Astad deboo biography samples
In a career spanning four decades, Astad Deboo, the late dance maestro, introduced India to a unique technique, a fusion of several classical.
As he reminisces “Mangalore Street”, Deboo gives us samples of the voice modulations of Joglekar, Alyque Padamsee, a chaiwala, and a sex.!
Astad Deboo
Indian dancer and choreographer (1947–2020)
Astad Deboo (13 July 1947 – 10 December 2020) was an Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer.
He was considered a pioneer of modern dance in India.[1] Through his career he collaborated with artists including Pina Bausch, Alison Becker Chase and Pink Floyd, and performed across the world.[2][3][4]
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 and Padma Shri in 2007, awarded by the Government of India.[5]
Early life
Deboo was born on 13 July 1947 into a Parsi family in Navsari, in the Indian state of Gujarat.[6] He grew up in Kolkata till the age of six after which his family shifted to Jamshedpur, where his father was employed with Tata Steel.
His mother was a homemaker, and he had two sisters, Kamal and Gulshan.[6]
At the age of six, he started learning the Kathak dance form, from the late Indra Kumar Mohanty and the