SUFI KATHAK: Dance of the soul by Manjari Chaturvedi An inspired alchemist, Kathak danseuse Manjari Chaturvedi melds Sufi poetry and its devotional music — the Qawwali — with the classical traditional dance form in which she had been trained. Out of this blending and erasing of stipulated boundaries emerged Sufi Kathak, a style that combines traditional narrative and spiritual quest.