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7 nd January 2008
Panelist on International Seminar on ‘ Stein Auditorium, India
Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
12 th January 2008
‘Roko Cancer’, Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
25 th January 2008
Republic Day Programme, ONGC, Dehradun.
26 th January 2008
Chief Guest for Flag Hoisting in School, Noida.
26 th January 2008
Republic Day Programme by Shovana’s ASAVARI group, Ashoka
Theatre, New Delhi.
7 th February, 2008
Shovana & group at Pinjore Festival
8 th February, 2008
Magh Mela Festival, Allahabad.
9 th February, 2008
Panelist on International Seminar on ‘Margins & Spaces –
Aesthetics of Cultural Expressions’, Jaipur University, Jaipur.
15 th February, 2008
NSIT, Dwarka, New Delhi, Spicmacay’s Whole Night Festival
Series.
22 th February, 2008
Spicmacay, Kanpur (FN).
22 th February, 2008
IIT, Kanpur.
23 th February, 2008
Spicmacay, Kanpur (FN).
23 th February, 2008
Spicmacay, Kanpur (midday).
1 st March, 2008
Khajuraho Mahotsava, Khajuraho (c/o MP Kala Parishad)
2 nd March, 2008
Lec-Dem on Kathak, Khajuraho.
4 th March, 2008
International ONGC Conclave, Mumbai.
5 th March, 2008
Shovana’s ASAVARI group at Mathura.
14 th March, 2008
Kathak Mahotsava, Ravindra Manch, Jaipur.
15 th 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’.
24 th March, 2008
Panelist on ‘Inter-relationship of Arts in the backdrop of Folk
Arts’, NCZCC Seminar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
3 rd April, 2008
2 nd Grand Art Festival, The Grand Temple View, Khajuraho,
8.30pm.
5 th 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.
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“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.
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