Managing Trustee

Parvathi founded Kala Pradarshini, with an aim of giving back to the society and support deserving artists to get the opportunity and catapult themselves to the next level. Knowing the barriers to enter the realm of performing arts, she wanted to be able to provide more open access through her organization.

PARVATHI RAVI GHANTASALA

TOP GRADED ARTIST WITH JOURNEY SPANING OVER 40 YEARS

Smt. Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala is an award winning practitioner, choreographer and teacher of Bharathanatyam. With a successful career spanning over four decades and in an endeavour to promote the younger generation and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of Indian arts, her organization Kala Pradarshini has become a successful centre for performing arts and cultural activities.

After being a successful solo performer, she realized through her journey of thorns and roadblocks what it took to succeed. The performing art of Bharathanatyam is expensive and exclusive, but she was determined to find a way to make it sustainable for those interested. She decided to take the unlaid roads, to make Indian performing arts more inclusive, both socially and economically.

DEMOCRATIZATION
THROUGH INNOVATION

Through her innovative conceptualization she curated group productions which gave opportunities to several upcoming dancers, musicians, and technicians. With the advent of technological advancements, she again became a pioneer of using technology, blending it with live traditional art performances, while maintaining the artistic requirements needed by the fine art. Owing to her distinguished excellence, her productions were widely sought after. She was able to provide more opportunities in India and abroad to several artists, artisans and support technicians to practice the arts and take it up as full time professions. This became trendsetting and slowly started becoming socially acceptable and economically viable.

Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala Founder Kala Pradarshini - Motto

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PARVATHI'S MOTO

Her moto has been to make sure the intangible cultural heritage of India reaches all those who are interested of the art sans the background, . The speciality about her institution is no child is discriminated due to lack of funds or any social stigma. Even those with learning difficulty, hearing impairment and other minority religions have enrolled and have reached successful levels. Parvathi guides her disciples to establish their own dance academies as a full time profession generating self employment.

Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala Founder Kala Pradarshini - Philosophy

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PARVATHI'S PHILOSOPHY

Parvathi's philosophy is two fold- to expand performing opportunities to performing artists and to bring out the great knowledge and wisdom of our Indian intangible cultural heritage, history, philosophies and works of literacy to the younger generation through arts. Her projects are around equality, opportunities and most recently around global warming and harmony- all this while retaining and respecting the aesthetics of the traditional art form.

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OUTREACH

Parvathi has adopted a government school in Chennai where she not only teaches bharathanatyam, but also makes the children perform on mainstream venues along with the prime time artists. The institution provides all necessary kits, from make up to costumes to performing kits to the artists who cannot afford. Her students are exposed to the stage and overcome stage fear, develop their personality and character and are groomed into fine personalities with high ethics and morale.

1999
KALAIMAMANI
The highest Tamil Nadu State Government award for distinguished excellence in arts.
2020
SPECIAL KALAIMAMANI
Specially instituted award, by Tamil Nadu State Government for exceptional and distinguished excellence and contribution to the arts.

2019
TAMIL NADU TOURISM AWARD
Selected as the best artist for the Tamil Nadu Tourism award for the year 2019.

OTHER PROMINENT AWARDS

Parvathi is a graded artiste with the Doordarshan, an empaneled artist with Indian Council for Culture relations, member of the International Dance Council (CID, UNESCO) and has served ABHAI (Association of Bharathanatyam Artists of India) as Secretary and later Vice President.

Akshaya Acharya Nipuna - 2025
Brahma Gana Sabha - 2024
Muthamizh Peraavai Ponvizha award - 2024
Women Achiever award, Swarna Bharath Trust from Hon'ble Former Vice President of India. Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu Garu - 2024
Sangeetha Kala Jothi- Suswaraa Awards
The Dance India Beacons Light Award - 2025
Satyakala Poshaka Sundaram- Bharathanjali
Life Time Achievement-Sunaada Trust
Nritya Ratna-Bharatiya Vidhya Bavan
Guinesss World Records - 2020
Guiness book of world records - Largest Bharathanatyam class in the world (organized by Thyagaya Charitable Trust fundraiser) - 2020
Certificate of Achievement & Contribution - Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada - 2017
Aacharya Choodamani, Sri Krishna Gana Sabha Trust, Chennai-2017
Woman achiever award - Ministry of Labour and Employment Government of India-2015
Kala Seva Bharati, Bharat Kalachar, Chennai 2012

Eminent Woman Achiever Award
Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai
Presented by former Governer His Excellency DR. K. Rosaih
Naatya Ilavarasi
Shanmukha Fine Arts, New Delhi
Acharya Kala Vipanchi
Vipanchi Cultural Academy, Chennai
Best Naatyacharya, Indian Fine Arts Association - Chennai
Padma Sadhana - Padma Sarangapani Trust, Chennai
Naatya Ratna - Indo American Culture and Religious Foundation USA
Naatya Mayuri - Chaitanya Theatre & Samaiyka Bharati, Hyderabad
Mahati Awards - Hyderabad
Vocational Excellence Award- Rotary Club of Chennai
Naatya Kalashiromani - Nungambakkam Cultural Academy - Chennai
Empanneled artist-I.C.C.R - Represented the Republic of India on cultural exchanges
Top Grade-Doordarshan