List of Kathak dancers

This is a list of the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards for the Indian classical dance form of Kathak , as well as gurus and well-known performers.

Sangeet Natak Akademi awardees

Dancer Shovana Narayan

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• Shambhu Maharaj 1955
• Lacchu Maharaj 1957
• Sunder Prasad 1959
• Mohanrao Kallianpurkar 1962
• Birju Maharaj 1964
• Damayanti Joshi 1968
• Sitara Devi 1969
• Devilal 1974
• Roshan Kumari 1975
• Rohini Bhate 1979
• Pt. Kartik Ram, Kumudini Lakhia 1982
• Durga Lal 1984
• Uma Sharma 1987
• Reba Vidyarthi 1991
• Ramlal Bareth 1995
• Maya Rao 1989
• Rani Karnaa 1996
• Shovana Narayan 1999-2000
• Guru Surendra Saikia 2000
• Rajendra Gangani 2002
• Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar 2003
• Saswati Sen 2004
• Pt.Tirath Ram Azad 2005
• Munna Shukla 2006
• Geetanjali Lal 2007
• Shashi Sankhla 2008
• Prerana Shrimali 2009
• Malabika Mitra 2010
• Manjushree Chatterjee 2011
• Vijai Shankar 2012 ^[2]
• Rajashree Shirke 2013
• Uma Dogra 2014
• Jitendra Maharaj 2016
• Shobha Koser 2017
• Maulik Shah, Ishira Parikh 2018
• Puru Dadheech 2018
• Raghav Raj Bhatt & Mangala Bhatt 2019
• Kumkum Dhar 2020
• Nandkishore Kapote 2020
• Shama Bhate 2021
• Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana 2022
• Jagdish Gangani 2023

Padma awardees

• Shambhu Maharaj
• Damayanti Joshi
• Sitara Devi
• Uma Sharma
• Gopi Krishna (dancer)
• Roshan Kumari
• Birju Maharaj
• Kumudini Lakhia
• Shovana Narayan
• Sunayana Hazarilal
• Rani Karnaa
• Puru Dadheech
• Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana

Gharana founders

• Ishwari Prasad - Founder:Lucknow Gharana
• Raja Chakradhar Singh - Founder: Raigarh Gharana

Lucknow gharana

The following is a list of the Gurus of the Lucknow Gharana, beginning with the disciples of Ishwari Prasad: ^[3]

• Wajid Ali Shah (1822 – 1887, Nawab of Oudh and patron of the arts)
• Lachhu Maharaj
• Shambhu Maharaj
• Maya Rao
• Damayanti Joshi
• Birju Maharaj
• Ram Mohan Maharaj
• Sushmita Banerjee
• Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak
• Saswati Sen
• Vibha Dadheech

Kathak Dancer Namrata Rai

• Munna Shukla
• Nandkishore Kapote
• Mahua Shankar
• Shila Mehta
• Prerana Deshpande
• Gauri Jog
• Sushmita Banerjee
• Kumkum Dhar
• Deepa Devasena
• Manjari Chaturvedi
• Pali Chandra
• Namrata Rai ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Jaipur gharana

• Sunder Prasad (Sundar Chunnilal Prasad)
• Puru Dadheech
• Mangala Bhatt
• Pandit Bhanuji Maharaj
• Kundan Lal Gangani
• Durga Lal-Devi Lal
• Geetanjali Lal
• Rajendra Gangani

Banaras gharana

The following is a list of the gurus of the Benaras Gharana, beginning with the disciples of Janaki Prasad: ^[3]

• Sitara Devi, daughter of Sukhdev
• Jitendra maharaj Disciple of Krishna Kumar maharaj
• Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana
• Gopi Krishna

Gurus (deceased)

• Damayanti Joshi
• Rohini Bhate
• Chitresh Das
• Rani Karnaa
• Maya Rao
• Birju Maharaj

Current elder/senior gurus

• Roshan Kumari
• Puru Dadheech
• Nahid Siddiqui
• Kumudini Lakhia
• Maya Rao (1928-2014)
• Nirupama Rajendra
• Nandini Singh
• Geetanjali Lal
• Shama Bhate
• Prerana Shrimali
• Nandkishore Kapote
• Saswati Sen
• Rajendra Gangani
• Shovana Narayan
• Pali Chandra
• Prof.Purnima Pande
• Marami Medhi

Younger artists

• Maryada Kulshreastha
• Jaya Sharma
• Prerana Deshpande
• Manisha Gulyani
• Neha Pendse
• Akram Khan (dancer)
• Chitresh Das
• Satya Narayana Charka
• Cynthia Ling Lee
• Meenakshi J Kamath
• Swati S Kolle
• Meghranjani Medhi
• Anshika Kataria

References

1. "SNA || List of Awardees". www.sangeetnatak.gov.in. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016.
2. "Vijai Shankar - Akademi Award: Kathak" (PDF). www.sangeetnatak.gov.in.
3. "Gharanas of Kathak". Nad Sadhna website. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
4. "Namrata Rai: Uniting Cultures with Kathak". 8 July 2024.
5. "Namrata Rai- Famous Kathak Dancer in India". www.namratarai.com.
6. "Kathak dancer, Namrata Rai performs in front of the 1000 year old". 21 January 2014.
7. "Namrata Rai". 25 October 2008.
8. "C.G.I.Birgunj organized a Kathak Dance performance by Ms. Namrata Rai & her troups". 28 January 2023.