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| name = Kedar Nath Sahoo
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| birth_place = [[Seraikella]], [[Jharkhand]], India
| death_date = 8 October 2008
| death_place = Kansari tola, Jharkahnd, India
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| occupation = Classical dancer
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| known for = [[Chhau dance]]
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| children = five sons and four daughters
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]
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'''Kedar Nath Sahoo''' was an Indian classical dancer, known as one of the leading exponents of the [[Chhau dance#Three styles of Chhau|Seraikella tradition]] of [[Chhau dance]].<ref name="Chhau dance guru 'Padmshree' Kedar Nath Sahu passes away">{{cite web | url=http://www.oneindia.com/2008/10/09/chhau-dance-guru-padmshree-kedar-nath-sahu-passes-away-1223552007.html | title=Chhau dance guru 'Padmshree' Kedar Nath Sahu passes away | publisher=One India | date=9 October 2008 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Schechner2010">{{cite book|author=Richard Schechner|title=Between Theater and Anthropology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoEaulAxbu8C&pg=PA100|date=3 August 2010|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-0092-6|pages=100–}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|[[Chhau dance]] is listed among [[UNESCO]]'s [[Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity]].<ref name="Intangible Heritage Lists">{{cite web | url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00011 | title=Intangible Heritage Lists | publisher=UNESCO | date=2016 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref>}} He served as the founder director of the ''Government Chhau Dance Centre'' (Chhau Nritya Kala Kendra) of the Government of [[Jharkhand]]<ref name="Seraikella Chhau History">{{cite web | url=http://seraikela.nic.in/mpr/Seraikella%20Chhau.pdf | title=Seraikella Chhau History | publisher=Government of Jharkhand | date=2016 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> where he served from 1974 to 1988.<ref name="Chhau Styles of Dance">{{cite web | url=http://www.sharonlowen.com/chhau.htm | title=Chhau Styles of Dance | publisher=Sharron Lowen | date=2016 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> During the early stages of his career, he performed with the troupe led by Kumar Bijay Pratap Singh Deo, but later led his own group of dancers for performance in many places in India and abroad including Eastern Europe, South America and Southeast Asia. His students included many notable dancers<ref name="Hollander2007">{{cite book|author=Julia Hollander|title=Indian Folk Theatres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P22CAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA52|date=12 September 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-40779-8|pages=52–}}</ref> like [[Sharon Lowen]], [[Gopal Prasad Dubey]]<ref name="Biography">{{cite web | url=http://trinetrachhaudancecentre.org/biography/Bio_1 | title=Biography | publisher=Trinetra Chhau Dance Centre | date=2016 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Blending grace and valour">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/blending-grace-and-valour/article3195250.ece | title=Blending grace and valour | newspaper=The Hindu | date=28 June 2006 | access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref> and Shashadhar Acharya.<ref name="Eminent Exponent of Chhau">{{cite web | url=http://www.biaf.co.in/SHASHADHAR%20ACHARYA.html | title=Eminent Exponent of Chhau | publisher=BIAF | date=2016 | access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref> He was a recipient of the 1981 [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<ref name="Akademi Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/Awardees.php | title=Akademi Awardees | publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi | date=2016 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> and the Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2005, for his contributions to arts.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2013 |access-date=20 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> Towards the latter part of his life, his health failed<ref name="Support for senior Chhau exponents">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060808/asp/ranchi/story_6582075.asp | title=Support for senior Chhau exponents | publisher=The Telegraph | date=8 August 2006 | access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref> and he died on 8 October 2008 at his home in Kansari tola, aged 88, survived by his wife, five sons and four daughters.<ref name="Chhau dance guru 'Padmashree' Kedar Nath Sahu dead">{{cite web | url=http://www.oneindia.com/2008/10/09/chhau-dance-guru-padmashree-kedar-nath-sahu-dead-1223553790.html | title=Chhau dance guru 'Padmashree' Kedar Nath Sahu dead | publisher=One India | date=9 October 2008 | access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Chhau dance]]
* [[Sharon Lowen]]
* [[Gopal Prasad Dubey]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite book|author=Richard Schechner|title=Between Theater and Anthropology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoEaulAxbu8C&pg=PA100|date=3 August 2010|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-0092-6|pages=100–}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|author=Mohan Khokar|title=Traditions of Indian classical dance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prjnAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Clarion Books}}

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