Bharatanatyam legend Yamini Krishnamurti dies at 84

NEW DELHI: Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi veteran Yamini Krishnamurti died at the Apollo hospital here on Saturday.

She was 84.

“She was suffering from age-related issues and was in the ICU for the last seven months,” Krishnamurti’s manager and secretary Ganesh told PTI.

Krishnamurti’s mortal remains will be brought to her institute — Yamini School of Dance at Hauz Khas — at 9 am on Sunday.

The details of her last rites are yet to be finalised.

Krishnamurti is survived by two sisters.

Born on December 20, 1940 in Madanapalli in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district to Sanskrit scholar M Krishnamurti, she took to dance at the tender age of five at the Kalakshetra School of Dance in Chennai under the tutelage of legendary Bharatanatyam dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale.

Also proficient in the form of Kuchipudi, Krishnamurti expanded her horizon by learning Odissi from the likes of Pankaj Charan Das and Kelucharan Mohapatra.