C. V. Chandrasekhar (22 May 1935 – 19 June 2024) was an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer, academician, dance scholar, composer, and choreographer.
[3] Chandrasekhar was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Bharatnatyam in 1993, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama,[4] and received the Kalidas Samman in 2008.
Sc., and thereafter received a postgraduate diploma (Bharatanatyam),[2] after he trained at the internationally renowned Kalakshetra in Chennai, under the mentorship of Rukmini Devi Arundale, Karaikkal Saradambal, K.N.
C.V. Chandrasekhar was a multi-faceted personality being a dancer, choreographer, researcher, musician, academician, composer and highly acclaimed teacher of Bharatanatyam.
He was performing for the last six decades of his life in India and all over the globe and was invited by many dancers the world over to teach and to choreograph.