{"id":171391474,"date":"2025-09-17T02:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/GLOBAL_INDIAN_ARTIST\/?post_type=collaborator&#038;p=171391450"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:11:07","slug":"anita-vallabh-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"collaborator","link":"https:\/\/mediamax.design\/gia\/collaborator\/anita-vallabh-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Vallabh, Ph.D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anita Vallabh is a classical Indian dancer turned critic, cultural commentator, and editorial curator of Global Indian Artist LLC \u2014 a platform where diaspora, dance, and dialogue converge. With a Ph.D. in the performing arts and years of writing for <em>Narthaki.com<\/em> and <em>Sruti<\/em>, her work bridges tradition and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is the author of three books: <em>Message in Movements: The Essence of Bharatanatyam<\/em> (2008), <em>Abhinaya Darpanam: An Illustrated Translation<\/em> (2012, now in its 4th edition), and <em>You Are Your Desires: How an Ancient Indian Wisdom Template Will Help You Tap into Your Desires and Shape Your Destiny<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her contributions to Indian dance have been recognized through multiple honors: the National Award for Best Dancer (1992\u20131993) from the National Hindi Academy, Calcutta, with the title <em>Kala Bharati<\/em>; the title <em>Bharatanatya Pracharamani<\/em> from the Tamil Association in Myanmar for her pioneering work in schools at Yangon; and the Certificate of Honor (2011) from the Council of the City and County of Honolulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":171391534,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-171391474","collaborator","type-collaborator","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamax.design\/gia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collaborator\/171391474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamax.design\/gia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collaborator"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamax.design\/gia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collaborator"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamax.design\/gia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171391534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamax.design\/gia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171391474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}