Sukanya dancing Orissi
Habib Rahman photo
About Sukanya
Sukanya Rahman, dancer and visual artist, was born in Calcutta, India, in 1946. She studied painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris and the College of Art in Delhi.
Before leaping into the Indian dance tradition of her grandmother and mother, she studied American modern dance with Martha Graham.
She and her playwright husband, Frank Wicks, live on an island in Maine and have two sons, Habib and Wardreath and two grandchildren, Jake and Sarah.
This is Sukanya's first book.
Sukanya's parents, Habib and Indrani Rahman, Juhu Beach, Bombay.