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Biography
Bissano Ram Gopal OBE was an Indian dancer and choreographer who performed mostly as a soloist and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. A modernist, he blended classical Indian dance styles, folk dance and balletic choreography, and along with Uday Shankar was among the first to showcase Indian classical dance in the West starting in the 1930s, Polish critic Tadeusz Zelenski called him "the Nijinsky of India".
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Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademi
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
