A comprehensive Kathak education institute

Tradition meets innovation

ArtLinks is a premier institute for Kathak dance training and education committed to promoting classical indian performance art knowledge systems. Our students are trained in the performance techniques and theory of the classical Indian dance form, Kathak. Batches for students and adults are conducted all year round. All of our students appear for different levels of central certification examinations and get certified. ArtLinks focuses on overall development of a performance artist. ArtLinks specialises in bringing together different art forms including poetry and visual arts to create comprehensive programs that promote special learning opportunities. Join to learn the skill and develop an organic aptitude to art.

Faculty

Priyanka Pandey, Founder Mentor, Educational Artist

Priyanka is an Educational Artist, choreographer and a performer based in Pune, Maharashtra, India, who has been and teaching Kathak dance an Shastra to children and adults for over a decade and has trained some of the best students performers in Pune. She is the certified and licensed teacher and trainer for ‘Praveshika Poorna’ examination.

Her expertise extends to Dance Movement Therapy synthesising holistic approach to movement and well-being. Priyanka is the chief mentor of the sole Pune center of Natwari Nritya Academy for training and examinations.

Continuing studies- Training under Guru-Shishya Prampara as a disciple of Pt. Jaikishan Maharaj ji of Birju Maharaj Parampara Kathak Dance Academy(promotes Guru Shishya parampara tradition)

Certifications

Kathak

  • Teaching license from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya
  • Chief Mentor, Natwari Centre in Pune courses offered by GuruMaa Vibha Dadheech and Guruji Puru Dadheech
  • Trained with Pt. Birju Maharaj Ji and Shrimati Saswati Sen Ji under Guru Shishya parampara tradition (2004-2010)
  • Senior diploma in Dance (5 years course), Sangeet Shyamal Delhi under the guidance of Late Shri Harish Rawat ji ( student of Durga Lal ji), (2002)
  • Visharad from Bhatkhand Sangeet Mahavidyalaya Uttarakhand first division (1996)
  • Scholarship holder, Bhatkhand Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Uttarakhand, (1994-96)
  • First Divison, Tabla Madhayama, Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Pune (2023)

Dance Movement Therapy and movement studies

  • 8. Laban Movement Studies Introductory course from Sancheti Healthcare Academy Pune (2019)
  • 9. Living Dance Living music course from Kinections by Danielle L. Fraenkel (2019)
  • 10. Post Graduation Certificate in Dance Movement Therapy from Sancheti Healthcare Academy (2020)

Language expert and Journalist

  • Worked with German Book Office New Delhi as Project Co-ordinator, specialisation in art and language (2009-2011)
  • Worked in Evalueserve as Language Analyst (2007-2009)
  • 5 semesters of language courses, Goethe Institute (passing year 2006)
  • Diploma in Teaching German as a foreign Language, Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU), first distinction, (2012)
  • M.A. (English), IGNOU in 2012
  • 16- PG Diploma in Television Journalism, YMCA Delhi (2003)

Under her mentorship, Artlinks is the sole certified training and examination center for ‘Nritya Ankur’ accreditation by Natwari Nritya Academy Indore which is the academy of the Janakiprasaad style of Kathak for the Banaras Gharana in India.