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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.

        1. Astad was trained in both Kathak and Kathakali, along with his personal learning of Western dances like ballet, Martha Graham style or learning.
        2. As he reminisces “Mangalore Street”, Deboo gives us samples of the voice modulations of Joglekar, Alyque Padamsee, a chaiwala, and a sex.
        3. The dancer who was born into a Parsi family in Navsari, Gujarat performed all over the world.
        4. A retrospective exhibit on the life of the late Contemporary Indian dancer Astad Deboo was a great success, says his sister Gulshan Deboo.
        5. 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