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About the Team

About the Team The Delhi based dancing duo, have been trained in Jaipur style of Kathak under the guidance of renowned Guru Sh. Rajindra Gangani at Kathak Kendra, a National Institute of Dance located in new Delhi. They have been touring in and outside the country with one goal i.e. to tell the tale of Indian history, myths & to explore the very rich cultural heritage of India by showcasing new, innovative and creative choreographic compositions of the dynamic art form. Dance in India’s cultural heritage is known to be closely linked & neatly knitted with oneness.

Their long stay at Guangzhou grand world Scenic Park in China for almost nine months to interact with public of china by miraculous performances, creating choreographic expositions on Chinese children, conducting workshops are yet a thrilling experience of their life.

Their performance at the '7th International Cultural Festival' held in Ueno city (Mie Prefecture, Japan) has once again benchmarked their caliber as a duet. They were also invited to participate in the festival 'Journees Des 5 Continents' organized by Center de Loisirs et Culture de Martigny, Switzerland.

Their performance at the 'Breminale Festival' (Breman, Germany), can well be cited as an impeccably gripping one as they were invited to perform for three consecutive years. The appericiation given by Italian audience of Porto Antico (Genova) in the 'Festival Musicale Del Mediterraneo' which runs by European Forum of Worldwide Music Festival; was an exciting experience of their life.

Their remarkable performance on the opening ceremony of Festival of India in Guyana was an attempt to integrate different percussion instruments, like Taasha, Daph and African drum called Jimbae with kathak dance was very well appreciated by President of Guyana and other dignitaries.

They teamed up with Bharatnatyam dancers for their fusion shows but retained the strict vocabulary of Kathak. Their experiments with disparate cultures amazed the public of Germany, Italy, Austria & Switzerland with the dazzling fusion of Spanish Flamenco & their Kathak.

They moved to their new abode i.e Canada in 2006 as cultural educators and founder teachers of Voice of Vedas Sangeet academy in Richmond Hill. Since then, they have showed their unparalleled creativity in numerous programs all over Canada such as Canada Day concert (Varley Art gallery), Windfall ecology festival (Fairy lake park), East york day festival, Kathak Mahosav Canada ( Fairview Library Theatre) , Creation India music festival (Vaughan City play house Theatre), Raagmala classical concert series (University of Calgary & Toronto).

They also got an opportunity to perform at Parliament Hill, Ottawa to an audience that included Prime Minister Mr Stephen Harper.

The smashing success of Dance Drama Shakuntala in 2008 involving a huge cast of 45 artists has carved a niche for them as a choreographer, composer and producer in the cultural arena of Canada.

Recently they traveled with their new production Vividh kala (a variety cultural show) to Sansketchewan at Regina performing arts centre and Sanskatoon collegiate theatre to mark the south Asian heritage month 2009. Presently, they are the artistic directors of panwar music & Dance.

Vaishali's Bio

Hailing from a family where my upbringing were shaped through an atmosphere of freedom where choice and opportunity was given to explore my hidden potential in all possible fields, the credit goes to my parents, who saw my deep inclination towards dance and decided to convert my interest into a skill by enrolling me into a prestigious Dance school.

Like many others, I started Dance as a means of recreation along with my academic stride for qualification in the streams of Science, Mathematics and management courses. Later I realized that whatever I studied had a direct affinity with my dance.

For me Dance became a divine science of creativity with immense research, which involved the exploration of endless possibilities.

It can also be considered as Management involving systematic arrangement of musical ensemble and administering our own bodily movement.

I can link Dance more closely to Mathematics since it unfolds into the generation of permutations and combinations by its precise footwork patterns and involves the setting up equations in three dimensional space with movements, thus, creating infinite geometrical figures.

All I can say is that whenever I dance, stage becomes the whole world to me and I belong to the world.

The most interesting feature of Vaishali’s life is dancing to the poetry of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for which Hemant made the music who incidentally is a vocalist too. This ballet 'Aao Phir Se Diya Jalaye' was an experiment to ignite the dormant Human sensibilities transcending one's mind on to a different plane arousing a feeling of consciousness of belonging to a country as great as India. Forging new directions has led them to London based Director Elizabeth Dobson’s film 'The Making of Mahatma' which is about Gandhi’s personal life, with their dance section Radha-Krishna curling up at significant intervals. Apart from this, they explored the hidden potential of physically challenged 'Children of the lesser God' by giving them free training at Academy of Fine Arts & Literature, Delhi. Their Symphony of Power & Grace has earned not only the applause but also the title 'Singar Mani' from Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai.

Apart from this, Vaishali, a Doordarshan approved artist and empanelled artist of I.C.C.R is widely traveled to Japan, Seychelles, Singapore, Jordan, Oman, Kenya & Thailand for her performance. She was also honored by the prestigious scholarship from Human Resource & Development ministry, Nrityangana Sri award, Savitri Kala Sangam Award & President award.

Hemant's Bio

Hemant Panwar "I was born in a family of farmers in a small village of Rajasthan in India. Since my early childhood, my tender mind sensed an agitation, an excitement and a craving for something unknown, whenever I heard a rhythm, a tune or any melody. At the age of 14, I left my home for Delhi in the quest of my existence, my dreams with nothing in my pocket and without telling anyone.

For the support bestowed upon me by my guru Sh Rajinder Gangani during that period of struggle and hardship, I will be indebted to him forever who was the first one to observe my unexplored energy and my thirst to learn and hence, taught me in such a way that I could aspire to fulfill my lifelong endeavor.

Though I am a professional dancer when I sing, I feel that music is the air in which I am breathing and whenever I dance, I know my movements are articulating some voice in space. I always hear melody, a rhythm, a song of the body in the sound of my intricate spontaneous footwork patterns. For me, dancing is like giving a visible form to the song of the soul."

Hemant is recipient of fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource & Development for research project and is among the reference panel of teachers of I.C.C.R. He has mesmerized the audience of Holland Sweden, Denmark, France, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion Islands, Croatia, Japan, Kenya & Gulf countries.

He has given music to telefilm 'Allah Tero Naam', Theatre Plays & Documentaries and has also accompanied eminent dancers for vocal support he has been interviewed on various channels of India & abroad. He also taught in Gandharva Mahavidyalaya & in the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature.

More recently, through his many years of hard work and dexterity, I.C.C.R gave him the privilege of diplomatic status & sent him to Indian cultural center , Georgetown (Guyana) as a teacher of dance and an ambassador to highlight India’s rich cultural dance heritage to the locals.