Kristina Luna
Lithuania
Kristina Luna started her Kathak training under the guidance of Guru Padmashree Shovana Narayan and Guru Teerath Ajmani. She performed at many places in India along with her guru and troupe "Asavari''. In 2005, Kristina started Odissi training with Guru Sharon Lowen and joined Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra under Guru Priyamvada Pattnayak and completed a three-year certificate course.
In 2009, Kristina founded the Natya Devi Dance Theater in Lithuania, which is involved in various Indian arts events, festivals and cross-cultural projects. She conducts workshops and gives Kathak and Odissi recitals on a regular basis. She also organizes Festival of Classical Indian Arts “Sursadhana”. A tireless dancer, she travels and performs, flitting between Europe and India, where connoisseurs and general audiences alike appreciate her art.
Kristina also teaches Hindi Language and Literature, Indian Performative Culture in Vilnius University, Lithuania from 2010 and is enrolled as PhD scholar in Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy from 2016. The subject of her study is Kathak, as modern performative practice. In April, 2018 Kristina became the President of Lithuanian-Indian Forum. In the crossroads of classical Indian art forms and modern sensibility Kristina is constantly searching for new unexplored ways in combining creativity, beauty of the dance vocabulary, virtuosity of movements and delicate sensitivity. Dedicating her life to dance, Kristina believes in universal values of art that can reach every human’s heart.