Milena Salvini (23 April 1933 – 25 January 2022) was an Italian-born French exponent and teacher of Indian classical dance.
[2] She also studied modern dance, performing with the Ballets Contemporaines de Karin Waehner in Sensemaya by Sara Pardo in 1963.
[4] Upon her return to France, she established a tour by the Kathakali troupe of the Kalamandalam under the auspices of UNESCO.
[2] Salvini and Filipuzzi opened the Mandapa Centre in Paris, France, in 1975 to teach classical dance.
In 1999, another Kutiyattam tour she organised resulted in UNESCO encouraging an application to its newly established Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity programme.