Hrishikesh Pawar

Artistic Director to the Centre of Contemporary Dance, Hrishikesh is amongst the important voices in Indian Contemporary dance. He has studied Kathak with Pt. Rohini Bhate and later was a guest student at the prestigious Palucca Hochschule in the Dance Teaching Program in Dresden. He continues his Kathak training under Guru Neelima Adhye.

With numerous feature films and theatre/stage productions as a performer as well as a successful choreographer, his collaborative work was featured at various Art Festivals such as Fringe Festival, Canada, Dokumenta, Kassel, Germany, Kochi Biennale 2018/19.

In the past he has received the prestigious McArthur Fellowship for 2015/16. Apart from various films, stage shows and theater works, he is most rooted in his work with people suffering from Parkinson and other Community Projects which have become a philosophy of his work.