Navtej Johar

Navtej Johar is an Indian Bharatnatyam exponent and choreographer.

Johar trained in Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra, a dance school of Rukmini Arundale at Chennai, and with Leela Samson at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in New Delhi. He also studied later at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University.

Johar has collaborated with composers Stephen Rush, Shubha Mudgal and installation artist Sheeba Chachi among others. He has also acted in Earth by Deepa Mehta and Khamosh Pani by Sabiha Sumar.

He is among the few male dancers of classical form in India and first Sikh to have taken to the art form.