Founder and Kalaguru at Nupur Global Kathak academy, Jigna Mehta is an accomplished Kathak dancer and teacher with over 30 years of experience. Trained under renowned kathak gurus Pandit Suman Mangeshkar and Narayani Devi, both disciples of Pandit Sunderlal Ganganiji, she provides able and stringent yet thoughtful and considerate mentoring to her students in the same disciplinarian tradition of her guru.

As Jignaji’s tireless quest for perfect dance attains progressive levels, her vision and approach towards kathak keep expanding. Through constant exploration and readings, Jignaji has today formed a firm belief that if kathak is explored innovatively, its functionality can be extended to other dimensions too. One such critical area is holistic wellness which is of paramount importance in today’s fast, stressful, competitive, and grueling lifestyle. The thought was just a notion in Jignaji’s mind initially, which fructified into a plausible concept with her resilient perusal through introspection and reading. Later attempts to put the concept into practice started giving results as her choreographic maneuvers incorporated such processes that stimulated not just the physique but also the cognitive/mental faculties.