Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar is awarded to Satyabrata Rout…
Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar for the year
2016 goes to Satyabrata Rout.
He is a professor from the Department of
Theatre Arts, S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. He
has been awarded for developing a unique method of teaching and practicing
direction and design achieved from his experience. Satyabrata Rout is
pioneers of ‘visual theatre’ in India. He has a very good experience of
directing a number of plays, participating in national and international
theatre festivals and conducting so many theatre workshops across the world.
The “Akademi Award” is an award given by the
Sangeet Natak Akademi. This award is the highest Indian recognition given
to practicing artists.
The awards are being presented in the
categories of music, dance, theatre, other traditional arts and puppetry.