List of Kathak dancers explained

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

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• Shambhu Maharaj 1955
• Sunder Prasad 1959
• Mohanrao Kallianpurkar 1962
• Birju Maharaj 1964
• Damayanti Joshi 1968
• Sitara Devi 1969
• Roshan Kumari 1975
• Rohini Bhate 1979
• Kumudini Lakhia 1982
• Durga Lal 1984
• Uma Sharma 1987
• Maya Rao 1989
• Rani Karnaa 1996
• Shovana Narayan 1999-2000
• Rajendra Gangani 2002
• Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal 2003
• Saswati Sen 2004
• Munna Shukla 2006
• Geetanjali Lal 2007
• Shashi Sankhla 2008
• Prerana Shrimali 2009
• Vijay Shankar 2012
• Uma Dogra 2014
• Jitendra Maharaj 2016
• Puru Dadheech 2018
• Nandkishore Kapote 2020

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
• Bhanuji Maharaj - Founder: Jaipur Gharana
• Janaki Prasad - Founder: Banaras Gharana

Lucknow gharana

The following is a list of the Gurus of the Lucknow Gharana, beginning with the disciples of Ishwari Prasad:^[2]

• Wajid Ali Shah (1822 – 1887, Nawab of Oudh and patron of the arts)
• Lachhu Maharaj
• Shambhu Maharaj
• Maya Rao
• Damayanti Joshi
• Birju Maharaj
• Sushmita Banerjee
  • Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak Saswati Sen
• Vibha Dadheech
  • Munna Shukla Krishan Mohan Maharaj
• Ram Mohan Maharaj
• Smt.Vaswati Mishra
• Nandkishore Kapote
• Shila Mehta
• Prerana Deshpande
• Gauri Jog
• Sushmita Banerjee
• Deepa Devasena
• Manjari Chaturvedi
• Pali Chandra

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:^[2]

• 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
• Arjun Mishra

Current elder/senior gurus

• ANIRUDH KUMAR SINGH PATNA
• 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
• Guru Marami Medhi

Younger artists

• Jaya Sharma
• Prerana Deshpande
  • Manisha Gulyani Neha Pendse
• Akram Khan (dancer)
• Chitresh Das
• Satya Narayana Charka
• Cynthia Ling Lee
• Anshika Kataria
• Meenakshi J Kamath

Notes and References

1. Web site: SNA List of Awardees . www.sangeetnatak.gov.in . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160817135029/http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/Awardees.php . 2016-08-17.
2. Web site: Gharanas of Kathak. Nad Sadhna website. 2 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714145914/http://www.nadsadhna.com/pages/IndianMusic/Dance.asp?About=Gharanas. 2011-07-14. dead.