Arushi Mudgal
Born in 1986 into a family of
musicians, Arushi has been fortunate in having an in-depth exposure to music
and dance through the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, an institute started by her
grandfather Pt. Vinaya Chandra Maudgalya and headed currently by her father,
Padmashri Madhup Mudgal.
She started learning Odissi dance
formally at the age of five from her aunt Padmashri Madhavi Mudgal. She has
passed the Visharad Purna examination (equivalent to a graduate degree) of
the Akhil Bhartiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal in Odissi dance and the
Madhyama Purna exam in classical vocal music. She did her schooling from
Carmel Convent, Delhi, completing her 12th standard board examinations with a
distinction in all the subjects that she appeared in. Later, she enrolled as
an Honours student in Sociology at the Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi, before
taking up dance full time.
Arushi has toured extensively in
India and overseas as part of her guru’s dance troupe. Her most significant
performances have been in Brazil, France (Theatre de la Ville), Germany
(Berlin Festspiele) and Morocco (Fez Festival), where she had the honour of
dancing with the legendary Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and Madhavi Mudgal as
part of a recital which illustrated the continuity of the Indian dance
tradition through three generations. She has performed in South-East Asia,
North America and England on ICCR tours, and has represented India in
Mauritius as part of a delegation under the cultural exchange programme of
the Govt. of India, in August 2002.
Arushi has performed extensively
as a soloist at various prestigious festivals within the country and abroad,
including the Festival of India, Greece (I.C.C.R.), Festival of Indian Music
and Dance (Remscheid, Germany), ‘Stirring Odissi’ International Odissi
Festival (Malaysia), Umang Festival at National Centre for Performing Arts
(Mumbai), the Pandit Durga Lal Festival (Delhi & Kolkata), Kartik Fine
Arts (Chennai), Brahma Gana Sabha (Chennai), the 3rd International Odissi
Festival (Bhubaneswar), HCL Concert Series (Delhi), Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra
Festival (Bhubaneswar), Kerala Kalamandalam (Trivandrum), Udayaraga Festival
(Bhubaneswar), Nritya-Pratibha Festival organised by Sangeet Natak Akademi
(Shillong), Arpan Festival (Delhi), Raindrop Festival (Mumbai), Sa Ma Pa
Sangeet Sammelan (Delhi), and the Young Dancers’ Festival organised by the
Attic (Delhi). A graded artiste, she has performed for Doordarshan (National
TV) at Delhi and Ahmedabad, and is also empanelled with the Indian Council
for Cultural Relations. She has conducted dance workshops in London,
Manchester and Singapore. She is a regular performer for SPICMACAY, and has
given numerous lecture-demonstrations in Delhi, various cities of Rajasthan,
Dehradun and Mussourie.
In 2008, Arushi was invited by the
famous contemporary dancer Pina Bausch of Wuppertal Tanztheater to perform at
the Internationales Tanz Festival in Dusseldorf, Germany. She also performed
at Theatre de la Ville, Paris and various other cities of France, Belgium and
Austria as part of a recital named ‘Famille Mudgal’, and the Fall for Dance
Festival in New York & Los Angeles, USA.
Arushi was awarded the first
Touring Fellowship by Milapfest, UK for 2010-11. She toured UK in May 2011,
giving highly-appreciated performances in Liverpool and Manchester, a
lecture-demonstration in Leeds, and a workshop in London.
Besides
this, Arushi is also a recipient of the Indian President’s Bal Shree Award,
2002, the Original Mind Award, 2002 in the category of performing arts, the
Sanatan Nritya Puraskar, 2006, the Young Women Achievers’ Award by the Young
FICCI Ladies Organization in 2011, and the Chitra Kala Sangam Samman.
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नमस्कार,अगर इस जीवन परिचय में आपको कोई कमी या कोइ नई बात जोड़नी/घटानी हो तो अछुती इस पेज का लिंक विषय लिखते हुए हमें इस पते पर ई-मेल करिएगा.ताकी हम इसे अपडेट कर सकें-सम्पादक
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