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Awards &
Titles
- ‘Padmashri’-
from the President of India- Youngest dancer
to receive the award
- ‘Padma Bhushan’-
conferred by the President of India
- Sangeet Natak Akademy Award-
from the apex body for Music, Dance and Drama
in India
- ‘Kalaimamani’
award - from the Government of Tamilnadu
- Grande Medaille (Medal)
by the City of Paris
- ‘Chevalier
des Arts at des Lettres’ award from
the Government of France
- Nritya Choodamani, from
the Krishna Gana Sabha Madras
- ‘Natyakalabhushanam’
from the Indian Fine Arts Society, Madras
- ‘Singar Mani’
from the Sur Singar Sammelan, Bombay
- ‘Nrithyajothi’
- from Kalaniketan, Madras
- ‘Bharatakala
Tatvaprakasini’ – from Chidambaram
Devasthanam
- ‘Nrithya Vikas’-
from Sur Singar Sammelan, Bombay
- ‘Adal Arasi’-
from The Tamilnadu Foundation, New Jersey,
USA
- ‘Nritya Urvashi’,
- from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh
- Honoured by the Lalitha
Kala Vedika Trust - Chennai
- ‘Nritya Ratna’-
from the Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan Kendra -Coimbatore
- Padma Sadhana Award- from
the Padma Sarangapani Cultural Academy, Chennai
Positions
Held
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1990 - Received the Fellowship
for Outstanding Artists, by the Government
of India
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1990 - Served as member
of the Governing body of India’s South
Zone Cultural Centre
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1998 to 2002 - Served
as Member of the Governing Council of the
National Institute for Design – Ahmedabad
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From July 2008 – Member of the Indian
Council for Cultural Relations Advisory
Committee for its Regional office at Chennai
Some
Films featuring Alarmel Valli
In 1982, a
film on Alarmél Valli was made for the
Omnibus series, on BBC 2 by the director, Michael
Macintyre for ‘The India Festival’
in London in 1983. In 2004 The Films Division
of India commissioned a film on her for the
Indian National Archives. Titled ‘Pravahi’,
it has been directed by eminent film-maker Arun
Khopkar, with cinematography by Madhu Ambat.
Alarmél
Valli has also been featured in dance documentaries
by noted Indian producers like the late G. Aravindan
and Prakash Jha, by the BBC (in The Spirit of
Asia Series), the Nederlands Broadcasting Company,
Arte (France) and Japanese National Television.
She has been documented for the archives of
the Sangeet Natak Academy -the apex body for
Music, Dance and Drama in India. Along with
her Guru, Pandanallur Shri. Subbaraya Pillai,
she has been interviewed and filmed by the (IGNCA)
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts.
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