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Why Learn Kathak

Here are the few reasons why you should learn Kathak.

Why Learn Kathak?Learning Kathak offers a great opportunity to learn Indian culture and heritage. Kathak means "to tell the story". This means the young children being brought up outside India learn a lot about India's great historical figures, learn about Ramayana, Mahabharata and other epic stories.
Kathak gives emphasis on poses, expressions, grace, hand, eye and body movements and footwork. This makes your body look younger, loose body weight and brings lot of excitement in life. Within no time you will discover that you have become more active and full of energy. The whole experience is very spiritual and rewarding.
Kathak learning makes you audaciousLearning Kathak offers opportunity to perform on stage and various other events. This makes you audacious from early stages of life. Once built this quality helps in every stage in life not only for dancing but for making powerful presentations and facing large crowds. It definitely makes you more and more self confident.
Kathak dancing relieves everyday stressLearning Kathak is a good way of relieving everyday stress. While doing Kathak you will forget about worries, distractions in normal life. It helps internally to overcome physical and mental tension.
Taking lessons in group offers an opportunity to meet like minded people, make friendship and learn teamwork. The success of group performance depends on every individual and you learn a lot which helps in everyday life.
Once learned you will be able to perform dances based on various types of music such as bollywood songs, folk songs, flamenco and Jazz. Kathak is foundation of most of the popular bollywood songs. Remember...Madhuri Dixit dancing on the tune of "Kaahe Chhed Mohe" in popular bollywood movie "Devdas"? This is good way of displaying your talent at weddings, family gatherings, corporate or local temple events.
Indian Classical Dance School ChicagoPerforming for charity events offers another way to help those in need and you will realize that it is so simple to do something like this but has lot of value in terms of social obligations.

Learning Kathak offers a great opportunity to learn Indian culture and heritage. Kathak means "to tell the story". This means the young children being brought up outside India learn a lot about India's great historical figures, learn about Ramayana, Mahabharata and other epic stories.

Kathak gives emphasis on poses, expressions, grace, hand, eye and body movements and footwork. This makes your body look younger, loose body weight and brings lot of excitement in life. Within no time you will discover that you have become more active and full of energy. The whole experience is very spiritual and rewarding.

Kathak learning makes you audacious. Learning Kathak offers opportunity to perform on stage and various other events. This makes you audacious from early stages of life. Once built this quality helps in every stage in life not only for dancing but for making powerful presentations and facing large crowds. It definitely makes you more and more self confident.

Kathak dancing relieves everyday stress. Learning Kathak is a good way of relieving everyday stress. While doing Kathak you will forget about worries, distractions in normal life. It helps internally to overcome physical and mental tension.

Taking lessons in group offers an opportunity to meet like minded people, make friendship and learn teamwork. The success of group performance depends on every individual and you learn a lot which helps in everyday life.

Once learned you will be able to perform dances based on various types of music such as bollywood songs, folk songs, flamenco and Jazz. Kathak is foundation of most of the popular bollywood songs. Remember...Madhuri Dixit dancing on the tune of "Kaahe Chhed Mohe" in popular bollywood movie "Devdas"? This is good way of displaying your talent at weddings, family gatherings, corporate or local temple events.

 
  • Shivangi Posing Backstage

    Shivangi has been awarded a National Scholarship in the field of Kathak by the Ministry of Tourism & Culture (Govt. Of India).

  • Shivangi Dake

    Shivangi has received the title of 'Nritya Shree' in a national dance and music festival held in Katni (M.P.).

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  • Shivangi with Maharajji

    It was a moment of sheer joy for Shivangi to meet her mentor and idol Pt. Birju Maharaj during his workshop in Mumbai in June 2009.