About Rekha Jena Yadav:  

Rekha Jena Yadav, Guruji’s daughter, resides in Rajasthan with her husband Dilip Kumar Yadav and her son Eklavya.  Eklavya is undergoing training in Odissi since 2004. He is receiving a scholarship in Odissi from the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT). 

Rekha carries on the tradition of Guru Surendra Nath Jena’s Style of Odissi Dance.  She taught Odissi at the Mayo College Girl’s School, in Ajmer, Rajasthan.

She has also learned tabla from Guru Ravi Sharma and Chhau from Guru Acharya Lingaraj.

She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Delhi.

Rekha presented various Odissi lecture-demonstrations and performances, including dancing at the Sangeet Natak Akademi awards festival in Delhi in 2007.

She performed and taught in Eketerienburg, Russia in 2005. 

In 1987-88 she worked with BHOOMIKA, Narendra Sharma’s creative dance troupe, performing in Dehradun,U.P., Roorkee, Haryana, and Delhi.