The correct answer is Odissi.

• The noted dancer Ranjana Gauhar is an exponent of the Odissi dance style.

• Ranjana Gauhar was honored with the Padmashree Award in 2003 for her outstanding services in the field of Odissi Dance.
• She is also a winner of the National Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
• Odissi:
  • Odissi is one of the famous classical Indian dances from the Odisha state.
  • The rulers of this region built magnificent temples, which became the center of art and culture.
  • It was around these temples that Odissi, one of India’s scintillating dance-forms was born, nurtured, and nourished.
  • The Mahari's, who were originally temple dancers, came to be employed in royal courts, which resulted in the degeneration of the art form.
  • Around this time, a class of boys called gotipuas was trained in art.
  • Facial expressions, hand gestures, and body movements are used to suggest a certain feeling, an emotion, or one of the nine rasas.

• Kathak is the classical dance of Uttar Pradesh.
  • Kathak is said to be derived from the word ‘katha’, meaning ‘the art of storytelling.
• Bharatnatyam is the classical dance of Tamil Nadu.
  • The Bharatnatyam dance flourished in the Hindu temples of South India.
• Kuchipudi is the classical dance of Andhra Pradesh.
  • It derives its name from the Kuchipudi village of Andhra Pradesh.