Sharmila Banerjee
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Sharmila Banerjee is a classical, folk and creative dancer, and choreographer from Bangladesh. .
Banerjee is a graduate from the University of Dhaka in Management Studies. She graduated from the Visva-Bharati University at Shantiniketan with a Bachelor of Music degree in Dance under ICCR Scholarship. In Shantiniketan, she received training in the Kathakali and Manipuri dance styles.
Career
Banerji teaches as the head of the dance department at Chhayanaut, and runs her own private institution of dance named Nritya Nandan.
She has performed and choreographed in Bangladesh Television Dance Programs. She composed and directed Tagore's dance drama “Chitrangada”, “Chandalika”, “Shyama”, “Mayar Khela” “Kalmrigaya”, and other productions based on various Bengali literature of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. She has also worked as a choreographer at Theatre Performances.
