Guru Shama Bhate’s work spans over 35 years as a performer, teacher, choreographer, artistic director, and thinker. Her personal idiom, evolved over the years, is an amazing blend of virtuosity (tayyari) and sensitive expressions (abhinaya), revealing the high degree of classicism.
Guru Shama Bhate is the Director of a unique institute – Nadroop – based in Pune. Nadroop has completed its fruitful existence of 32 years and has brought out many out-of-the-box projects for its silver jubilee celebration like,
Taleem
Guru Shama Bhate herself is a principle disciple of Guru Smt. Rohini Bhate, the doyen of Kathak. She was also blessed with special insights from Kathak Samrat Pt. Birju Maharaj and Pt. Mohan Rao Kallianpurkar.. She has created her own idiom of Kathak dance, blending it with special inputs in ‘Taal’ and ‘Laya’, from Pt. Suresh Talwalkar.
It is a pleasure to inform all our listeners about our latest project with Radio City. Sakal Media Group's current project is to support people through this covid crisis with various mental health initiatives. Our latest initiative is series of podcasts, #WeAreInThisTogether to bring forth positive ideas, new habits, tools regarding self-care, healing practices, etc. To add value, fresh perspective, more energy (physically & emotionally) to all the people who need support in this time of crisis.
We are delighted that Pune's renowned doctors, professionals, artists are giving their time to such an important cause, and we are very thankful.
Following is the list of questions that we have asked Guru Shama Bhate, to help, motivate, and inspire us in our daily lives.
Q.1- How are you, Really?
Q.2- How do you keep yourself positive throughout the day? Can you share some of your practices?
Q.3- What have you unlearnt, let go of during this covid crisis?
Q.4- What does self-care look like for you?
Q.5- What is the one good news that you can’t wait to tell us?