Nighat Chaodhry
| Nighat Chaodhry | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born | February 24th Lahore, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Years active | 1985-Present |
| Website | www |
| Dances | Kathak Classical |
Nighat Chaodhry (Urdu: نگہت چوہدری) was born on February 24, in Lahore Pakistan and moved to London when she was one year old. She is a trained Kathak Classical dancer. She started her journey from London and has been active as a professional Kathak dancer for over 3 decades.She studied Ballet and Contemporary dance. She met Nahid Siddiqui at age of fourteen, regarded as one of the greatest Kathak dancers and trained under her guidance. Inspired to learn the Classical forms of her own culture, she abandoned ballet and join to understand and absorb the nuances of the style. This required her to be closer to its origins and she moved back to Pakistan.
She completed her formal education from London in O and A levels and is certified in a Dance Foundation Course from the Laban Center for Movement and Dance, Goldsmith’s College, London. Presently, she is doing her Master’s in Dance Pedagogy at Middlesex University London.
Lahore.1983-87
She belongs to a literary family from her father’s side and the business world from her mother’s side. Her grand-father from her maternal side had a renowned business by the name of Chaudhry hosiery mills before partition in Dacca, Ludhiana, Lahore and Faisalabad, while her father Abdur-rehman chaudhry was a professor who taught mathematics as his subject in Faisalabad at the Agricultural University eventually moving on to becoming a professor at Government College in Lahore. Farooq Chaudhry is her brother, who graduated with a bachelor's in Dance Performance from The Place (Sadler's Wells Theatre) in London and performed as a international professional dancer in the eighties and nineties. He received an Asian Achievement Award for his work as a performer in 1988. In 1999, he retired from dancing and completed an MA in Arts Management from City, University of London. In 2000 Farooq chaudhry co-founded the Akram kham company with Akram Khan (dancer) and became the company producer. He has had leadership roles as a producer for the English National Ballet in october 2013 and an international executive director for China's National Dance icon Yang Liping since 2016.
...
Wikipedia