Scholar, Teacher, Performing Artist and Cinema
Sharon Lowen has dedicated her life to presenting and promoting excellence in Indian performing arts. Sharon is hailed today as one of the leading international performing artists of three forms of Indian dance: Odissi, Chhau and Manipuri. Sharon has made her home in India since 1973 to dedicate herself to her work as an artist and to promote education in the arts.
Her accomplishment in a place where foreign exponents of indigenous dance forms are rarely taken seriously. But once Lowen came to India 25 years ago and devoted herself to Indian classical dance, her tenacity and perfectionism have earned the respect of audiences and critics alike in her adopted country.
She portrayed a real life character in Indian Cinema, in a Telugu film - Swarnakamalam which means "Golden Lotus". The film was directed by K. Viswanath. In the film she over-looks the lead actress public dancing performance and gets disturbed by the way she loses her focus on dance and involved in other things like posing for a photographer, etc. and the next day Sharon Lowen performs an Odissi dance and mesmerizes the audience in the film.
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