{{Short description|Indian choreographer}} {{For|the social activist|Mohua Mukherjee}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox dancer | name = Mahua Mukherjee | image = File:GuruMahua.jpg | alt = | caption = | full_name = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|yyyy|mm|dd}} or {{birth date|yyyy|mm|dd}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|deathyear|mm|dd|birthyear|mm|dd}} --> | death_place = | height = | occupation = Dancer, researcher | years_active = | current_group = | former_groups = | dances = Gaudiya Nritya | website = <!-- {{URL|website}} --> }} '''Mahua Mukherjee'''{{ref|1|[Note]}} is an exponent of the Indian classical dance form Gaudiya Nritya.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=re3MCwAAQBAJ&q=gaudiya+dance&pg=PA142|title=Worlding Dance|last=Foster|first=S.|date=2009-06-10|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230236844|language=en}}</ref> She is a researcher and teacher at Rabindra Bharati University and Dean of the faculty of fine arts {{As of|2014|1|lc=y}}.<ref name=Interview>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/dance/dance-of-the-ancients/article1608014.ece | title=Dance of the ancients | newspaper=The Hindu | date=9 April 2011 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Bharatram, Kumudha}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/faculty.php | title=Members of The Faculties | publisher=Rabindra Bharati University | accessdate=14 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212203809/http://www.rbu.ac.in/faculty.php | archive-date=12 December 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Along with her husband Amitava Mukherjee, she has been reviving the dance style through her career from 1980s.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/of-euphoria-and-grace-in-dancing-devotion/ | title=Of euphoria and grace in dancing devotion | newspaper=The Daily Star (Bangladesh) | date=11 November 2013 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Alom, Zahangir | archive-date=7 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107192137/http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/of-euphoria-and-grace-in-dancing-devotion/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> She has also given performances and lectures as visiting professor like at the University of Oklahoma, USA.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/summer-players/ | title=Summer players | newspaper=Indian Express | date=7 June 2013 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Parul}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=227573 | title=Presentation of Navarasa through dance | date=25 March 2012 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | newspaper=The Daily Star (Bangladesh) | author=Alom, Zahangir | archive-date=7 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107191915/http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=227573 | url-status=dead }}</ref> She has learned the dance from Bratindranath, Sashi Mahato, Narottam Sanyal, Gambhir Singh Mudha, Mukund Das Bhattacharya and other practitioners of the Chhau, Nachni, Kushan and Kirtaniya traditions.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hindu.com/ms/2006/12/26/stories/2006122600040100.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108051652/http://www.hindu.com/ms/2006/12/26/stories/2006122600040100.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 November 2012 | title=The wheel has come full circle | newspaper=The Hindu | date=26 December 2006 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Rajan, Anjana}}</ref>
Mukherjee is also the director of institutes Gaudiya Nritya Bharati and Mitrayan. She is M.Sc., Ph.D. in Botany. She had initially also taken training in Bharata Natyam. She is considered as the "fountainhead" of the dance.<ref name=Interview/> She has also been subject of a poem written by Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide published in her collection "The Beauty I Have Seen: A Trilogy".<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbPWUNyy4FQC&q=mahua+mukherje&pg=PA88 | title=The Beauty I Have Seen: A Trilogy | publisher=African Books Collective | author=Tanure Ojaide | author-link=Tanure Ojaide | year=2010 | pages=88 | isbn=978-9788422297}}</ref> She also features in the documentary film ''Geetmay Tanmay - Trance in Motion'' made by the Films Division of India.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry7y9Xnp_E |title=Trance in Motion : Short film by Films Division |publisher=Gadurr Media, YouTube |accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref>
==Books== She wrote a book on Bengal Classical Dance, Gaudiya Nritya. It was published from The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.<ref>{{Cite book |url= |title=Gaudiya Nritya |last=Mukherjee |first=Mahua |publisher=The Asiatic Society |year=2000 |isbn= |location=Kolkata |pages= |language=bn }}</ref>
==Notes== <sup>{{note|1|[Note]}}</sup>Mukherjee is also credited as Mukhopadhyay. For further reading refer etymology of the surname.
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