Akriti Jain is a renowned Kathak Dancer from Bhopal. Trained in Raigarh and Lucknow Gharana style. She has been trained under great Gurus. She dedicated her life completely to kathak. She did her master’s in Kathak from Banaras Hindu University Varanasi.
In 2014 she participated in her college event competition where she performed kathak and broke all the records and took 100 spins (chakkars). Everyone was shocked, and she got the award for the same.
In 2017 she got the opportunity to learn under the guidance of Padma Shri Pt. Birju Maharaj Ji.
She represented her College in Youth festival solo classical dance competitions in 2013 and 2014 and won awards in the same.
She has performed at various mega festivals like Golcunda Festival Hyderabad, Sthapana Divas Raigarh, Orchha Mahotsava, and many more in Bhopal, Lucknow, Orissa, Delhi etc.
In 2020 one of her dance videos got viral and was shared by Mr. Tarek Fatah, Saregama and The Better India Page. A few days back Saregama and SANJAY LEELA BHANSALI’s PRODUCTION page shared her dance video based on Gangubai Kathiawadi’s song ‘JAB SAIYAAN’ on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
She loves experimenting kathak and try to create magic with difficult footwork techniques and different styles of chakkar. Maintaining the purity of this traditional art form. She is famous for her unique creativity.
She says
Kathak is a completely different world that has its own structure, its own beauty, its own language.
It takes years and years to learn such a complex dance form. I’m grateful to my Dadaji and my mother because of them I’m exploring this beautiful world.
I get to live in a different era when I’m practising, I get to feel the emotions and the kind of love which used to be there earlier.
I feel very lucky that I am here, exploring this art form which is very pure and beautiful.
When I’m on stage I don’t see the audience, I don’t care about the appreciation, my ears hear the beautiful beats and lehra and I just get so indulged into it that I start playing with the music and during the bhava paksh I just enjoy portraying the feelings of this character. It is a completely different feeling which cannot be expressed in words.
She is taking online as well as offline classes.
You can follow her on Instagram (username- kathakriti)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathakriti/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Kathakakriti/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8akA-lIOmF8HwFUqBp9wA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akriti.kathakdancer
