Pratap Pawar is an exponent of the Indian dance form Kathak in which he was trained by the renowned Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj. Having received extensive training in his early years in India, dance took him to spend long years in Guyana and Trinidad before settling in the United Kingdom. He was the first full-time Kathak teacher in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and founded the Triveni Dance Company which has toured nationally and internationally. One of his more experimental works on Kathak - Dream of Mughal Prince - was a collaboration with Flamenco had won critical acclaim worldwide. He is an inspiration and mentor to hundreds of students learning Kathak in the UK. His distinguished career of six decades and four continents has been penned in his autobiography My Journey in Dance.
