Navina Jafa is both a concert artist of Kathak and a scholar on the dance form.. Her specialization in performance ranges from producing choreographic pieces that a grounded in deep research but also rendering effective lecture demonstrations linking the Kathak format with several other issues – Conflict Transformation; Education & Dance; Storytelling and Dance. Her work in the field of dance also contains experimental work such as Bound Unbound with a Pakistani Photographer Mansoora Hasan, and Dance in Clay an experiment with Rachael Cohen an American Modern Dancer and Patty Rosenblatt.

She was awarded the best dancers award in a national dance competition Sangeetayan, and was the recipient of the National Research scholarship of Dance (Government of India). Navina combines her performance with a deep scholarship of Kathak, and has completed her PhD on the dance form and related performing communities, patronage, performing structures, and nuances. She was appointed Research Scholar with the Kathak Kendra in 1998-99; her job was to build linkages between theoretical and practical traditions.

National Museum: ( 2008) The Concept of Spring in Indian Dance : A choreographic composition and a lecture of the ethos of Spring,

Ultimate Ecstacy: (2009)  Spirituality and Mysticism : Sufism :  A performance and lecture on by Dr. Navina Jafa,

Agra Bazaar: (2009) An initiative of the non profit organization Asian Heritage Foundation that recreated the value of cultural and creative industries in the form of an innovative Theatre where the audience were actors as well. Dr. Jafa was commissioned to choreograph and perform a special section on coutesans and Sufi music, and

Solah Sringar: (2010) A Choreography with 12 dancers on the concept of the art of decoration of an Indian Bride. Commissioned by Rajeev Scenegraphers.

She Continues vigorous practice, and is working on the mimetic aspect of Kathak which is languishing tradition. She learned for a while from well known dancer Ms. Uma Sharma, the art of abhinaya.

Training in Dance:-Navina Trained with Maestro Pandit Birju Maharaj for over 10 years. Her training started at age of 10 with Late Ratan Lal in Lahkimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh in the school of Jaipur gharana. She proceeded to train in Lucknow Gharana  at Kathak Kendra the National school of Kathak dance in New Delhi and was awarded the Kathak Kendra scholarship, with :-

She also trained with Ms. Uma Sharma in Abhinaya, selected performance & Lecture Demonstrations:-

Research Papers on Dance:-

Crossing Borders: Experiments in Dance:-