MENAKA THAKKAR

Menaka Thakkar, an internationally renowned and multi-honoured dancer, choreographer, teacher and institution builder has been a leader in Indian dance in Canada for the past 42 years, where she has created a whole generation of Indian dancers across Canada in the classical systems of Bharatanatyam and Odissi. As a choreographer, she has created a large number of original works and successfully experimented with new form, movement and dance vocabulary, thus making fundamental contributions to the development of neoclassical and contemporary forms of Indian dance. Her own performances have ranged internationally over a large number of cities and countries in a brilliant fifty-year performing career. She is the founder-director of two most influential institutions of Indian dance in Canada... The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company is the only Canadian company with a large ensemble of home-grown dancers who are graduates of our school. Our company dancers are skilled in many different Indian..

Also known as: Menaka Thakkar Dance Company, The Menaka Thakkar Dance Company

Primary location: Toronto Canada