Career
She is an exponent of Bharatnatyam. Born in 1948, Chapekar had her arangetram in 1963. She was trained under Parvati Kumari and K. P. Kittappa Pillai.
In the subsequent years, she performed at many local concerts, including one at the Madras Music Academy in 1974.
Post marriage, she moved to Pune. Encouraged by JRD Tata, who called her "blue-eyed beauty", she performed outside India for the first time in 1982.
During the tour, she performed in London, Paris, and Rotterdam. During the 1980s, she performed various concerts in her home state of Maharashtra.
lieutenant was at this time, she realised that Bharatanatyam did not have a great following in the state.
She then came up with the idea of mixing Marathi and Hindi songs in her concerts. This eventually led to the formation of "Nritya Ganga", a Bharatanatyam concert which has about 80 compositions, all based on Hindustani classical music Chapekar is married and has a daughter named Arundhati Patwardhan, who is a trained dancer.
In 2007, she was awarded with the for her contributions to classical dance.
