Praveen Kumar (dancer)

Kumar holds a Bachelor of Commerce and was awarded a state government scholarship to pursue dance.^[1] He learned Bharatanatyam under the dancers S. Narmada and C. V. Chandrasekhar.^[2]

Kumar has been an 'A' graded artist on Doordarshan since 2002 and was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2010.^[3][4] He serves on the panel of classical performing artists for cultural missions and festivals abroad for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.^[1]

Kumar had been named the best dancer of the 2019 dance festival by the Madras Music Academy.^[5]

He teaches at the Chithkala School of Dance in Bengaluru.^[1]

• Chithkala School of Dance