Vidyagauri Adkar

 Vidyagauri Adkar

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Vidyagauri Adkar is a Kathak dance exponent from Mumbai. She specializes and performs in Jaipur Gharana of Kathak. She has performed in many elite cultural events and music & dance festivals across India. Chilanka Dance Festival in Thiruvananthapuram, Festival of Dance and Music Delhi, Khajuraho Festival of Dances, Kathak Prabha – Festival of India in South Africa, Kathak Mahotsava 2012, Delhi, "Anvarat" Kathak performance etc are some of the cultural events in which Vidyagauri Adkar performed her dance form. She is associated with live performances for the past 10 years, and one of the promising young Kathak dancers of today.

 

Vidyagauri Adkar hails from Mumbai, Maharashtra. She started formal training in Kathak from Borivali, Mumbai, followed by Pune, where she did her academic studies. She is also a brilliant student in studies, and is the rank holder of MSc Mathematics from Pune University. For higher studies she moved to Delhi, and since then she is regular with her live concerts. She is one of talented young Kathak artists of present-day generation. She has been performing live for concerts for the past one decade or so. Apart from India, she has also performed in South Africa. She has performed in almost all major cities, which promote cultural events.

 

She has been a part of Chilanka Dance Festival in Thiruvananthapuram organised by the Vyloppilly Samskriti Bhavan, which featured promising dancers performing different classical dances of India. It provided a platform for a young generation of classical dancers, to made debut in Thiruvananthapuram. She performed aside Mujaffar Mullah, representing the Jaipur Gharana and the duo exhibited grace, speed and synchronization. Vidyagauri evoked moods of sringara, hasya and vatsalya for ‘Jhanak Shyam ki painjaniya’, and it was a delight to watch.

Published: September 12, 2018

Updated: September 12, 2018

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