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Shashi Sankhla

Kathak dancer

Shashi Sankhla
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Shashi Sankhla ji Performing
Shashi Sankhla ji Performing
Shashi Sankhla kathak dancer
Shashi Sankhla kathak dancer
Shashi Sankhla Kathak Guru Jaipur Gharana
Shashi Sankhla Kathak Guru Jaipur Gharana
   Career
She started her career as a teacher at the age of 19, at the Rashtriya Kala Mandal in Jodhpur and then at Jaipur Kathak Kendra as Kathak Nritya Guru in 1978 and served that institution for 28 years and retired as Principal in 2006. Currently she is imparting kathak training at Geetanjali Music Society, Jaipur.She has groomed many Shishyas including her own daughters who have turned out to be performing artists and teachers and are currently working at various organisations all over the globe. Some of her experimental productions conclude pure classical Gayaki like Dhrupad , Khayal , Tarana , Ashtapadis whereas others conclude folk lore and Ballets like Panihari, Kesariya Balam , Chaucer , Rajputani , Gangaur , Ghoomar , RadheyRani , Dashavtaar etc to name a few. 
   Awards & Achievements
Shashi Sankhla has won many accolades, including Sangeet Natak Academy Rajasthan (2001) by then Chief Minister of Rajasthan Shri. Ashok Gehlot and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award , New Delhi in 2008 by then President Of India Smt Pratibha Patil. [2] .In addition to this she was conferred the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy by Inter Cultural Open University, Netherlands (2003). She was also awarded Fellowship by HRD Ministry of Art and Culture on the topic "MAAND" (a semiclassical style of singing of Rajasthan)-"Kathak Nritya Mein Abhinaya Ka Ek Sashakt Madhyam " that fulfills the much needed requirement of "Thumri" of Jaipur Gharana .(2001-2003).
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