Bharatanatyam veteran Yamini Krishnamurthy died at the Apollo hospital in New Delhi on August 3. She was 84. “She was suffering from age-related issues and was in the ICU for the last seven months,”
Popular dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy passed away. She is 84 years old. She breathed her last at Apollo Hospital in Delhi today. Yamini Krishnamurthy is famous in Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dance styles.

She was born in 1940 in Madanapalle. Renowned dancer and guru Rukmini Devi studied under Arundel. He gave his first dance performance in Chennai in 1957. He received Padma Shri in 1968, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1977 and Padma Vibhushan in 2016.
Yamini Krishnamurthy also served as the court dancer of TTD. She has also mastered the Odissi style of dance.

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