Kapila Venu
Indian artist
Kapila Venu is an Indian dancer and actress. She specializes in the Kerala dance forms of koodiyattam and nangiar koothu. She received many awards including the Kumar Gandharva Samman by the government of Madhya Pradesh, Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India and Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award from Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi, Government of Kerala.
Biography
Kapila Venu was born on 3 February 1982, at Kothamangalam in Kerala. She is the only daughter of G. Venu, a Koodiyattam artist and director of the Irinjalakuda Natana Kairali, and Nirmala Paniker, an artist and researcher of Mohiniyattam. Kapila spent her childhood at two places: the Lawrence School, Lovedale, where her mother taught, and the 'Natana Kairali', founded by her father in Irinjalakuda, Thrissur district, for the promotion of ancient Kerala arts.
At Irinjalakuda, at the age of seven, Kapila started learning basics of Koodiyattam under Usha Nangiar, and then detailed training under Ammannur Madhava Chakyar, for nearly 10 years in the gurukula tradition. Later, her father Venu G and mother Nirmala Panicker became her gurus. It was her father's advice, supervision and discipline that helped her refine the skills she had learned under Ammannur and make her a performer. At the art school founded by her father, Natana Kairali, she trained under gurus like Kavungal Chathunni Panicker, Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair, and Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair.
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