Question: Where did the style of dance of which Aniruddha Knight is an artist originate?

<P0-S0>  He is a 9th-generation descendant of a 200-year-old family of dancers and musicians from southern India. <P0-S1>  The dances are traditionally performed by women - Knight is unusually the first male of his family to take up this style of dance. <P0-S2>  His grandmother Balasaraswati was a celebrated and prolific dancer, "Newsweek" said she has been "recognized as the greatest Indian dancer of all time". <P0-S3> Aniruddha Knight (November 13, 1980) is an artist of South Asian classical dance and music known as Bharatanatyam. <SEP> <P1-S0> Raphael Xavier Williams (born December 7, 1970) is known as an Inmoc-ographer (innovative movement conceptualist). <P1-S1>  He is a professional breaker/dancer, rapper, music producer, comedian, photographer, author and multifaceted artist. <P1-S2>  He is known for re-invigorating the B-boying community in Philadelphia. <P1-S3>  He started choreographing dance with the Brandywine School of Ballet in 1995. <P1-S4>  He then became recognized as a theatre artist when he joined Rennie Harris Puremovement, the longest running Hip-Hop dance company, in their production of "Rome & Jewels" in 1997. <P1-S5>  He moved to the role of Tybalt shortly after. <P1-S6>  He would continue on to become a core member of the RHPM company and is now an alumnus. <P1-S7>  He has received many awards and recognition for his choreographic work from 1999 to the present and for various projects he has worked on including: music recordings and compositions, film, and photography. <P1-S8>  Raphael gives lectures and dance classes internationally on Hip-Hop and its history. <P1-S9>  In 2013, Raphael was honored with a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award. <P1-S10>  He is a 2016 Guggenheim fellow and a 2016 United States Artist Knight fellow. <P1-S11>  He is also An appointed professor at Princeton University teaching special topics in hip hop dance with a focus on Breaking. <SEP> <P2-S0>  Traditionally, Bharatanatyam has been a solo dance that was performed exclusively by women, and expressed Hindu religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of Shaivism, but also of Vaishnavism and Shaktism. <P2-S1> Bharatanatyam, sometimes referred to as Bharathanatiyam or Sadir, is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. <SEP> <P3-S0> Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight (born May 17, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer of the boy band New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s. <P3-S1>  He is best known for his distinctive falsetto style of singing, influenced by The Stylistics. <P3-S2>  After New Kids on the Block split in 1994, he launched a solo career. <P3-S3>  Jordan's first solo album, released in 1999, and his latest solo album, released in 2011, reached the Top 50 on the US "Billboard" 200. <P3-S4>  As of 2011, he released four Top 40 singles; the most well known being "Give It to You" in 1999. <P3-S5>  Knight has released three solo albums, one remix album and one EP. <P3-S6>  On May 31, 2011, Knight released the studio album, "Unfinished". <P3-S7>  Knight has sold over 1.5 million records worldwide as a solo artist. <P3-S8>  In 2015, Boston City Council declared February 7 "Jordan Knight Day."