A beautiful trio Kathak performance at Duet Dance Festival

Mesmerizing Kathak performance by the Disciple of Padma Bhushan Uma Sharma in Duet Dance Festival at Triveni Auditorium.

Rag Virag, a non-profitable registered organization presents a Duet Dance Festival in New Delhi at Triveni auditorium on 22nd February 2014, representing a various selections of Kathak dances.

Uma Sharma (born 1942) is the foremost Indian exponent of the Kathak form of Indian classical dance. She is also runs the Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan, Delhi, a classical dance and music academy, situated in New Delhi, founded by her father in 1946. She is most known for reviving the old classical dance form of Natwari Nritya or the Raslila of Brindavan, which later evolved into the Kathak.

Kathak is based on devotional Krishna poetry of the medieval centuries and the highly cultivated court poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries which celebrated shringara, the sentiment of love.

Born in Delhi in 1942, Uma Sharma received her dance training from Guru Hiralalji and Girvar Dayal of the Jaipur gharana, and subsequently she became a student of Pandit Sunder Prasad of the Jaipur gharana who emphasised rhythmic footwork and its permutations., Shambhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj noted gurus of the Kathak tradition of the Lucknow gharana, known for the art of abhinaya, subsequently Uma Sharma sought to achieve a creative fusion of the two.

In 1973 she became the youngest dancer be conferred upon with the Padma Shri by Government of India, and Padma Bhushan 2001. She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and also the Sahitya Kala Parishad Award. On 27th Jan'2013 she has been honoured with title Srijan Manishi by Akhil Bhartiya Vikram Parishad, Kashi for her great contribution to Indian Katthak Dance.

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