A versatile dancer & choreographer, Papiha has a multitude of compositions to her credit which have been showcased in India, on national television and in International forums.
Initiated into dance by her choreographer-dancer parents, Shri Yog Sunder & Smt. Geetasree Desai, Papiha trained in Odissi under the doyen Guru Mayadhar Raut for 2 decades. Papiha has been intrigued by the muti cultural diversity of dance forms in India since an early age, which led her to learn Kuchipudi under Smt. Swapna Sundari & Smt. Seetha Nagajothy and martial forms of Mayurbhanj Chhau under Shri Olekh Niranjan Bisoi and Kalari payattu under Shri Narayanan Embranthiri in Kerala. With the Indian Revival Group she had the opportunity to explore the diverse traditional forms of India & the creative genre of Indian dance. Her passion for dance fuelled her desire to learn techniques of modern dance, choreography & improvisation under American choreographers & South East Asian Dance Forms under a special project.
Papiha has performed & presented her work across India, USA, Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, UK, France, Muscat, Reunion, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea & Japan.
She has conducted lecture demonstrations & workshops in prominent schools of Delhi as Dance Consultant for Times of India’s education program for several years.
Papiha has created an impressive body of choreographic work which includes:
In recent years, she has chosen to lend continuity as Choreographer-Director of the Indian Revival Group to the great work done by her illustrious father, Shri Yog Sunder Desai.
