
Hrishikesh Pawar
Kathak / Contemporary dancer / choreographer
Artistic Director to the Centre of Contemporary Dance 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.