March Guest Speaker: Interactive session with Urja Desai Thakore
Fri 12 Mar
|Online Event via Zoom
This month, in celebration of International Womens Day we invite guest speaker Urja Desai Thakore- dance artist, choreographer & artistic director of Pagrav Dance Company to lead an interactive session where she'll be speaking about her work, philosophy, family, and open discussion with a Q & A.
Time & Location
12 Mar 2021, 18:00 – 19:15 GMT
Online Event via Zoom
Guests
About the event
This month, in celebration of International Womens Day we invite guest speaker Urja Desai Thakore to lead an interactive session where she'll be speaking about her work, philosophy, family, and leading an open discussion with a Q & A. Urja is one of the UK's leading kathak dancers and choreographers, whose sensitive, thought- provoking style is highly regarded by traditionalists and modernists alike.
She studied under the guidance of Kumudini Lakhia at Kadamb, Ahmedabad for over 20 years. Urja then received her BA in Kathak from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Maha Vidyalaya. She has also completed an MA in South Asian Dance with Choreography from Roehampton University.
Urja is the Artistic Director of Pagrav Dance Company (PDC), which she established in the UK in 2005. The company promotes kathak, giving the form a modern context and renewed presentation, whilst encouraging new thinking and understanding of the discipline. Most recently, PDC has…
