Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kathak Dance

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kathak Dance is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. It is the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists. Some of the Kathak Dancer Awardees are Manjushree Chatterjee, Vijay Shankar, Uma Dogra, Jitendra Maharaj, Shobha Koser and many others.

Year Dancers of Kathak Year Dancers of Kathak
2009 Prerana Shrimali 1987 Uma Sharma
2008 Shashi Sankhla 1984 Durga Lal
2007 Geetanjali Lal 1982 Kartik Ram, Kumudini Lakhia
2006 Munna Shukla 1979 Rohini Bhate
2005 Tirath Ram Azad 1975 Roshan Kumari
2004 Saswati Sen 1974 Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak
2003 Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar 1969 Sitara Devi
2002 Rajendra Gangani 1968 Damayanti Joshi
2000 Shovana Narayan 1964 Birju Maharaj
1998 Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani 1962 Mohan Rao Kallianpurkar
1996 Rani Karnaa 1959 Sunder Prasad
1995 Ramlal Bareth 1957 Baijnath Prasad `Lacchu Maharaj`
1991 Reba Vidyarthi 1955 Shambhu Maharaj


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