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The following is a list of the Gurus of the Lucknow Gharana, beginning with the disciples of Ishwari Prasad: [2] Wajid Ali Shah (1822 – 1887, Nawab of Oudh and patron of the arts) Lachhu Maharaj; Shambhu Maharaj; Maya Rao; Damayanti Joshi; Birju Maharaj; Sushmita Banerjee; Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak; Saswati Sen; Vibha Dadheech; Kathak ...
Rowshanara Moni – Bengali music singer and actress. In 2004, her debut album Nijhum Raat was released. [143] Schelim Hannan – Singer who was a member of boy band Worlds Apart from 1992 to 1997. [144] Shireen Jawad – Bengali folk singer. She has recorded three albums: 2007's Panjabiwala, 2009's Mathwali and 2014's Rangeela. [145]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Maya Rao (1928-2014), Kathak Guru and founder of NIKC, Bangalore [1] Fashion. Deepika Padukone;
At the oldest Kathak department which was formed in 1956 at Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya Public University located in Khairagarh, Puru Dadheech instated the first Kathak syllabus in 1961. [1] He is the holder of the first Doctorate in Kathak Classical Dance and emphasizes the relevance of Shastras (Indian Ancient Dance treatises like ...
Born in Calcutta, Das was a performer, choreographer, composer and educator. He was instrumental in bringing Kathak to the US [1] and is credited with having established Kathak amongst the Indian diaspora in America. [2] In 1979, Das established the Chhandam School of Kathak and the Chitresh Das Dance Company in California. In 2002, he founded ...
Prerana Shrimali is a senior dancer of Jaipur Gharana of Kathak. [1] Born in Banswara in Rajasthan, Shrimati Prerana Shrimali was initiated in Kathak dance by Guru Shri Kundan lal Gangani in Jaipur. [2] Later, she was groomed in the art at Kathak Kendra, New Delhi, under the same Guru late Shri Kundan Lal Gangani of the Jaipur gharana.
Sunayana Hazarilal, née Sunayana Agarwal, was born in Mumbai to a Railway officer and started learning classical dance from an early age. [4] Refusing to move out of Mumbai to learn Kathak when her father was transferred elsewhere, she practised under the tutelage of Guru Hazarilal who was a known exponent of the Benaras Jankiprasad Gharana.
Maharaj started teaching the dance form at the age of thirteen, at the Sangeet Bharti in New Delhi.He then taught at the Bharatiya Kala Kendra in Delhi, and at the Kathak Kendra (a unit of the Sangeet Natak Akademi) where he was Head of Faculty, and director, retiring in 1998 [9] after which he opened his own dance school, Kalashram, also in Delhi.