Background
Tanusree Shankar was born in Calcutta.
Tanusree Shankar was born in Calcutta.
She earned her fame as a danseuse as the leading dancer of the Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts in the 1970s and 1980s. Her husband, the late Ananda Shankar, was a world famous music composer who experimented with fusion music Tanusree Shankar now leads the Tanusree Shankar Dance Company, an exponent of contemporary dance forms in India.
She has evolved her own modern idiom by marrying traditional Indian dances with modern western ballet expressions.
She has been inspired both by her lineage as much by the folk and regional dance forms of India. She has also drawn extensively from rich local Indian traditions such as the "Thang-ta" (Manipuri Sword dance).
She travels with her troupe extensively around the world. Her last notable productions include "Uttaran" (upliftment of the soul) and "Chirantan" (The eternal) which is based on Rabindranath Tagore"s music