Personal Details
| Date of Birth/Age | March 24, 1952 |
| Education | M.A. (Dance & Sanskrit Lit.) |
| Field of expertise | Bharatanatyam |
| Academic/Professional activities |
» Awarded Govt. of India Scholarship and trained under late Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale, Premchand Hombal has performed in India and abroad including Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, International Buddha Mahotsav, Varanasi, national and international seminars and conferences, Bharat Mahotsav in Soviet Russia (1987), Bharat Mahotsav, Moscow (1988) and International Festival of Music and Dance, Finland (1993).
» He has also choreographed several dramas and ballets: ‘Uttar Priyadarshi’, ‘Tripathaga’, ‘Buddha Charita’, ‘Jatakam’, ‘Mahishasur Mardini’. » Apart from directing Sanskrit plays ‘Dootvakyam’, ‘Karnabharam’ ‘Oorubhangam’, Premchand Hombal has acted in ‘Malvikagni Mitram’, ‘Vikramorvashiyam’ and ‘Vanisambhar’. His latest choreographed dance for ‘Abhigyan Shakuntalam’ is for Doordarshan. |
| Name of the institution(s)you associated with |
» Reader (Bharatanatyam) » Faculty of Performing Arts, B.H.U., Varanasi |
| Honours/Awards/Fellowships,etc. |
» NAVA RASA SANGITA VACHASPATI AWARD, New Sadhna Kala Kendra (2001) » AVANTIKA NATIONAL HUMANITY AWARD, Avantika, Delhi (2001) » SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY AWARD, U.P. Govt. (2001) » NRITYA-KALA NIDHI AWARD, Jagatguru » SINGAR MANI AWARD, Sur Singar Sansad, Mumbai (1979) |
| Books/Articles authored | In addition to articles published in books and journals, ‘Improvisation in Traditional Arts’ his team-work project with Prof. Hiromoto Makabe and Prof. Kusuhara Tomoko of Keio University, Japan has been appreciated. |
| Any association with foreign institution(s) | Conducted Workshop at Kalapadma Bharatanatyam Dance Academy, Chicago, (USA) |
| Any other information | Is associated with Smt. Mala Hombal his wife in her work with mentally retarded children. |
