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{{short description|Indian classical dancer}}
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| name = Sunayana Hazarilal
| image = A still of Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal who will be presented with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Kathak Dance by the President Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on October 26, 2004.jpg
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| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India
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| occupation = [[Kathak]] dancer
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| website = {{URL | www.natwari.org}}
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<br>''Abhinayan Kala Saraswati''<br>''Maharashtra Gaurav Award''
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'''Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal''' is an Indian classical dancer, known for her expertise in the classical dance form of [[Kathak]] and reportedly the only surviving practitioner of the '''Janakiprasad Gharana''' of [[Kathak]], also known as Banares Gharana.<ref name="Kathak.orgs">{{cite web | url=http://www.kathak.org/site/kathak/section.php?id=9081 | title=Kathak.org | publisher=Kathak.org | date=2014 | access-date=18 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=How Indian classical dancer defied her family to rise to the top |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/2125961/how-indian-classical-dancer-defied-her-family |work=[[South China Morning Post]] |date=29 December 2017 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honored her in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2014 | access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref>

==Biography==
Sunayana Hazarilal, née Sunayana Agarwal, was born in Mumbai to a Railway officer and started learning classical dance from an early age.<ref name="Interview">{{cite web | url=https://www.narthaki.com/info/intervw/intrv137.html | title=Interview | publisher=Narthaki.com | date=13 April 2012 | access-date=18 November 2014}}</ref> Refusing to move out of Mumbai to learn Kathak when her father was transferred elsewhere, she practised under the tutelage of Guru Hazarilal who was a known exponent of the ''Benaras Jankiprasad Gharana''.<ref name="Kathak.orgs" /><ref name="Interview" />

Sunayana is the Director of Natawari Dance Academy<ref name="a">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt_hfB37hIM | title=Performance | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=3 July 2011 | access-date=18 November 2014}}</ref> and heads the Kathak division of the ''Sangeet and Nartan Shiksha Peeth'' of the [[Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]], Mumbai. She is also a visiting faculty at many other institutions.<ref name="Interview" /> She has conducted dance workshops in New York, San Francisco and Raleigh in the USA and has toured many countries such as Italy, Germany and Belgium. She has also been a visiting faculty at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA) in 1990.<ref name="Interview" />

Sunayana Hazarilal has done research on the genealogy of Janakiprasad Gharana and has published many articles on the topic.<ref name="Kathak, Indian Classical Dance Art">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAbMS6ynGJ8C&q=Sunayana+Hazarilal&pg=PA64 | title=Kathak, Indian Classical Dance Art | publisher=Abhinav Publications | author=Sunil Kothari | year=1989 | pages=64 of 234 | isbn=9788170172239}}</ref> A recipient of such awards as the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] (2003),<ref>{{cite news |title=Madhya Pradesh Governor Shri Patel Will Inaugurate the 48th Khajuraho Dance Festival |url=https://www.apnnews.com/madhya-pradesh-governor-shri-patel-will-inaugurate-the-48th-khajuraho-dance-festival/}}</ref> ''Abhinayan Kala Saraswati'' from Bala Subramanya Sabha and the ''Maharashtra Gaurav Award'',<ref name="Kathak.orgs" /> Sunayana was honored by the [[Government of India]] when she was included in the [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honors]] in 2011.<ref name="Padma Shri" />

==See also==
* [[Kathak]]
* [[List of Kathak exponents]]
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.narthaki.com/info/intervw/intrv137.html | title=Interview | publisher=Narthaki.com | date=13 April 2012 | access-date=18 November 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt_hfB37hIM | title=Performance elaborating Prastaar | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=3 July 2011 | access-date=18 November 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a31kMQwe1n4 | title=Performance explaining Abhinaya | publisher=YouTube | work=Video | date=3 July 2011 | access-date=18 November 2014}}
* [https://www.natwari.org/ Official website]

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[[Category:Artists from Mumbai]]
[[Category:Dancers from Maharashtra]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian dancers]]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]]

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