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7nd January 2008
Panelist on International Seminar on ‘ Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

12th January 2008
‘Roko Cancer’, Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

25th January 2008
Republic Day Programme, ONGC, Dehradun.

26th January 2008
Chief Guest for Flag Hoisting in School, Noida.

26th January 2008
Republic Day Programme by Shovana’s ASAVARI group, Ashoka Theatre, New Delhi.

7th February, 2008
Shovana & group at Pinjore Festival

8th February, 2008
Magh Mela Festival, Allahabad.

9th February, 2008
Panelist on International Seminar on ‘Margins & Spaces – Aesthetics of Cultural Expressions’, Jaipur University, Jaipur.

15th February, 2008
NSIT, Dwarka, New Delhi, Spicmacay’s Whole Night Festival Series.

22th February, 2008
Spicmacay, Kanpur (FN).

22th February, 2008
IIT, Kanpur.

23th February, 2008
Spicmacay, Kanpur (FN).

23th February, 2008
Spicmacay, Kanpur (midday).

1st March, 2008
Khajuraho Mahotsava, Khajuraho (c/o MP Kala Parishad)

2nd March, 2008
Lec-Dem on Kathak, Khajuraho.

4th March, 2008
International ONGC Conclave, Mumbai.

5th March, 2008
Shovana’s ASAVARI group at Mathura.

14th March, 2008
Kathak Mahotsava, Ravindra Manch, Jaipur.

15th March, 2008
Champaran Music & Dance Festival, Motihari.

23th March, 2008
The Golden Ovary Award, Shangrila Hotel, New Delhi Theme on Identity of a Woman – ‘Koham’.


24th March, 2008
Panelist on ‘Inter-relationship of Arts in the backdrop of Folk Arts’, NCZCC Seminar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

3rd April, 2008
2nd Grand Art Festival, The Grand Temple View, Khajuraho, 8.30pm.

5th April, 2008
Guest-Speaker, Chennai.

12th April, 2008
Dance Theatre ‘Yudhishthir & Draupadi’, Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 7pm.


29th April, 2008
‘Dance of the Soul’, Kathak to Russian Choir ‘Sirin’, Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi, 6.30 pm.
Press Reviews
“Her feet dance, her eyes and hands do the talking….. fascinating experience as she executed aamad, that, tode, tukde and paranas with an electrifying display of footwork, body gestures employing the eyes, neck, chest, lips, hands in perfect coordination….through a mesmerizing dancing spell….”
(S.D.Sharma, Indian Express, Chandigarh)
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Guru Shovana Narayan (Kathak Maestro)

Guru Shovana Narayan (Padmashri) is today, a venerated Kathak Maestro of India and an outstanding dancer ‘par excellence’. She has also become a living legend, a virtuoso who has blazed a trail in Kathak, re-defining the ethos and vocabulary of Kathak bestowing it with dignity and enriching it with a deeper and wider canvas of expression and dimensions.

The last three and half decades have seen her mesmerizing audiences in several national and international festivals in India as well as abroad. In appearance, she represents a Mughal miniature and is a personification of elegance, sensitivity and grace, yet she is a storehouse of talent and a pillar of inner strength and determination, both of which succeed in endowing her with a strangely brilliant luminosity. Shovana, one of the foremost and most celebrated disciples of the maestro, Pt. Birju Maharaj at Delhi, was initiated into Kathak as a child at the tender age of four, by the well-known dancer-actress of yester-years, Sadhana Bose at Calcutta and by Guru Kundanlal at Bombay. Her style represents a crystallisation of combined techniques acquired from the sophisticated elegance of the Lucknow gharana and the rhythmic precision of the Jaipur school . Her approach also bears the stamp of a mind influenced by the cultures of the world, projecting an individualistic attitude to the dance form that bring new pictures to the mind.
Prime Donna of Kathak : “Shovana, the reigning Queen of Kathak… A Soul Stirring Performer”   “ .. Shovana’s feet not just danced and pirouetted but they spoke a hundred things …”  “….a fiery & dynamic dancer…” “… set the stage afire….”  “ .. a poetic expression .. had stepped out of a fine painting ..”  
 
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