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Smt. Rani Karnaa 

Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee, Smt. Rani Karnaa was born in Hydrabad Sind now in Pakistan and nurtured under the great gurus Nrityacharya Narayan Prasad, pandit Sunder Prasad and Birju Maharaj. Rani Karnaa is one of our foremost exponent of kathak .She is known to have enriched and integrated the great traditons of Jaipur and Lucknow Gharana with  an unusual sense of aesthetic adventure. Her creative repertoire finds expression in integrated compositions of Sahitya ,Sangeet and Nritya drawn from different cultural and literary treasures -such as Parvarti pujan, Shiva Vandana, Chatushpadi  Chakradharan , Kajari and many more. Her works on aesthetic of kathak with professor S K Saxena of Delhi University is now well recognized.
Widely traveled in India and abroad she divides her time performing and teaching.