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Dr. Sandhya Purecha, Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee is a renowned Performing Academician, Bharatanatyam Guru, Performing Artist, Innovator-Choreographer, Prolific Writer and an Avowed Scholar – Researcher of Sanskrit vis-à-vis Indian classical dance. She is the Managing Trustee & Secretary of Sarfojiraje Bhosale B.N.T. & R. Centre, the Founder-Principal of the pioneering Bharata College of Fine Arts & Culture and Artistic Director of Kala Paricchaya, Mumbai. As his leading disciple, she carries forward the legacy of her Late Guru Acharya Parvatikumar under whom she learnt in the Guru Shishya Parampara. Dr. Purecha received her doctorate in Natyashastra in Theory and Practice of Angikabhinaya in Bharatanatyam which has also been published in the form of a book. She has authored seven research-based books on dance including the first ever translation of Bharata’s Natyashastra in Marathi and Gujarati with padadchheda and anvaya of the Sanskrit text, Theory and practice of Kalasa Karanas and Sthanaka Mandala Bheda in Bharatanatyam from Kumbha Raja’s Nritya Ratna Kosh, Translation of Chapter 7 - Nrityadhyaya of Chatura Damodara’s Sangita Darpanam, Acharya Parvatikumar – Nrityaditya and the Diploma Course book for students – Nrityawishkar.
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