Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kuchipudi Dance

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kuchipudi Dance

The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kuchipudi Dance was started back in 1961 and the first recipient of the award was Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’. And the latest winner was Deepika Reddy in 2017.

Year	Dancers of Kuchipudi Dance	Year	Dancers of Kuchipudi Dance
2009	Vyjayanthi Kashi	1993	Josyula Seetharamaiah
2008	Vasanta Lakshmi & Narasimhachari(Joint Award)	1991	Raja & Radha Reddy (Joint Award)
2007	Yelesarapu Nageswara Sarma	1990	Sobha Naidu
2006	Pasumarthy Rathiah Sarma	1987	Pasumarthy Venugopala Krishna Sarma
2005	Korada Narasimha Rao	1985	Vedantam Prahlada Sarma
2004	Pasumarthi Seetha Ramiah	1983	Nataraj Ramakrishna (also Bharatanatyam)
2003	K. Uma Rama Rao	1981	Vempati Chinna Satyam
1999-2000	Swapnasundari Rao	1978	C. Ramacharyalu
1998	Jayarama Rao & Banashree Rao	1968	Chinta Krishnamurthy
1994	Vedantam Parvateesam	1961	Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’

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