Mahua Shankar performed at The Aryan School, Shigally Hills International Academy and ONGC Academy on Friday as a part of the circuit organised by SPIC MACAY.
She started her performance with an invocation to the gods. She did the main piece with 21 rounds and also presented a tarana in Jhatpaal. Mahua Shankar and her assistant Shikha concluded the programme with a jugalbandi.
Mahua Shankar is accompanied by Zakir Hussain Warsi on tabla, Shuheb Hassan on vocal and harmonium and Shikha Sharma on padhant.
Mahua Shankar is a practitioner of the lucknow Gharana of Kathak and has been a soloist for SPIC MACAY for the past eight years. She was awarded with the ‘Shringar Mani’ 2007 from Sur Shringar Samsad.
Mahua has had the distinction of performing in Rashtrapati Bhavan, before the then President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.
She has performed in major festivals in India and different parts of the world often accompanying Birju Maharaj, her Guru. This May, she performed in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan with the legend. She has held major concerts and performances as a soloist in countries like Guyana, USA, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago and South America.
Mahua will be performing at The Cambrian Hall School and The Unison World School on 20 September.