TUTOR PROFILE:
MONICA DALIDOWICZ

Monica Dalidowicz has studied kathak since 2001, taking up study under kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das in 2004. She has studied, performed, and taught under the guidance of Pandit Das in both the USA and India, as well as studying in Canada under Das’s disciple, Joanna deSouza.

In 2012, she finished a PhD in anthropology and dance that focused on learning kathak dance and training in the guru-shishya (master-disciple) tradition.

Monica has also studied modern, contemporary dance, and Polish folk dance.

For more on Pandit Chitresh Das and his school of kathak based in the US please visit:
http://www.kathak.org/index.php/pandit-chitresh-das

For some of Monica’s academic writing on kathak please see:
https://mq.academia.edu/MonicaDalidowicz

Qualifications:
• PhD. Anthropology (Macquarie University 2012)
• MA. Anthropology/Dance (University of Regina/York University, Toronto 2006)
• BA. Anthropology. Dance minor. (University of Regina 2003).