Nilima Devi is one on the foremost pioneering Kathak dance artist in the UK. She has been performing, teaching and choreographing Indian dance in the UK for the past 25 years. Trained at the famous Music college of M.S. University Baroda, under the guidance of Pandit Sundarlal Gangani. She founded the Centre for Indian Classical Dance in Leicester in 1981. She has widely performed in India, Germany, Japan and the UK as a soloist and continues to perform new work every year. She has been praised for her graceful interpretations of Kathak stories and her experimental work with cross-cultural art forms such as European classical music's African Drumming and Irish dance.

Based in Leicester, she is responsible for development of South Asian Dance in the City (community), schools and colleges throughout Leicestershire.