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'''Mahua Mukherjee'''{{ref|1|[Note]}} is an exponent of the Indian classical dance<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=re3MCwAAQBAJ&q=gaudiya+dance&pg=PA142|title=Worlding Dance|last=Foster|first=S.|date=2009-06-10|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230236844|language=en}}</ref> form [[Gaudiya Nritya]]. She is a researcher and teacher at [[Rabindra Bharati University]]<ref name=Interview>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/dance/dance-of-the-ancients/article1608014.ece | title=Dance of the ancients | newspaper=[[The Hindu]] | date=9 April 2011 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Bharatram, Kumudha}}</ref> and Dean of the faculty of fine arts {{As of|2014|1|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rbu.ac.in/faculty.php | title=Members of The Faculties | publisher=[[Rabindra Bharati University]] | accessdate=14 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212203809/http://www.rbu.ac.in/faculty.php | archive-date=12 December 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Along with her husband Amitava Mukherjee, she has been reviving the dance style through her career from 1980s.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/of-euphoria-and-grace-in-dancing-devotion/ | title=Of euphoria and grace in dancing devotion | newspaper=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)]] | date=11 November 2013 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Alom, Zahangir}}</ref> She has also given performances and lectures as visiting professor like at the [[University of Oklahoma]], USA.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/summer-players/ | title=Summer players | newspaper=[[Indian Express]] | date=7 June 2013 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Parul}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=227573 | title=Presentation of Navarasa through dance | date=25 March 2012 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | newspaper=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)]] | author=Alom, Zahangir}}</ref> She has learned the dance from Bratindranath, Sashi Mahato, Narottam Sanyal, Gambhir Singh Mudha, Mukund Das Bhattacharya and other practitioners of the [[Chhau dance|Chhau]], Nachni, Kushan and Kirtaniya traditions.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hindu.com/ms/2006/12/26/stories/2006122600040100.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108051652/http://www.hindu.com/ms/2006/12/26/stories/2006122600040100.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 November 2012 | title=The wheel has come full circle | newspaper=[[The Hindu]] | date=26 December 2006 | accessdate=7 January 2014 | author=Rajan, Anjana}}</ref>

Mukherjee is also the director of institutes Gaudiya Nritya Bharati and Mitrayan. She is M.Sc., Ph.D. in Botany. She had initially also taken training in [[Bharata Natyam]]. She is considered as the "fountainhead" of the dance.<ref name=Interview/> She has also been subject of a poem written by Nigerian writer [[Tanure Ojaide]] published in her collection "The Beauty I Have Seen: A Trilogy".<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbPWUNyy4FQC&q=mahua+mukherje&pg=PA88 | title=The Beauty I Have Seen: A Trilogy | publisher=African Books Collective | author=Tanure Ojaide | author-link=Tanure Ojaide | year=2010 | pages=88 | isbn=978-9788422297}}</ref> She also features in the documentary film ''Geetmay Tanmay - Trance in Motion'' made by the [[Films Division of India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry7y9Xnp_E |title=Trance in Motion : Short film by Films Division |publisher=Gadurr Media, [[YouTube]] |accessdate=7 January 2013}}</ref>

==Books==
She wrote a book on Bengal Classical Dance, Gaudiya Nritya. It was published from The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.<ref>{{Cite book
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|title=Gaudiya Nritya
|last=Mukherjee
|first=Mahua
|publisher=The Asiatic Society
|year=2000
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|location=Kolkata
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==Notes==
<sup>{{note|1|[Note]}}</sup>Mukherjee is also credited as Mukhopadhyay. For further reading refer [[Mukherjee#Etymology|etymology of the surname]].

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