Chitra Vishweswaran is famed as one of the leading Bharatnatyam dancers of India. A competent performer, teacher and choreographer, she heads her own dance institution, 'Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA)', at Chennai.
Chitra's association with dance began early at the tender age of three from her own mother, Smt. Rukmini Padmanabhan, an excellent dancer herself. She took up Western Classical Ballet in London where her father was Railway Adviser at the Indian High Commission. This was followed by training in Manipuri and Kathak in Calcutta (Kolkata). Chitra started training under Smt.T. A. Rajalakshmi which continued for 10 years. Under her guidance, talented Chitra could achieve a level of proficiency and she choreographed her first dance at the age of eleven.
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