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{{short description|Indian classical dancer (born 1954)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox dancer
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| name = Vibha Dadheech
| image = Dr._Vibha_Dadheech.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Vibha Dadheech performing ‘Khandita Nayak’ at Jaipur Kathak Kendra, Kathak Mahotsav 2014
| full_name =
| birth_name = Vibha Rani Gupta
| birth_date = 12 March 1954
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| death_date =
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| occupation = Kathak Dancer, Kathak Scholar, Author, Educationist
| years_active = since 1963
| current_group =
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| dances = [[Kathak]]
| website =
}}

'''Vibha Dadheech''' (born 12 March 1954) is an Indian classical dancer in the [[Kathak]] dance form. She began learning Kathak from Raigarh Court dancer Pt. Firtu Maharaj, and later in Guru Shishya Parampara from Pt. [[Shambhu Maharaj]] as a ganda bandh shagird, living and learning at her guru’s home.<ref name=DB>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/indore/news/life-time-achievement-award-for-artist-dr-vishwa-dadhich-030205-3492335.html|title=कलाकार डॉ. विभा दाधीच को लाइफ टाइम अचीवमेंट अवॉर्ड|date=24 December 2018|website=Dainik Bhaskar}}</ref> She is also the senior-most disciple and wife of [[Puru Dadheech]]. Together they founded the Natavari Kathak Nritya Academy, Indore.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/celebrating-a-guru-1502782187.html|title=Celebrating a Guru|website=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|date=26 July 2019}}</ref> Currently, Vibha Dadheech is serving as Professor Emeritus at world’s first dedicated Kathak Research centre at the [[Sri Sri University]], The Sri Sri Centre for Advanced Research in [[Kathak]]. <ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/kathak-dancer-padmashree-dr-puru-dadhich-5699953/|title= गुरु ने कहा था, कथक के शास्त्र की खोज करो, उसी में जुटा हुआ हूं : डॉ. दाधीच | Kathak Dancer Padmashree Dr. Puru Dadhich|date= 28 January 2020}}</ref>

Vibha graduated in 1988 with a doctorate PhD in Kathak from [[Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya]] Khairagarh. Her topic for research was Dance Hand Gestures - Bharatiya Nritya ki Varnamala: Hast Mudrayen. Which include more than 1100 hand gestures with their definitions from approximately 23 shastra granthas. The research is also a published book by the same title.<ref name="Sangeet Galaxy">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sangeetgalaxy.co.in/detail.php?unid=17|title=Sangeet Galaxy|website=www.sangeetgalaxy.co.in|access-date=3 March 2020|archive-date=13 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113195845/http://www.sangeetgalaxy.co.in/detail.php?unid=17|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Dadheech has been felicitated with India’s highest award to a performing artist, the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] and Madhya Pradesh's highest Civilian Award The Shikhar Samman.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/shikhar-samman-for-swayam-prakash-rahat-indori-lata-munshi-24-others/articleshow/72116760.cms|title=Shikhar Samman for Swayam Prakash, Rahat Indori, Lata Munshi & 24 others|date=19 November 2019|newspaper=The Times of India|accessdate=29 May 2020}}</ref>

She was awarded the Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India in Kathak for the year 2011–12.<ref name=Min>{{cite web| url=http://www.indiaculture.nic.in/sites/default/files/Schemes/fellowship%202011-12.pdf | title=List of Selected Candidates for the Award of Junior and Senior Fellowships for 2011-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423124859/http://www.indiaculture.nic.in/sites/default/files/Schemes/fellowship%202011-12.pdf | archive-date=2015-04-23}}</ref>

She is an author and published her research book Bharatiya Nritya ki Varnamala: Hast Mudrayen (ABC of Indian Dance Gestures) in Hindi language. Hardcover - 2003 {{ISBN|978-8190105712}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Buy BHARTIYA NRITYA KI VARNMAALA HAST MUDRAYEN (The ABC of Indian Dance Hand Gestures) in Hindi Book Online at Low Prices in India | BHARTIYA NRITYA KI VARNMAALA HAST MUDRAYEN (The ABC of Indian Dance Hand Gestures) in Hindi Reviews & Ratings - Amazon.in|id={{ASIN|819010571X|country=in}}}}</ref> Her book has also been prescribed as reference book for the Bachelor level of Dance syllabus at Devi Ahilya University, Indore.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.dauniv.ac.in/public/frontassets/syllabus/UGPGAnnualSyllabus/DanceBhratnatayam.pdf | language=hi | title=Dance Bhratnatayam}}</ref>

Vibha has received the Life-time Achievement Award 2015 at the 25th Gopi Krishna Mahotsav, Mumbai for serving Kathak for over 50 years.<ref name=DB/> She collaborated with 40 other artists to create Kala Arpan that was launched by Sri Ravi Shankar.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-20|title='Kala Arpan' an offering by 40 maestros of Indian classical art at launch of WFAC|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/kala-arpan-an-offering-by-40-maestros-of-indian-classical-art-at-launch-of-wfac/story-xivmJ3tMz2KmXe6itdVIuO.html|access-date=2021-09-29|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref>

==Family==

Vibha was born to noted Gandhian freedom fighter Shri Bhramarji Gupta and Purna Gupta at [[Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh|Bilaspur]] (then [[Madhya Pradesh]]). She is the youngest of four siblings and is married to the Kathak dancer and educationist [[Puru Dadheech]]. She has two sons and a daughter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=गुरु ने कहा था, कथक के शास्त्र की खोज करो, उसी में जुटा हुआ हूं : डॉ. दाधीच |date=28 January 2020 |url=https://www.patrika.com/indore-news/kathak-dancer-padmashree-dr-puru-dadhich-5699953/ |language=hi}}</ref>

==Education==
* Doctorate in Kathak 1988 from [[Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya]] Khairagarh <ref name="Sangeet Galaxy"/>
* Kathak under Guru Shishya Parampara from Pt. Firtu Maharaj and Pt. [[Shambhu Maharaj]]

==Awards==

* [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] Akademi Puraskar for 2021 (SNA)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/public/uploads/annoucement/1669376114_Akademi%20Main%20Awards%20for%20the%20year%202019,%202020%20&%202021.pdf | title=Announcement of Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) | access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref>
* Shikhar Samman 2018 - Madhya Pradesh's highest civilian award (for excellence in Kathak dance)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.classicalclaps.com/shikhar-samman-to-classical-dancers-shuchitra-harmalkar-vibha-dadheech-and-lata-munshi/|title=Shikhar Samman to Classical Dancers Shuchitra Harmalkar, Vibha Dadheech and Lata Munshi|date=22 November 2019}}</ref>
* Senior Fellowship 2011 by Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India<ref name=Min/>
* Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 for serving Kathak for over 50 years, at 25th Gopi Krishna Mahotsav<ref name=DB/>

==Books==

* BHARTIYA NRITYA KI VARNMAALA HAST MUDRAYEN (The ABC of Indian Dance Hand Gestures) {{ISBN|978-8190105712}}
* NRITYA NIBANDH, Bindu Prakashan 2009 {{ISBN|81-901057-6-0}}
* GAT NIKAS - KATHAK NRITYA KA APARIHARYA ANG, Bindu Prakashan. Researched under Senior Fellowship by [[Ministry of Culture (India)]], 2019.

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[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]

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