Скачать или смотреть Guru Rekha Nadgauda, Disciple of Natraj Pt. Gopi Krishna, Banaras Gharana!

Guru Rekha Nadgauda was introduced to Kathak by her mother when she was seven years old. Her first guru was Master Hyder Sheikh in Nashik. Later she trained under Natraj Pt. Gopi Krishna ji from 1969 to 1975. After that, in 1976, she started her own dance institute in the same school premises where she learned dance. Kirti Kala Mandir institute in Nashik currently running more than 40 years. The institute has branched out in Nashik and also has a branch in London. In the meantime, she gained a new perspective of laya and taal from Pt Shama Tai Bhate.

Two of her teachers, Kumud Abhyankar and Radhika Raj Pathak, supported her a lot. Radhika also created a three-hour show on Ramayana in 1984, and they together did sixteen shows of it in Nashik itself and also performed the same in Mumbai and Pune too.

As creativity in kathak she expressed epics like the stories of Lord Rama in ballet forms, chose bhajans and abhangas to convey the spirituality through dance as well as presented poems of Kusumagraj, Tagore and bandishs of Pt Paluskar through Kathak.

Videos are from her youtube channel of Kirti Kala Mandir.