Uma Sharma

Smt. Uma Sharma is most known for reviving the old classical dance form of Natwari Nritya. From the age of 14,  Uma Sharma was invited every year by Pandit Nehru to perform at his irthday parties.  She was also shown, at Rashtrapati Bhavan to Royal visitors like Queen Elizabeth, the Shah & Shah, Bano of Iran, etc. She was a standby role in a dance drama ‘Shakuntala’ year after year during Dussehera.  In her 20’s the singing, acting chrysalis emerged in to its full glory as India’s ace Kathak Dancer Uma Sharma. Uma's forte is translating poets Kalidas, Vidyapati,  Ghallib,  Tagore, lqbal,  Faiz, Bachan in to dance. Her involvement is too deep to leave either time or space for anything else in her heart.

She also runs the Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan, founded by her father in 1946 in New Delhi.

Uma Sharma won scholarship from the Bharatiya Kala Kendra which freed her from the obligations of earning her livelihood from the stage.  Perhaps Ms Sharma's most rewarding moment in this form of innovation was in the Shiraz Arts festival in Iran in 1969. Uma Sharma has performed to include Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Allama Iqbal, Makhdoom Mohiuddin . Ms Sharma innovation is a never ending process, today her students in her academy are also taught this alongside traditional Kathak and the Raas Style.

Uma Sharma was invited by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Val Morin Canada for performance in Canada and New York. She also conducted Master classes in Kathak with vocal maestro Shri Imran Khan (Tan Samrat), son of late Ustad Nasser Ahmed Khan.