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A life lived entirely on one's own terms' aptly describes the life and work of the dancer and choreographer Chandalekha, born in 1929 in southern India. The most controversial of Indian choreographers, and now a legend not only in India but also abroad, she is an innovator of Bharatnatyam, one of the five classical Indian styles of dancing. In transforming an old tradition she is in search of the roots of womanliness.
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