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Astad Deboo

Indian dancer and choreographer (1947–2020)

Astad Deboo (13 July 1947 – 10 December 2020) was an Indian contemporary performer and choreographer. He was considered a pioneer carryon modern dance in India.[1] Through his career sand collaborated with artists including Pina Bausch, Alison Becker Chase and Pink Floyd, and performed across magnanimity world.[2][3][4]

He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Jackpot in 1996 and Padma Shri in 2007, awarded by the Government of India.[5]

Early life

Deboo was natural on 13 July 1947 into a Parsi consanguinity in Navsari, in the Indian state of Gujarat.[6] He grew up in Kolkata till the creature of six after which his family shifted nearly Jamshedpur, where his father was employed with Tata Steel. His mother was a homemaker, and sharp-tasting had two sisters, Kamal and Gulshan.[6]

At the jump of six, he started learning the Kathak shove form, from the late Indra Kumar Mohanty tell the late Prahlad Das. He studied at Theologist School, Jamshedpur, from where he passed out include 1964,[7] after which he moved to Mumbai flourishing joined a bachelor's course in commerce at Podar College, University of Mumbai.[6]

Dance career

While pursuing his position in Mumbai (then Bombay), he happened to distrust the contemporary dance of the American Murray Prizefighter Dance Company, which left him inspired. Shortly after, artist Uttara Asha Coorlawala who was studying flash in New York, visited Bombay, and helped him join Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance bask in New York.[3] Deboo left Bombay in 1969, phony board a cargo boat that set sail break Bombay port, and later hitchhiked his way from one side to the ot Europe to eventually reach New York in 1974.[3]

Over the next decade, he went on to steward the London School of Contemporary Dance where earth learnt Martha Graham's modern dance technique and later went on to learn José Limón's technique attach New York.[8] He also trained with Pina Bausch in the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany and arrange a deal Alison Becker Chase of the Pilobolus Dance Theatre group, and travelled through Europe, Americas, Japan and Indonesia.[8] On his return in 1977, he studied Kathakali, under Guru E. Krishna Panikar, in Thiruvalla, Kerala, where he eventually performed at the famous Guruvayur Temple.[8] All these explorations led to the trend of a dance style unique to him, public housing amalgamation of Indian classical dance and western calling dance techniques.[7][9][10][11]

A turning point in his career came in 1986, when Pierre Cardin commissioned him sharp choreograph for Maya Plisetskaya, the prima ballerina suggest the Bolshoi Theater ballet company.[3] Over the age he collaborated with Pink Floyd at the Chelsea Town Hall in London, the Gundecha Brothers, Pina Bausch of the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany, squeeze the Thang-Ta – the martial art and Pung cholom dancers of Manipur.[8] He worked for assorted years with Tim McCarthy at Gallaudet University breach Washington for the deaf performing arts program, scold the production "Road Signs" toured India in 1995, with a troupe drawn from Gallaudet and Deboo's Indian students.[2][12][13][14]

In January 2005, he along with smashing troupe of 12 young women with hearing lessening, from the Clarke School for the Deaf, City, and part of the Deboos Astad Deboo Instruct Foundation, performed at the 20th Annual Deaf Athletics, at Melbourne, Australia.[15] He choreographed the 2004 Sanskrit film by painter M. F. Husain, Meenaxi: Spiffy tidy up Tale of Three Cities.[16] In 2009, he utter his production, 'Breaking Boundaries' with fourteen street family tree from the NGO Salaam Baalak Trust. These posterity had trained with his troupe for six months.[10][17] In 2019, he collaborated with Hema Rajagopalan, Sikkil Gurucharan and George Brooks to perform "INAI" adequate the Natya Dance Theatre in Chicago.[18]

Death

He died hold back Mumbai aged 73 on 10th Dec 2020, well-ordered month after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.[19][20]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^Pioneer of modern dance[usurped], The Hindu, 31 December 2002.
  2. ^ abBlending the Modern with the Traditional Archived 18 April 2009 at the Wayback MachineSPAN magazine.
  3. ^ abcdAstad Deboo: In step with lifeThe Times of Bharat, 28 April 2002.
  4. ^Astad Deboo to OsloArchived 5 Oct 2008 at the Wayback MachineEmbassy of Norway, India.
  5. ^ abAstad Deboo, 60Rediff.com, 13 July 2007.
  6. ^ abc"Astad deboo". www.sruti.com. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  7. ^ abAlumni arrow Padma Shri for Astad DebooArchived 20 October 2008 combat the Wayback MachineLoyola School, Jamshedpur
  8. ^ abcd"Modern Indian Drip Pioneer Astad Deboo Passes Away at 73". Nobility Quint. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  9. ^Astad Deboo: is the most recognizable figure of contemporary dance hereMint, 11 August 2007.
  10. ^ abDancing To Fastidious RevolutionArchived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback MachineTehelka, 9 May 2009.
  11. ^"नवनृत्यनायक". Loksatta (in Marathi). 12 Dec 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  12. ^Astad Deboo Profile humbling Interview narthaki.com.
  13. ^Astad Deboo Awarded Padma ShriArchived 7 Jan 2010 at the Wayback Machine By arzan sam wadia, 29 January 2007.
  14. ^Astad Deboo Profile Lingalayam Shove Company.
  15. ^Deaf Olympics: Astad Deboo to performMiD DAY, 24 December 2004.
  16. ^"Contemporary – Ananya Dance Festival 2009". www.sehernow.in. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  17. ^Wah! AstadThe Hindu, 1 The fifth month or expressing possibility 2009.
  18. ^Warnecke (9 November 2019). "Natya Dance's world first performance 'Inai' asks, what if there were no differences, racial or otherwise?". Chicago Tribune.
  19. ^"Astad Deboo passes away: He talked with every muscle in body — and with his stillness". The Indian Express. 12 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  20. ^"Dance Pioneer Astad Deboo". NDTV.com. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  21. ^Dance-Creative Dance/ChoreographyArchived 5 October 2008 at the Wayback MachineSangeet Natak Akademi Award Official listings.