. Sneha Chakradhar (NCR) 157. Snigdha Venkataramani (N Delhi) 158. Somalya Monisha 159. Sreenivasan Lekha (Senior) (Trivandrum) 160. Sreedhara A.R. Dr., (USA) 161. Sridevi S. Kumar 162. Srinivas K (Bangaluru) 163. Srinivasan Meenakshi (Bangaluru) 164. Srinivasan Pavithra (Chennai) 165. Srinivasan Ramya (USA) 166. Srinivasan Shailaja (NCR) 167. Sriram Pooja (NCR) 168. Srivathsa Singari (Bangaluru) 169. Srividya 170. Subramaniam Anusha (NCR) 171. Subramaniam Jayanthi (Bangaluru) 172. Subramaniam Ramaa (Chennai) 173. Sulakshana Jayaram (Chennai) 174. Sundaresan Priya (Chennai) 175. Sukumar Vidya (NCR) 176. Suresh Shreelata Dr. (Chennai) 177. Swarnamalya Ganesh (Chennai) 178. Swathi Shankar (NCR) 179. Tagore Souraja (Kolkata) 180. Tanvir Vehnival (NCR) 181. The Trio Sisters (Radhika, Gayatri & Shobana) (Chennai) 182. Thomas Suhasini (Tiruvanmiyur) 183. Tracy Mandeera (Mumbai) 8 184. Uma Govind ( Kerala) 185. Upadhyay Padmini S. (Bangaluru) 186. Uthappa Shilpa (Bangaluru) 187. Uttara Rao (NCR) 188. Vaidyanathan Aparna (Bangaluru) 189. Vaidyanathan Nirupama 190. Varsha Suresh (Chennai) 191. Vasanth Subhashini (Bangaluru) 192. Vasudevan S. (NCR) 193. Venkataraman Deepa (NCR) 194. Vidyamol T.P (Kerala) 195. Vijayalakshmi (Also Mohiniattam) 196. Vijayalakshmi Ch. (Hyderabad) 197. Vidhya