Awards & Honors
Padma Shri Award from then Honourable President of India
honoured in 1993 from then President of India Dr Shankar Dayal Saxena at the Rashtrapati Bhawan
Receiving Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for year 1984
Receiving Madhya Pradesh's Shikhar Samman for year 2007
Dr. Puru Dadheech has received many prestigious awards for his outstanding
contribution in the field of Kathak Dance. A few of these are
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Honored by then president Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma at President house in May
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Academy Award and Copper plate by Sangeet Natak Academy, UP in 1984;
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Shikhar Samman by MP Govt in 2007;
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Senior Fellowship by Ministry of culture, Government of India.
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He has been awarded title of “Maha Mahopadhyaya”(Hon.D.Lit) by A.B. Gandharva Maha Vidyalaya Mandal,Mumbai.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for overall contribution in music in 2018.
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4th highest civilian award The Padma Shri in 2020;
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MP Government's highest National Award The Kalidas Samman for year 2021-22;
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Ministry of Culture's highest 'Tagore National Fellowship'
SNA 2023 award from then President of India
Dr Vibha Dadheech has been felicitated with ‘Singar Mani’ by Sur Singar sansad, Mumbai where she was specially commended by Kathak Queen Sitara devi ji and ‘Nritya Shringar’ by Prachin Kala Kendra, Chandigarh. Noticing her talent as ‘Yuva kalakar’, in the year 1971, Madhya Prashad Kala Parishad awarded her and organized her special dance performance at Bhopal, M.P. In the same year she was awarded with first prize in the Inter-university Youth festival organized by Vikram University, Ujjain. She has been awarded the crowning jewel of cultural recognition, Madhya Pradesh Shikhar Sanman in 2016 for her lifetime work in enriching the classical performing arts in MP and National Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her overall contributions to the field of dance for the year 2021.
Dr Vibha Dadheech has gathered a lot appreciation for her dance performances in almost all the dance festivals and independent performances across the nation. Few noted ones are : Haridas Sangeet Sammelan, Mumbai, Bhaskar Rao Sangeet Sammelan, Chandigarh, Jaidev Sangeet Sammelan, Silchar, Kathak Prasang, Bhopal, Aamir Khan Sangeet Sammelan, Indore, Lucknow Mohotsav, Ramayan Mela, chitrakoot, Ayodhya Prayag, etc. For her excellent dance performance she was felicitated by the Hon. President of India Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma in the year 1993. In the year 1994, Madhya Pradesh Government awarded her with ‘Chakradhar Fellowship’ for her outstanding contribution in the art of dance. Her land mark research in 2013, under the Ministry of Culture Senior Fellowship, was a singularly unique indepth research in Kathak in the unique intraform of ‘Gat’ titled ‘Kathak Nritya Apariharya Anga- Gat Nikas, Avadharana,Vibhinna Prakaar evam nikas padhhati kriyatmak adhyayan’