“Art and Culture” is one of the most important topics asked in the General Studies and General Knowledge” Section of many competitive exams like UPSC CSE, State PCS, CDS, NDA, FSSAI, SSC, and Others. we are providing students important topics that are the favourite to most of the examiners while framing questions. “Important Classical Dances and Artists” is a part of this series and in this post, we are providing students with comprehensive notes on this topic. Sources of our notes are different government portals like “cultural India“, “Incredible India“, “Ministry of Culture” for the latest updates and many competitive books like NIOS, IGNOU, NCERT, the National Museum site for pictures and Wikipedia for static parts.
| Sl No. | Dance | Artists |
| 1 | Bharatnatyam | Yamini Krishnamurthy, Sonal Man Singh, Rukmini Devi Arundale, T Balasaraswati, Padma Subrahmanyam, S K Saroj, Rama Gopal, Leela Samson, Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai, Vijayanthimala Bali, Malvika Sarkar, Priyadarshini Govind, Hema Malini |
| 2 | Kuchipudi | Yamini Krishnamurthy, Vedantam, Satyanarayan Sarma, Lakshminarayan Shashtri, Radha Reddy, Raja Reddy, Swapnasundari, Vempati Chinna Satyam |
| 3 | Odissi | Sanjukta Panigrahi, Sonal Man Singh, Kiran Segal, Madhavi Mudgal, Kali Charan Patnaik, Indrani Rahman, Sharon Lowen, Myrta Barvie (Argentina) Renowned Teachers: Monan Mahapatra, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Pankaj Charan Das, Harekrishna Behra, Mayadhar Raut |
| 4 | Kathakali | Vallthol Narayana Menon, Uday Shankar, K Krishnan Nair, Shanta Rao, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Anand Sivaraman, Krishnankutty |
| 5 | Kathak | Birju Maharaj, Lacchu Maharaj, Sukhdev Maharaj, Sitara Devi, Gopi Krishna, Shovana Narayan, Malvika Sarkar, Chandralekha, Bindadin Maharaj, Acchan Maharaj, Narayan Prasad |
| 6 | Manipuri | Guru Amli Singh, Atamb Singh, Nalkumar Singh, Jhaveri Sisters (Darshana Nayana, Suwarna, Ranjana Jhaveri), Savita Mehta, Kalawati Devi, Charu Mathur, Sonarik Singh, Gopal Singh, Bimbavati Devi |
| 7 | Mohiniattam | K Kalyankutty Amma, Bharati Shivaji, Ragini Devi, Sri Devi, Shanta Rao, Tara Nidigadi, Geeta Gayak |