The Neemrana Music Foundation presents a Kathak Festival, celebrating 50 years of Kathak Kendra with Prerna Shrimali from Jaipur Gharana in a solo kathak dance recital at Neemrana Fort - Palace.

A senior dancer of the Jaipur Gharana of Kathak, Prerna Shrimali received her training in dance from Guru Kundan Lal Gangani. Having mastered the grammar and the complexities of the Jaipur style, with her grace, innovativeness and imagination, she ranks among illustrious and reputed classical dancers of India today.

Equally competent in pure dance (Nrititta) and expression (Abhinaya), Prerna Shrimali has endevoured to expand Kathak's repertoire by choreographing new and highly acclaimed compositions based on poetry. She is a rare Kathak performer who seamlessly infuses lyrics in virtuosity; blends expressiveness with new insights; invent new gestures and intensifies "Abhinaya" with subtle imagination.

Prerna has worked as the Repertory Chief of Kathak Kendra, New Delhi for two years. She was also engaged in researching on 'Kathak and Abstraction' for which she got a Senior Fellowship from Government of India. She is the recipient of the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards in 2009.

Presently she is working at the Kathak Kendra as a Kathak Guru.

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