Ram Gopal (dancer)

Indian dancer and choreographer (1912–2003)

Bissano Ram Gopal OBE (20 November 1912 – 12 October 2003) was an Indian dancer and choreographer who performed mostly as a soloist and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. A modernist, he blended classical Indian dance styles, folk dance and balletic choreography, and along with Uday Shankar was among the first to showcase Indian classical dance in the West starting in the 1930s, Polish critic Tadeusz Zelenski called him "the Nijinsky of India". As a choreographer, he is most known for his productions, Legend of the Taj Mahal, and Dances of India, and solo items Dance of the Setting Sun and Garuda.

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