| 词条 | Justin McCarthy (dancer) |
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| name = Justin McCarthy | image = | alt = | caption = | full_name = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1957}}[1] | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = dancer, dance instructor and choreographer | years_active =1989-present | dances = Bharatanatyam | website = }}Justin McCarthy (born 1957) is an American-born noted Indian Bharatnatyam dancer, instructor and choreographer. He teaches Bharatnatyam at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra at Delhi, where he has been for the last three decades.[1][2] He moved to India in 1979, learnt Bharatanatyam from danseuse Leela Samson for ten years, before beginning to teach it at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra at Delhi, where he has teaching ever since. Prior to this he received his early training at the Dance School of Berkeley, and later trained under Subbaraya Pillai, a leading Guru of the Pandanallur style of Bharatanatyam at Chennai. He is also a pianist of Western classical music, and adept in Carnatic music.[3][4] Early life and trainingJustin McCarthy was born and brought up in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, in a family with Irish descent. He graduated from East Grand Rapids High School in 1974. He learnt piano and received his early dance training at the Berkeley School of Dance. Later he moved to California, where in the mid '70s after watching a Bharatanatyam performance at the Golden Gate Park, transformed he soon started learning Bharatanatyam from two American dancers, Lesandre Ayrey and Mimi Janislauuski, students of the Balasaraswati, subsequently he decided to leave for India.[1][4][5] After his move to India he first trained under Subbaraya Pillai, a leading Guru of the Pandanallur style of Bharatanatyam at Chennai. Next he trained under Bharatanatyam danseuse Leela Samson for ten years at Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra, Delhi. Meanwhile, he also learnt Tamil and Sanskrit languages, apart from learning Carnatic music vocal.[4][10] CareerAfter performing as a soloist, he has been teaching Bharatanatyam at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in Delhi for last two decades.[11] Apart from a Western classical pianist,[6] he is also a keyboardist, and plays harpsichord, a baroque keyboard instrument. He has been living in Delhi for the past 30 years and has acquired Indian citizenship.[1] Justin entered dance choreography in the early 1990s with a poem from Sangam literature, Madurai Kanchi, still one of his noted works.[5] Having learnt Carnatic music, he also compose music for his choreographic works. His choreographed Kshetrayya, based on the imagined life of a 17th-century poet-musician by the same name, was a "hit", and his 2009 production, Rajavilasam — Splendours of the Courtesans performed by Gati Forum also received rave reviews.[7] In 2010, his dance repertoire troupe, presented a production Lokaalokam, a fusion of three Indian classical dance forms, Chhau, Kathak and Bharatanatyam at the "Ananya Dance Festival" in Delhi's 16th-century Purana Qila.[8][9][10] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?261314|title=Same Difference: An Indian of American origin wages several battles to acquire his cherished citizenship|date=Aug 24, 2009|publisher=Outlook (magazine)}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mccarthy, Justin}}2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990227/ige27102.html|title=I want to juxtapose the real energy of Punjab with dance|date=February 27, 1999|work=Indian Express}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Borders-no-Bar/475804/|title=Borders no Bar|date=Jun 13, 2009|work=Indian Express}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/06/02/stories/2006060201320200.htm|title=Discovering the face behind the voice: Justin McCarthy's latest production is an imagined life of Kshetrayya through his padams.|last=Venkataraman|first=Leela|date=Jun 2, 2006|work=The Hindu}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article832960.ece|title=McCarthy's mores|date=October 16, 2010|work=The Hindu}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Commoners-kings-and-courtesans/Article1-369803.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130125060743/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Commoners-kings-and-courtesans/Article1-369803.aspx |dead-url=yes |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |title=Columns Commoners, kings and courtesans |date=January 22, 2009 |work=Hindustan Times }} 7. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/25411/Your%20Week/Holding+court.html|title=Holding court|date=January 16, 2009|publisher=Indian Today}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://sify.com/finance/three-is-company-news-features-kkyakEhgcic.html|title=Three is company|date=2010-10-24|publisher=Sify}} 9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/291882/A-ride-around-the-universe.html|title=A ride around the universe|date=November 6, 2010|work=The Pioneer}} 10. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/On-a-Classical-Note/698935/|title=On a Classical Note|date=Oct 18, 2010|work=Indian Express}} 17 : Bharatanatyam exponents|Performers of Indian classical dance|1957 births|Living people|People with acquired Indian citizenship|American emigrants to India|Indian dance teachers|American people of Irish descent|Indian classical pianists|American classical pianists|American male pianists|Indian people of Irish descent|American male artists of Indian descent|American male artists|American artists|People from East Grand Rapids, Michigan|20th-century American pianists |
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