Aditi Bhagwat (born 18 January 1981) is an internationally renowned

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and

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expert, actress, dance tutor and

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. She travels all around the world participating in stage shows performing solo as well as in collaboration with many other Indian music artists.

Early life and career highlights

Aditi's musical journey began very early in life, highly inspired by her mother, Ragini Bhagwat, a classical singer. Her initial kathak training in the

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style, was under the guidance of

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and Nandita Puri. Her training in "

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(expressions) and Adda - graceful posture for which Aditi is well recognized. She has a master's degree in dance from

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(National School of Dance). While staying within the structure of

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and art, Aditi has vastly experimented and succeed in mixing traditional dance art and music with

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and other kinds of western music. She was involved in the kathak and Electronic music collaboration with the band Kartik and Gotam: Business Class Refugees in France. She was also involved with the Issue Project with

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pianist Rod Williams. She has gracefully blended the stylized gestures of kathak and the sophisticated rhythm of the Tatkaar, Chakkradhars and different Taals with varying time cycles with instruments like the

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, drums, ghumbri,

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and many more. Bhagwat has said that change and experimentation help a person grow as an artist. Her kathak dance style shows a "mastery of the idiom" according to ''

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''. Aditi was awarded the prestigious

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Fellowship under Cultural Exchange Program 'One Beat' in 2012. She has featuring a column in Mi Marathi Live E-paper on various facets of dance. The first of article of the series featured on September 13, 2015, and will continue as a weekly feature.

Filmography

Aditi has appeared in lead role as well as special appearance in a few Indian movies #

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(Hindi Movie, 2007, Special Appearance) # Chalu Navra Bholi Baiko (Marathi Movie, 2008) # Adla Badli (Marathi Movie, 2008) # Manya Sajjana (Marathi Movie, 2008) # Tahan (Marathi Movie, 2008) #

Sumbaran ''Sumbaran'' is a Marathi movie released on 19 November 2009. Produced by Anil Phatdare and directed by Gajendra Ahire. Cast *Makarand Anaspure as Vasant *Jeetendra Joshi as Veeru *Mukta Barve as Kalyani The cast includes Seema Deshmukh, Maka ...

(Marathi Movie, 2009) # Myoho (Hinid Movie, 2012, Special Appearance) #

Shasan ''Shasan'' ( mr, शासन ; ) is a 2016 Marathi-language political drama film directed by Gajendra Ahire and produced by Shekhar Pathak under the banner of Shreya Films. The film stars Makarand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi, Ma ...

(Marathi Movie, 2016) # aarsa (International Short, 2016)

References

External links

* http://www.aditibhagwat.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Bhagwat, Aditi 1981 births Living people Marathi actors Actresses in Marathi cinema Indian television actresses