Aparna Satheesan is honored with Bharata Shastra Nritya Praveena National Award 2021

Aparna Satheesan

All India Dancer's Association [AIDA] is a non-profit organization in India and its purpose is to showcase "Unity in Diversity" through arts and it serves the purpose through cultural activities. AIDA organizes the 10-day dance and music festival every year promoting different classical Indian dance forms and music, and also honoring eminent artists in the field. This award has been given in the past to outstanding Indian classical dance performers of India and abroad. Aparna Satheesan had also won first place in Kuchipudi at the International level dance competition by AIDA in 2021.

Aparna has also won the prestigious National Natya Shiromani Award by the India Festival USA for her exceptional achievements in the field of dance and for her charity work through the project "Transforming Life Through Dance", organizing multiple fundraising events to give back to the society, under Samyoga Foundation which was founded in India in 2015, in memory of her father G.Satheesan and the event was officially inaugurated by Princess of Travancore, Her Highness Aswathi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi. She is also a winner of the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana International Bharatnatyam competition in the USA and awarded the Kuchipudi fellowship by the famous IndianRaga.