Odissi

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Madhur Gupta
Madhavi Mudgal is one of the acclaimed Odissi dancers today. Born in 1951, and growing up in a culturally inclined family in Delhi, Mudgal gravitated to dance and music from a very early age. She was trained in Bharatanatyam and Kathak but after watching an Odissi performance by Sanjukta Panigrahi…
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Madhur Gupta
Madhavi Mudgal is one of the acclaimed Odissi dancers today. Born in 1951, and growing up in a culturally inclined family in Delhi, Mudgal gravitated to dance and music from a very early age. She was trained in Bharatanatyam and Kathak but after watching an Odissi performance by Sanjukta Panigrahi…
in Interview
Supriya Nayak
Odissi is a dance form from the state of Odisha in eastern India. It is recognised as one of the eight classical dance forms of India, and celebrated around the world for its lyricism, sensuality and emphasis on bhakti bhava (attitude of devotion and surrender). Odissi gained visibility in India…
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Madhur Gupta
The dance form of Odissi (earlier known as Orissi) traces its genesis to the classical age of Indian history. Based on the edicts and panels in Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves near Bhubaneswar that depict dancers in court demonstrating the chauka stance of Odissi, it is widely assumed that the style…
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Jiwan Pani writes about the Maahaari dance of Odisha, its history and its references in historical texts.
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Book review of The Winged Form: Aesthetical Essays on Hindustani Rhythm by Sushil Kumar Saxena (New Delhi: Sangeet Natak Akademi. 1979) and Odisi Chita Muruja, edited by Annapurna Misra, and illustrated by Geeta Misra (Cuttack: Cuttack Students' Store. 1979).
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Ashish Mohan Khokar
  Guru Pankaj Charan Das is the fountainhead of Odissi or Orissi, as it was previously known. He was born on March 17, 1921 (or 1925 as per family accounts) into a large joint family that had no sons and therefore was considered accursed. His mother, Kshetramani, was carrying him when she went on…
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Ashish Mohan Khokar
  Out of the four pioneering gurus of Odissi dance (fountainhead Pankaj Charan Das, Deba Prasad Das, Mayadhar Raut), it is Kelubabu, as he was universally known, who brought the dance form into the limelight. That is because not only was he a prolific dancer, composer, choreographer, and promoter…
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