Antara Datta started learning Kathak at the age of five from Laxmi Bannerjee in Kolkata, India. She earned her degree in Kathak from Bangia Sangeet Parishad in Kolkata. She received advanced training in the Lucknow gharana style of Kathak from "Sringar Mani" Srimati Anuradha Nag (a senior disciple of Pandit Birju Maharaj), artistic director of the Tarangini School of dance in San Jose, California and also from Kiran Chauhan (a senior disciple of Pandit Birju Maharaj ), who is currently a full time faculty at the Anila Sinha Foundation in Chicago. The name "Anga Kala Kathak Academy" was coined by her guru Srimati Anuradha Nag. Antara Datta held an Adjunct Faculty position of Kathak, in the Cornish College of Arts in Seattle, WA in Fall 2010. Currently she holds an adjunct faculty position of Kathak at SIMA (Seattle Indian Music Academ
