2008 – Saroja Vaidyanathan 2009 – Ananda Shankar Jayant 2011 – Narthaki Nataraj (First Transgender to receive SN Akademi Award) 2012 – Priyadarsini Govind 2013 – Jamuna Krishnan, B. Herabhanathan 2014 – Adayar Janardanan 2015 – Ranganayaki Jayaraman 2016 – Geeta Chandran 2017 – Rama Vaidyanathan 2018 – Radha Sridhar 2019 – Vasundhara Doraswamy 2020 – Meenakshi Chitharanjan 2021 – Jayalakshmi Eshwar Chhau 1963 – Sudhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Seraikella) 1971 – Ananta Charan Sai (Mayurbhanj) 1975 – Krishna Chandra Naik (Mayurbhanj) 1981 – Kedar Nath Sahoo (Seraikella) 1982 – Gambhir Singh Mura (Purulia) 1987 – Madan Mohan Lenka (Mayurbhanj) 1988 – Srihari Nayak (Mayurbhanj) 1990 – Bikram Kumbhakar (Seraikella) 1991 – Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Mayurbhanj) 2004 – Shashadhar Acharya 2012 – Jai Narayan Samal 2014 – Jagru Mahato 2015 – Sadashiva Pradhan 2016 – Gopal Prasad Dubey 2017 – Janmajay Saibabu 2018 – Tapan Kumar Pattanayak (Seraikella) 2019 – Brajendra Kumar Pattnaik 2020 – Trilochan Mohanta 2021 – Bhuvan Kumar Creative dance/Choreography 1960 – Uday Shankar 1970 – Mrinalini Sarabhai 1976 – Narendra Sharma 1979 – Prabhat Ganguli 1980 – R. K. Priyagopal Sana 1981 – Parvati Kumar 1984 – Rajkumar Singhajit Singh 1989 – Maya Rao 1991 – Chandralekha 1992 – Sachin Shankar 1993 – Manjusri Chaki Sircar 1995 – Astad Deboo 1999–2000 Mallika Sarabhai 2001 – Gul Bardhan 2002 – Sambhu Bhattacharya 2005 – Th. Chaotombi Singh 2006 – Gorima Hazarika 2008 – Yogsunder Desai 2009 – Daksha Sheth 2010 – Uttara Asha Coorlawala 2011 – Tanushree Shankar 2014 – Navtej Singh Johar 2015 – W. Lokendrajit Singh 2016 – Anita Ratnam 2018 – Deepak Mazumdar 2019 – Mamata Shankar 2020 – Bhushan Lakhandri Kathak 1955 – Shambhu Maharaj 1957 – Baijnath Prasad "Lacchu Maharaj" 1959 – Sunder Prasad 1962 – Mohanrao Kallianpurkar 1964 – Birju Maharaj 1968 – Damayanti Joshi 1969 – Sitara Devi 1974 – Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak 1975 – Roshan Kumari 1979 – Rohini Bhate 1982 – Kartik Ram, Kumudini Lakhia 1984 – Durga Lal 1987 – Uma Sharma 1991 – Reba Vidyarthi 1995 – Ramlal Bareth 1996 – Rani Karnaa 1998 – Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani 1999–2000 – Shovana Narayan 2000 – Surendra Saikia 2002 – Rajendra Gangani 2003 – Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar 2004 – Saswati Sen 2005 – Tirath Ram Azad 2006 – Munna Shukla 2007 – Geetanjali Lal 2008 – Shashi Sankhla 2009 – Prerana Shrimali 2010 – Malabika