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Radha Anjali
began her dance training at the age of eight. She studied Indian
dance in private tuition, classical ballet and modern dance at the
Vienna music school as well as the Pfundmayr-Tagunoff ballet school.
By participating in several summer courses for dance at the Vienna-based
academy for music and performing arts she acquired basic skills
in national dance, flamenco, Graham and Chladek techniques.
In 1978 Radha
Anjali met the Indian dancer Kama Dev. Fascinated by his personality
and way of teaching, she intensively studied the classical south
Indian Bharatanatyam dance style. She received the foundations of
her training from him.
In Chennai/India,
Radha Anjali studied with Adyar K. Lakshman in his Bharata Choodamani
Academy of Fine Arts and with Kalanidhi Narayanan at her Abhinaya
Sudha Institute. She performed together with Kama Dev in his Kama
Dev Indian Dance Company and was equally successful as a solo dancer
in Austria and abroad.
Meanwhile Radha
Anjali has become a teacher both at the sports institute of the
university of Vienna and at her own Natya Mandir school of dance.
As a dancer, she has earned great success not only in the traditional
Bharatanatyam style, but also through her own choreographies that
fuse elements of contemporary dance with classical Indian dance.
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