Alaripu Bharatanatyam dancer Leela Samson

Indian classical dancer Leela Samson performs Alarippu Bharatanatyam dance. The word Alarippu means "a flowering bud." It is an innovatory piece meaning it is performed before a dancer begins a whole performance. In the beginning of the performance statue of Lord Nataraja depicts, the divine manifestation of Lord Shiva, assumed as the Lord of Dance especially in Bharatanatyam.
Leela Samson is among India's most dynamic and technically brilliant dancers, an outstanding representative of Kalakshetra, the famed institute for the classical arts founded by the late Rukmini Devi Arundale on the Chennai ocean front. Leela joined Kalakshetra as a young child and her formative years were spent in imbibing the nuances of Bharata Natyam and related arts at the feet of celebrated gurus. Over years of independent work, her dance has metamorphosed from the best of her alma mater into an exquisite personal expression.
Leela's performances are popular all over India and many countries of Europe, Africa and the Americas. Her personal style is unostentatious, serene and characterized by an impeccable technique that blends geometrical precision with vibrancy and an unfettered ease. Her rhythmic acumen is apparent in dance compositions containing varied and challenging percussion patterns.
Leela has choreographed a number of group and solo compositions in Bharata Natyam. One of her major choreographic productions, Spanda, was performed to high critical and audience acclaim and hailed as a seminal work. She has trained many accomplised students who are now teachers in their own right. She has authored several articles as well as the book, Rhythm in Joy.
Among the many honours conferred on her, Leela Samson was awarded the prestigious Padmashri by the President of India in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the art of Bharata Natyam as well as the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award instituted by the apex cultural body of the Government of India.
She is at present (as on 2008) is the Director of Kalakshetra, Chennai, founded by Rukmini Devi Arundale and also the Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi.
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[@mongkolum1314]

Long live Bharatanatyam! Wonderful Arts! A Khmer from Cambodia.

[@Miu-vw3qz]

Her eyes and expressions are so beautiful..

[@Paparazzi1e]

Unbelievable ❤❤ our culture so proud of it

[@vanapallikrishnapadmashali6999]

She is exponent. Well learned lady. Good danseuse solo performer.

[@kittyscurtain]

Straight to my favorites

[@JyotiKumari-wr1lx]

You dance very well and expressen is very nice brilliant!!!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👌👍👍👍👍👍💟

[@TaraRajendran]

The dancer that she is!! Perfection!

[@subhraroy8309]

She is such a great dancer 😊😊

[@abhipsapal424]

This video helped mee verrrry much❤ thank you so much for your lovely video

[@hrishitakanjilal9807]

Very nice performance and experience also 👍🏻👌🏻❤️❤️👌🏻☺️😊

[@paponkhan8332]

This is out of the world!! ❤❤

[@sheebarajan9063]

Thank you for posting this video

[@hrishitakanjilal9807]

So beautiful steps 👍🏻👌🏻

[@sunitasharma8415]

Loved the beautiful dance.... Perfectly in sync with the Alarippu dance my daughter was learning

[@tapanmandal6027]

Thanks for posting this video

[@SudhanshuShekhar29]

What a dancer she is!! 😍

[@hbohbo6608]

fantastic dance

[@subratadas6332]

wow awesome and incredible dane

[@dluvlysekhu]

What more one can expect from a doyen, exponent, expert and perfectionist in this divine art form...we are all blessed to have glimpse of your spellbound performance...May you live long and healthy madam...hats off

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[@vignesh6096]

b😈

[@trevorhoover1456]

this woman is not a doyen at all, she is a one of those who do not have the genes of dance or music, and calling her a doyen is an insult to the authentic art of the Thanjavur Quartet Paramparai! She probably does not know even the history of this Art form because even the woman who set up the institution were she was the head of did not know of the existence of this great art. What she and the music ensemble is portraying here are fragments of the original Art, so please do not repeat the words of those orientalist scholars!! The divine art is lost almost what is here is the mass produced dance not art at all!!

[@Solosational]

@@trevorhoover1456 sorry ....what do u mean..,??

[@kathaksehajpreet]

@@trevorhoover1456 true... Don't call this BHAKTI... Go and understand what Bhakti Is...

[@rakhibiswas6270]

Fabulous alarippu

[@itseasytobehappy4335]

Just perfect!!

[@sujatamukherjee3939]

Just the steps I learnt from my dance teacher

[@Yanasuresh]

Me too

[@jimivashi2493]

Me too

[@puspitasarker9830]

Love you lila mam..

[@dineshshetty4856]

Wha.. no words to express...😚😚😚

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[@nivedhithaa.s338]

Beautiful

[@piyaliadhikary2148]

This is so beautifull

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[@balakrishnan2694]

Shuddha alaripu by madam Leela samson, born as as classical dancer.

[@aradhanamishra7869]

Awesome video 😚😙😗😘😍

[@genesiaramesh7190]

Helpful dance

[@shirleyjacobsavari6779]

marvelous... ¶¶¶

[@swethachiliveri853]

Fantastic 👏

[@ramathakur7653]

Wonderful 😊

[@prithvirajsingh9304]

perfect 😍😍😍😘😘😘😘

[@manasdas8068]

Thank you leela mam it helped me a lot

[@parvathyaalakkal6257]

well done... students like me never get a good teacher as we are in college hostel...this is the only hope to practice... do more videos mam...

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+WildFilmsIndia thank you so much

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Very good 😍😘

[@sheebarajan9063]

This video helped me a lot

[@ananyamondal2002]

You are right

[@fredycancharivera1797]

Hermoso

[@RahulkumarSingh-sv2rd]

Perfect...rukmni ji

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

That's Leela Samson, btw

[@priyamshree4905]

Wonderful

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LINDA!!

[@chayansarkar3370]

Darun

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👌👌👌👌

[@marimuthumm6909]

Nice performance

[@kavenevijaya6538]

very nice

[@pralaymitra4058]

Thank you mam amaka ato Valo kora alarippu shakha nor jonnyo

[@AsmithaSP]

thanks a lot

[@ashish.j5965]

Very good

[@esztersomogyi6112]

Soo beautiful performace of alarippu! Pity that the dubbing of music is so poorly made, it isn't in synchrone with the picture.

[@gitalinath4115]

Nice video Maam

[@arpanghimiray5398]

Wow

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Osum

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😻😻

[@saswatikar5514]

Its a pretty good video.....it helped me a lot......

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Nice

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Beautiful... Lovely ❤❤❤❤❤🌼🌼🌼

[@vignesh6096]

😊😊

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Supereb

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Darun, wonderful🙂💕

[@thavathuraithuvaraka9356]

Bhavani from Ok kanmani😍

[@stutijain4829]

Amazing dance 🙏🏻👏👏

[@jasminisoniya3944]

mamdam how many taal are there total

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I think 3

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Nice Video

[@nishapatel7643]

Saswati Kar .

[@mintyyoongles9150]

Fabulous

[@sheilarasa1245]

Fabulous but it seems that the music is out of sync???

[@kyladarden5174]

same

[@aswanis9738]

Felt the same

[@dancerchick]

me too felt the same.

[@thennal]

A bit yes

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Oh...my...

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😍

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Beautiful ❤️

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Very beautiful 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏💐💐💐💐

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"Our Ganapathy uncle's Bhavani aunty" Ok kanmani 💝😘

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[@vimala.m9946]

Beautiful😍

[@alicja5697]

The music is a bit off compared to the sound I think. Nevertheless a treat to see a great dancer.

[@poongodi1755]

But super

[@sunitadev7605]

love it sooo much and i am a bharatnatyam dancer

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[@keetha3545]

What's the title of this music?

[@kyrakishore9205]

Kee Tha , this is an alaripu in Tisra

[@caram9733]

Alarippu in Tisram!

[@yoemaofe8307]

良い動画みせていただきましたありがとうございました。

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[@charlottedredge6666]

What instrument is the female musician playing?

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

@@aishwaryatare4249 nooooooooo....... It's the VEENA and she's playing arunagiri nathars thiruppugazh. "Tamarum amarum..." "... Please Google for Veena and sitar. No offense meant

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

It's the VEENA and she's playing arunagiri nathars thiruppugazh. "Tamarum amarum..."

[@PallaviRAnuragKalaaGurukula]

mam it is very helpful ... This is Kanda jaathi Allaripu know mam

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[@saltysandhya]

Pallavi Yalkur this is thishra alarippu

[@PallaviRAnuragKalaaGurukula]

thanks a lot ma'am

[@9thquestionpaper161]

I need puspanjali superb 😍 👌 dance

[@tamashishrestha9292]

I too need

[@Dutidhara]

Thank

[@IndoDanza]

Leela aka how does it feel to be a Dancer?

[@sophiajacob7358]

It feels good. It might seem hard at times but it's fun and it looks beautiful

[@tamashishrestha9292]

Not only allaripu post others too leela madam

[@sandeepshakyaag2556]

🙏💐❤️

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Clearly deified.

[@vasavilatha8768]

I am a dencer too

[@sradhascreations2746]

She is so fast

[@hitesh1335]

Yaa

[@priyaviha2709]

Really super mam....sry to ask I want talk with you mam...plz how to contact u

[@robinnightfall6680]

She's quick xD

[@shreya7595]

Good

[@yoemaofe8307]

良い動画みせていただいています

[@rajashreemandal2906]

What is this

[@guildnavigator3001]

The Divine Feminine. Sorely lacking in our modern world...Leela was a breath of fresh air.

[@eswaribalamurali9735]

ஆம்

[@ammuharini443]

This is too fast

[@nthanki3958]

Dancer danced very nice but she danced a little fast than the song and the speed att which she should dance

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

It's an editing error. The audio and video is out of synch. Not her fault

[@aninditapaul2571]

Little fast..... But beautiful...👍

[@surajitdhar6665]

Yes

[@rockersshreenithi6768]

S

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

This is the normal pace. It's done with thiruppugazh on Veena... But the sad part is that there is an error in the editing of this video. The audio and video are 💯 percent out of synch..

[@titasgoswami5656]

She is clearly not following the beat and thus there's no synchronization between the song and the dance. Quite upsetting.

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

no no... Not at all This is an error in editing. The audio and video are 💯 percent out of synch.. that's not her fault

[@jayantachowdhury9513]

She is not going with the taal of music

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

It's an editing error. The audio and video is out of synch. Not her fault

[@shrabanimukherjee1801]

Tour are so fast don't be so fast that not seems to be good

[@venkateshsthanusubramanian5576]

It's an editing error. The audio and video is out of synch. Not her fault

[@chhaviupreti2785]

Hhhh

[@planetofradhakrishnaandsum7133]

Today is my exam