For her excellent dance performance 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’

Dr Vibha Dadheech’s dance performances have a beautiful showcase of art from both Jaipur and Lucknow gharanas. Specialities of her dance includes performing the most difficult layakaris with ease in the form of todas, tukdas, parans, paramelus and tatkar, mesmerizing display of ‘Bhav’ in gatnikas, Thumri, Bhajans, etc. While elegant movements, vivid expression of emotions, easy, intelligible and spectacular use of ‘Aprachalit Taals’ and bandishes are some specialities of her traditional dance, Dr Vibha Dadheech is an experimental artist in the boundaries of the tradition of the art. Her dance creations based on poetic verses in Sanskrit and Hindi gathered her utmost fame. She had been associated with Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya as a Reader - Kathak and currently the director of Natvari Kathak Nritya Academy, Indore, where since 30 years she has not  just trained many students and researchers, but is also managing and collecting a huge dance library along with Guru Dr Puru Dadheech. Natwari currently has 7 branches in India in Maharashtra, Gujrat and Telangana running a new ideal course designed by Dr Vibha Dadheech.  She is also working towards bringing shastras and research to the Kathak students by joining hands with other institutes and conducting various courses on Natya Shastra in reference to Kathak and more recently a course on Kathak Shastra.

An art form needs preservation, propagation and promotion to survive the tests of time. Dr Vibha Dadheech has been working on all these aspects ,giving stage to many upcoming young artists and constantly travelling across the nation to conduct workshops on Kathak. She has curated a number of new courses and is working on developing one of its kind kathak gurukul for kathak research. Keeping in mind the need of today’s global students, she produced Nritya Sarwasva , a video book elaborating on the various intra-forms of Kathak. Her book on essays Nritya Nibandh is one of the most popular books in Kathak. Thus while preserving shastras through her research and well as sampradaya through her delineation of the guru-shisya parampara, she is truly leaving her mark in the history of Kathak. She is currently an Honorary Professor (Professor Emeritus) in the Faculty of Arts, Communication and Indic Studies (FACIS), Sri Sri University.

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