Sushmita Banerjee (dancer)

Sushmita Banerjee
Sushmita Banerjee performing with her students
NationalityIndian
Alma materLoreto College in Kolkata.
OccupationKathak exponent

Sushmita Banerjee is a Kathak exponent, choreographer and dance researcher from India.[1] Sushmita has been under the guidance of Pandit Vijay Shankar and Smt. Maya Chatterjee briefly learned from Pandit Birju Maharaj.[2]

She is a graded artiste of Doordarshan and is an empanelled artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Sushmita has revived the Katha Shaili of Kathak under the able guidance of Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj.[2] She was featured in Swarthmore College professor Pallibi Chakrevorty's book, "Bells of Change" for her contribution to Kathak and Indian classical dance.[3]

  1. ^ "Charting the course of a tradition called Kathak". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Kathak show floors airmen". The Hindu. 6 September 2010. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  3. ^ Pallabi, Chakrevorty (2008). Bells of Change - Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-1905422487.

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