About


The Australian Kathak Company connects the global Kathak community, celebrating & advancing excellence and leadership in the form through its platforms.

The Australian Kathak Company is a Melbourne-based platform dedicated to engaging global and local audiences with Kathak in a more considered and nuanced way.

Kathak carries centuries of embodied knowledge — in movement, pedagogy, lineage, and cultural memory. While performance remains at the heart of the form, much of its richness extends beyond the stage. This knowledge is often dispersed, undocumented, and inaccessible to broader audiences. The Australian Kathak Company brings it into dialogue with the present — engaging with Kathak's legacy while remaining attentive to its contemporary practice and ongoing evolution.

Through original commissioning, editorial content, and considered cultural dialogue, the platform creates new ways of seeing and experiencing the form. It connects the global Kathak community — from India to London, New York, and beyond — while sharing this richness with audiences in Australia and around the world.

The Australian Kathak Company invites both new and existing audiences to engage with one of the world's great classical art forms: not as a relic, but as a living, evolving practice with enduring relevance and extraordinary depth.