A senior dancer of Jaipur Gharana of Kathak Prerana Shrimali, received her training in dance from Guru Shri Kundanlal Gangani. Having mastered the grammar and the complexities of the Jaipur style, with her grace, innovativeness and imagination, she ranks among the most illustrious and reputed classical dancers of India today.


Equally competent in pure dance [Nritta] and "Abhinaya" (Expression), Prerana shrimali has endeavored to expend the Kathak repertoire by choreographing new and highly acclaimed compositions based on poetry, ancient, medieval, and modern. Exploring verses of Kalidas, Amaru, Meera, Kabeer, Padmakar, and Ghalib, French poet Yves Bonnefoy etc. Prerana is a rare Kathak performer who fuses lyricism in virtuosity; blends expressiveness with new insights invents new gestures and intensify "abhinaya" with subtle imagination.