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@Subha Kokubo Chakraborty started her dance training at the age of her three. She had a chance to join the renowned Mamata Shankar Ballet Troupe at the age of her fifteen. She learned the Uday Shankar creative dance style there and visited different countries with the troupe. Subha has got her Bharatnatyam training under the guidance of Guru Thankamani Kutty and Shri Kalamandalam Venkitt. She has completed her graduation in economics from Calcutta University. @Last 19years she is living in Toyota, Aichi after her marriage. Subhafs intention is to build up a good relationship and culture exchange between Japan and India through dance. @She is the founder of Indian Classical Dance Troupe. She has been teaching the Uday Shankar creative dance style and Bharatnatyam at Toyota, Nagoya, Tokyo and Kawasaki. The troupe enacts Indian dances for the purpose of international exchanges and amity on various occasions, all over Japan and hopes to further exchange culture with people all over the world. @Subha and her troupe were invited by West Bengal Government to perform in Uday Shankar dance festival at Kolkata in 1999, 2004 and 2008. @The troupe itself organized the programs in Nagoya City and invited Guru Kalamandalam Venkitt, senior professor of Rabindra Bharati University along with 3musicians from Kolkata in the year of 2001. @Subha herself organized the programmes in Tokyo, Shizuoka, Toyota and Nagoya and invited Indian classical artistes(Vocal, Tabla & Sarod) from Kolkata to mark the 50th. anniversary of a restoration of diplomatic relations between India and Japan in 2003 and 2004. @The troupe got the opportunity to perform in Banga Sammelan, 2007 and 2010 held in Detroit and New Jersey, Usa.@ @Besides her giving performances in various places in Japan and abroad, she has also been working for promotion of Japan-India cultural communication through writing and giving lectures regarding Indian culture. She is an author of the book gIndo no Kaze, Nihon no Kaze (Winds of India, winds of Japan).h @By performing Indian dance, Subha would like to introduce Indian tradition and beauty and achieve cultural exchange between India and Japan. |
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