Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Yale University, USA, 2013

Biography

Shefali Jain has been studying Kathak for the past 10 years under Gretchen Hayden and has recently begun training with Pandit Chitresh Das. She has performed throughout the greater Boston and New York City areas, as both a solo performer and a dancer in group ensembles, including performing with the Chitresh Das Dance Company in its Boston production of "Sita Haran". Shefali is also committed to passing the tradition of Kathak down to the next generations, teaching first at Yale University while she was a student there and now at the Chhandika Academy of Creative Arts as a senior instructor and co-director of the Chhandika Youth Ensemble.