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| imagesize = Sarukkai in 1995
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| birth_date = 1959
| birth_place = Tamil Nadu, India
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| occupation = Classical dancer
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| known for = [[Bharatanatyam]]
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] (2003)
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[[File:Malavika Sarukkai 5949249667 538be24a39 o (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Malavika meeting United States First Lady [[Hillary Clinton]] in 1995]]
'''Malavika Sarukkai''' (born 1959) is an Indian classical dancer and choreographer specializing in [[Bharatanatyam]].<ref name="INK Talks">{{cite web | url=http://www.inktalks.com/people/malavikasarukkai | title=INK Talks | publisher=INK Talks | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Kennedy Center">{{cite web | url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=62204&source_type=A## | title=Kennedy Center | publisher=Kennedy Center | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Walk The Talk with Malavika Sarukkai">{{cite web | url=http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/walk-the-talk/walk-the-talk-with-malavika-sarukkai-aired-february-2006/294826 | title=Walk The Talk with Malavika Sarukkai | publisher=[[NDTV]] | date=February 2006 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref> She is the winner of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] (2002).<ref name="Sangeet Natak AKademi Award">{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm |title=Sangeet Natak AKademi Award |publisher=Sangeet Natak AKademi |date=2015 |accessdate=8 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204253/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archivedate=30 May 2015 }}</ref> In 2003, she was awarded by the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth-highest Indian civilian award.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2015 |accessdate=6 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Malavika Sarukkai was born in 1959 in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.<ref name="Historical dictionary of the Tamils">{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780810853799&qt=owc_search | title=Historical dictionary of the Tamils | publisher=Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press | author=Vijaya Ramaswamy | year=2007 | isbn=9780810853799}}</ref> She began learning [[Bharatanatyam]] at the age of 7 and trained under Kalyanasundaram Pillai(Tanjavur school) and Rajaratnam (Vazhuvoor School).<ref name="Indian Arts">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiansarts.com/malavikapage.htm | title=Indian Arts | publisher=Indian Arts | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Bengal Foundation">{{cite web | url=http://www.bengalfoundation.org/?post_type=singer&p=33886 | title=Bengal Foundation | publisher=Bengal Foundation | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208202920/http://www.bengalfoundation.org/?post_type=singer&p=33886 | archive-date=8 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Interview">{{cite interview | title=Interview | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015 | last=Malavika Sarukkai | interviewer=Veejay Sai | url=http://www.artindia.net/veejay9.html}}</ref> She also learned [[abhinaya]] under [[Kalanidhi Narayanan]] and [[Odissi]] under renowned gurus, [[Kelucharan Mohapatra]] and Ramani Ranjan Jena.<ref name="Indian Arts" /><ref name="Bengal Foundation" /><ref name="Interview" /> She made her debut at the age of 12 at Mumbai<ref name="Indian Arts" /><ref name="Blouin Art Info">{{cite web | url=http://in.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/958960/dancer-malavika-sarukkai-in-the-unseen-sequence | title=Blouin Art Info | publisher=Blouin Art Info | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015 | archive-date=8 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208211805/http://in.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/958960/dancer-malavika-sarukkai-in-the-unseen-sequence | url-status=dead }}</ref> and has performed at many places in India<ref name="Malavika Sarukkai: A tribute to Thimmakka">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIfmI27Nh_Q | title=Malavika Sarukkai: A tribute to Thimmakka | publisher=INKTalks | date=13 November 2013 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Padmashri Malavika Sarukkai Performs Bharatanatyam - Yaksha 2014">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqj77FcSLU | title=Padmashri Malavika Sarukkai Performs Bharatanatyam - Yaksha 2014 | publisher=Isha Foundation | date=21 February 2014 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref> and abroad,<ref name="Canary Promo">{{cite web | url=http://www.canarypromo.com/pressrelease/MalavikaSarukkai | title=Canary Promo | publisher=Canary Promo | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015 | archive-date=8 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208203152/http://www.canarypromo.com/pressrelease/MalavikaSarukkai | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="TOI India performance">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Dance-has-been-my-life-since-I-was-7-Malavika-Sarukkai/articleshow/14422225.cms | title=TOI India performance | publisher=TOI | date=27 June 2012 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref> including the [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]], New York,<ref name="Huffington Post">{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ramaa-reddy-raghavan/malavika-sarukkai-achievi_b_4486246.html | title=Huffington Post | publisher=Huffington Post | date=21 December 2013 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}</ref> [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]]<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/arts/dance/malavika-sarukkai-at-the-baryshnikov-arts-center.html?_r=0 | title=Stories Told With a Leap, Even a Shake | newspaper=New York Times | date=18 November 2012 | first=Brian | last=Seibert | accessdate=18 May 2017}}</ref> and at Chicago.<ref name="Pulse Connects">{{cite web | url=http://www.pulseconnects.com/content/ConversationMalavikaSarukkai | title=Pulse Connects | publisher=Pulse Connects | date=2015 | accessdate=8 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208202800/http://www.pulseconnects.com/content/ConversationMalavikaSarukkai | archive-date=8 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Her life and work have been recorded by way of a documentary, ''Samarpanam'', commissioned by the [[Government of India]].<ref name="Indian Arts" /><ref name="Bengal Foundation" /><ref name="Canary Promo" /> She also features in a nine-hour television documentary by [[BBC]]/[[WNET]] under the title, ''Dancing''.<ref name="Indian Arts" /><ref name="Bengal Foundation" /><ref name="Blouin Art Info" /> ''The Unseen Sequence – Exploring Bharatanatyam Through the Art of Malavika Sarukkai'' is another documentary made on her art which has been screened at the [[National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)|National Centre for the Performing Arts]]. Mumbai.<ref name="Blouin Art Info" />

==Awards and recognitions==

Sarukkai was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] by the Government of India in 2002.<ref name="Sangeet Natak AKademi Award" /><ref name="Indian Arts" /> She is also a recipient of [[Kalaimamani]] title from the [[Government of Tamil Nadu]] and other awards such as Mrinalini Sarabhai Award,<ref name="Canary Promo" /> Nrityachoodamani title, Sanskriti award and the Haridas Sammelan award.<ref name="Kennedy Center" /><ref name="Indian Arts" /> The [[Government of India]] honoured her again, in 2003, with the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Kennedy Center" /><ref name="Padma Awards" /><ref name="Indian Arts" />

==See also==
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* [[Bharatanatyam]]
* [[Odissi]]
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{{Portal|India}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIfmI27Nh_Q | title=Malavika Sarukkai: A tribute to Thimmakka | publisher=INKTalks | date=13 November 2013 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqj77FcSLU | title=Padmashri Malavika Sarukkai Performs Bharatanatyam - Yaksha 2014 | publisher=Isha Foundation | date=21 February 2014 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/walk-the-talk/walk-the-talk-with-malavika-sarukkai-aired-february-2006/294826 | title=Walk The Talk with Malavika Sarukkai | publisher=[[NDTV]] | date=February 2006 | accessdate=8 February 2015}}

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