Famous People with Name Guru

Guru Gopinath            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Guru Gopinath: an Indian classical dancer, Kathakali master and mentor of a relatively new creative modern dancing style, Kerala Natanam. A dance museum is comig up as his memorial at Trivandrum . The cultural department Kerala Govt. has already established a dance village named 'Guru Gopinath Natanagramam'.He is considered one of the epic personalities of Indian dancing in the twentieth century like Uday Shankar. He carved out a style of dancing fit for the modern day, classical in form but popular in appeal, through which the fame of Kathakali spread far and wide in the beginning of the 1930s.

Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra: was a Indian classical dancer, guru and proponent of Odissi dance, who is credited for the revival of the classical dance form in the 20th century [2].Among the many gems of Orissa has produced in different fields of art along the centuries, one of the latest is certainly the Odissi dance Guru Sri Kelucharan Mohapatra born on 8th January 1926 at Raghurajpur, Puri. As it is the case with most of the geniuses, who emerge from time to time in the history of humanity, the story of his life is one of struggle and unending dedication. The story of his artistic experience touches all the salient features of the cultural life of Orissa of the last sixty years and it becomes the story of the growth and recognition of the Odissi style as one of the classical dances of India.