Megha Jagawat is an emerging Kathak dancer in India. One of the most brilliant young Kathak dancers, her performances have always enthralled the audiences. Over the years she has polished her art by strenuous training and riyaz and has won appreciation from the audience all over the world.

Early Life of Megha Jagawat
It was at the tender age of 4 that she began dancing under the guidance of her mother. Being a graduate in commerce, she did her post graduation in ancient history and then mass communication and journalism.

She began her formal training in Kathak from the year 1998, under the guru shishya parampara. Along her academic education, she pursued the Masters degree in Kathak from Bhatkhande University, Lucknow in the year 2005-06, under the guidance of her guru Pandit Girdhari Maharaj, the great maestro of Kathak dance who belongs to the Jaipur gharana. Megha Jagawat got married in the family of her guru and hence got the chance to polish her skills further. She worked on the delicacies of abhinaya along with her husband Kamal Kant, a renowned dancer in France and Europe.

Being an acknowledged dancer, Megha Jagawat is also a well known compere for Rajasthan Doordarshan, and All India Radio. She has been appearing as an anchor and presenter for many private channels of Rajasthan and also international channels giving wider coverage in South-East Asian countries.

She is also working as an official compere for almost all the major classical dance and music festivals organised by Rajasthan Tourism, and also all other major festivals. Naming a few would be International Pushkar fair, international elephant festival, Kumbhalgarh classical dance festival, Nagaur festival, Desert Festival and so on.

Being a real artist, she has showed her potentials in many telefilms, at national and international level and won accolades everywhere.

Megha Jagawat is now running a project "Triwat Voyage" along with her husband Kamal Kant to bring couple of students every year in their gurukul, Shri Laxmi Narayan Nrityashram and train them in music (both vocal and instrumental) and dance.

Recognitions for Megha Jagawat

Graded Artist of Doordarsan Kendra Jaipur, Rajasthan

Scholarship holder by Ministry Of Tourism and Culture Department of India for Kathak dance

Has been awarded best dancer of the school for consecutively 8 years.

Hasbeen awarded Best dancer of the Maharani`s College Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Maya Israni`s Gold Medal Award for best artist (dance, drama, music) in Maharani`s College Jaipur.

Awarded "Best In Cultural Activities" by Kanodia College in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Performances of Megha Jagawat

Year	Subject
2001	worked in “French Opera Theatre” (Paris, Strasbourg, Molouse) for 2 months as a classical dancer.
2002	Performance of Moomal at the birth anniversary of H.H. Bhawani Singh Ji, Jaipur.Participating and assisting in choreographing the dance dramas of indo German society of Rajasthan University consecutively for 6 years.
2005	Performed dance drama “Jalsaghar” Revisiting the nautch and mujra of courtly India, under the guidance of Rajeev Sethi and Pandit Girdhari Maharaj.
2005	Performed in Pratibha Utsav organised by Uttar Madhya Kshetra Sanskritik Kendra, Allahabad.
2006	Performed for Optic 2000 in Palace de Congress Versai, France.
2006	Jour de Fete 2006 in Paris France;
2006	Sfinks, World Music Festival, Belgium
2007	Classical performance (solo and duet) in Les Oriental Festival, St. Florent.
2007	Cultural tour to Austria, Croatia, Slovenia for folk and classical dance presentations.
2008	Solo presentation of Kathak in the prestigious Mussee Guimet, Paris, France.
2008	Lecture, demonstration and workshop in Les Oriental Festival, St. Florent, France.
2008	Performance in centre mandala Toulouse, France.
2008	Given performance in international Romanian festival, Luxembourg.
2008	Kathak presentation in Maison de l’inde, Paris
2009	Worked with Rajeev Sethi and historian Naveena Jafa for dance drama “agra Bazar Revisited” presented for an American delegation.
2009	Classical Dance Festival of Rennes, France
2009	Jour de fete, Paris presented the north Indian classical dance style in Bollywood.
2009	Assisted Pandit Girdhari Maharaj for his Kathak workshop at ARTA, Paris, France.