With a career spanning over half a century, Shama Bhate, 74, has grown old on stage performing Kathak. The veteran dancer took retirement from public stage performances nearly a decade ago but ...

A few minutes into ‘Vasudeva sutam devam,’ the opening sloka of Sri Krishnashtakam, one developed a liking for ‘Krishna - The Liberator’ presented by senior Kathak dancer and teacher Shama Bhate. As ...

Renowned Kathak exponent, guru Shama Bhate, said that Kathak gave her purpose in life while Pune city gave her an identity which helped her in establishing herself. Popularly known as ‘Shama tai’, the ...

THE bass guitar sounded alien to kathak danseuse Shama Bhate. Now, not only has she befriended it, she has gone on to incorporate it, along with the drums, in her latest presentation - Rhythm Collage.

Nad-Roop, a city-based institution founded by noted Kathak exponent Shama Bhate that gave a modern consciousness to the dance form of Kathak, has completed 25 years. To mark this occasion, Nad-Roop is ...

Nagpur: Realizing the fact that in its pure and classical form, it would be difficult to take forward any performing art, Kathak exponent Shama Bhate believes in taking up collaborative projects based ...

It is the desire to experiment with spaces that led renowned Kathak danseuse Shama Bhate to conceptualise her latest passion project, Chaturang ki Chaupal. The show, which will be performed for the ...

Kathak danseuse Shama Bhate has internalised the idea of swarr, the seamless musical note since she was four years old – the happy result of which has been a 35-year-long career in the dance form.

The great war of the Mahabharata has ended and each character is looking back and introspecting, analysing. “Was what I did the reason this destruction happened Could it all have been avoided ” they ...

Mudra is the only thematic dance festival of the NCPA which is presented around International Dance Day every year. Previously, Mudra has been curated on themes like motherhood, colours, bhakti poetry ...

Shivani Karmarkar, a first year Master’s student of Kathak at Lalit Kala Kendra, (centre of performing arts) of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) is getting ready for the next sequence of ...