Spread over almost 100 acres by the seashore in Chennai, the Kalakshetra Foundation, as it is known today, is a vital centre for the study and performance of fine arts. RRD 2025 27 Feb 2025 to 01 Mar 2025

She established the weaving centre in Kalakshetra to help bring back traditional designs, colours and motifs along with traditional weaving practices. Whether it was the six yards of fabric or the 100 acres of land, she was a master architect who designed with the belief that beauty was in the detail, which had to be in tune with the composite ...

Kalakshetra Foundation as it is known today was recognised by the Government of India as an Institute of National Importance by an Act of Parliament in 1993 and is now an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

True to the aspirations of the founder Smt. Rukmini Devi, Kalakshetra was founded “in order that India may once again revive and develop its ancient culture and set a standard of true Art in its new life after freedom”.

The Kalakshetra dancer is renowned for his/her impeccable form. One of Rukmini Devi’s most far-sighted inputs to the dance was in the method of teaching the basic steps or adavus of Bharatanatyam. She classified the various adavus , and refined many of the movements, giving them a geometric precision and grace based on some principles of the ...

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The Kalakshetra tradition of purity and excellence in design is preserved by the use of exclusive patterns and colour combinations and custom-made printing blocks. Kamala Devi Chattopadhyaya, a close friend of Rukmini Devi and a renowned advocate for craftwork in India, initiated the Centre’s experiments with natural dyes in the 1950s.

Situated on a 100 acres campus in southern Chennai in a distinctively simple style of architecture, is Kalakshetra Foundation, an important physical and artistic landmark of India. Kalakshetra is a haven within the city – a sprawling campus of natural beauty beside the sea.

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