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Padma Subrahmanyam who received the first 'Natya Kala Acharya' Award at 6th Dance Festival organised by Music Academy in Chennai, is an outstanding exponent of the art of __________.

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Kuchipudi
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Kathakali
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Mohiniyattam
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Bharatanatyam
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Solution

The correct option is D Bharatanatyam
Instituted in 2012 by Dr Engikollai Krishnan and Dr Leela Krishnan in the memory of Smt Meenakshi and Mysore Asthana Vidwan Engikollai Chidambara Ganapatigal, the Natya Kala Acharya Award is conferred each year in January on a senior dancer at the inauguration of the annual dance festival. Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam is acclaimed as a rare combination of a dancer, research scholar, choreographer, singer, music composer, teacher, author and indologist. Bharatnatyam is one among the foremost common classical Indian dances kind. It is principally common in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and its province and is nearly 2,000 years old.

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