Ram Gopal (dancer)
Bissano Ram Gopal OBE (20 November 1912 – October 12, 2003) was an Indian dancer and choreographer who performed mostly as a soloist and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. A modernist, he blended the classical Indian dance with balletic choreography, and along with Uday Shankar was among the first to showcase Indian classical dance in the West starting in the 1930s, Polish critic Tadeusz Zelenski called him "the Nijinsky of India".
As a choreographer, he is most known for his productions, Legend of the Taj Mahal, Dance of the Setting Sun and Dances of India. He is also noted for his collaboration, "Radha-Krishna" with British ballerina, Dame Alicia Markova in 1960.
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