FESTIVAL COMMITTEE:ODISSI INTERNATIONAL-2010

ODISSI INTERNATIONAL-2010

(an annual union  of the global odissi family in the land of odissi)

December 18-22

Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyala Auditorium

Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Greetings from the Land of Odissi.

Welcome to Odissi International-2010.

Odissi International is not merely a dance festival.

It is an initiative to unite the ever growing global Odissi community in the land of Odissi once every year.

The five-day meet would include performances (solo, duet and group presentations), seminars, workshops, screening of films and documentaries on Odissi, exhibition of books, brochures, photographs, journals and CDs on Odissi; visit to temples, museums and dance institutions. The festival venue would also have stalls showcasing Odissi costumes, jewellery and publications on dance.

FESTIVAL COMMITTEE

Chairperson: Guru Ramahari Das

Former Chief Executive, Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar

Vice-Chairperson: Kedar Mishra, Scholar & Critic

President, Orissa Samskruti Academy

Convener & Director: Shyamhari Chakra, Journalist & Arts Critic

MEMBERS:

Sarat Behera (Doordarshan, Bhubaneswar.

Sarat Paikray (Sr.Journalist, ETV, Bhubaneswar),

Dhrutikam Mohanty (Bureau Chief, The Sunday Indian, Orissa)

Patitapaban Sahu, Journalist (Cultural Affairs), Dharitri

Tarakant Parida (Director, Orissa Modern Art Gallery)

Arakshita Dash (Sangeet Sudhakar Balakrushna Dash Foundation)

Jagabandhu Jena (Secretary, Devdasi Nrutya Mandir).

Manoj Dash (Kaala, Bhubaneswar).

Debi Prasad Mishra (Srjan, Bhubaneswar),

Pramod Kumar Rout (Orissa Dance Academy)

Lingaraj Pradhan (Rudrakshya Odissi Foundation.

Ranjana Dave (Delhi)

Madhulita Mohapatra (Bengaluru)

Priya Singh (Mumbai)

Manasi Pandya (Baroda)

Rajnita Banarjee,(Kolkata)

PATRONS:

Shri Akshay Kumar Parija (Muscat), Ms.Poly Patnaik (Bhubaneswar), Shri Khirod Patnaik (Bhubaneswar) 

ADVISORS:

Guru Aruna Mohanty, Guru Ratikant Mohapatra, Guru Gajendra Panda,

Guru Sujata Mohapatra, Ms.Mrinalini Padhi (advocate, social activist & filmmaker), Ms.Sangita Gosain (musician)

PARTICIPATION CONFIRMED

(Till December 1)

BANGLADESH

Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts, Dhaka

Farhana Chowdhury

Sayeeda Shamsiara

Silvia Afrin - Faria

Hena Hossain

Refaya Zaman Priya

Tamanna Tabassum

Sabrin Afroz Reya

Md. Jashim Uddin

Md. Amit Hossain

BELGIUM

Katalin Nemeth

FRANCE

Chloe Romero

GERMANY

Rie Kohrs

HUNGARY

Adrien Meszaros

Sundari Dance Group

ITALY

Sanatani Rombola

JAPAN

Kazuko Yasunobu

Yuko Yanagisawai

Akane Hakamada

Harumi Yoshimori

Sumika Kanazawa

Yuko Ishizuka

Eiko Shinohara

Yumiko Chatani

Ayumi Hamawaki

Momomi Aburatani

KOREA

Beena Keum

MALAYASIA

Nritta Ganeshi Manoharan

Daisinga Rani

RUSSIA

Taissia Shpulnikova

Irina Komissarova

SINGAPORE

Raka Maitra, Director, Chowk-Centre for Odissi

Megha Srinivasan

Meera Gurumurthy

Reeti Rajguru

Gayathri Gopal

UK

Khavita Kaur, London

USA

Jyoti Rout

Amanda Geroy

Shibani Patnaik

Ishani Behera

Neha Nayak

Nilanjana Roy

Alisha Chakravorthy

Nayantara Nanda Kumar

Douglas Rdings

Shraddha Suman (Moglie)

Melissa Sproul, Guru: Late S.N.Jena

Urmila Chatterjee, USA

Anurima Banarjee

CANADA

Menaka Thakkar

Neena Jayarajan

INDIA

Andhra Pradesh

Sonali Acharyee, Hyderabad

Delhi

Guru Surendra Nath Jena School of Odissi

Jyoti Srivastava, New Delhi

Kasturi Patnaik, Sankalp

Reela Hota

Swati Sarma

Supriya Nayak, Guru: Kiran Segal

Moumita Ghosh, Guru: Madhavi Mudgal

Karnarnataka

Bangalore

Sarita Mishra

Madhulita Mohapatra

Mysore

Sindhu Kiran

Orissa

Minati Mishra

Aruna Mohanty

Ileana Citaristi

Sujata Mohapatra

Gajendra Panda

Naba Kishore Mishra

Sujata Mishra

Meera Das

Pranati Mohanty, Angul

Itishree Dwibedy, Bhubaneswar

Gayatri Chand, Bhubaneswar

Madhusmita Mohanty, ODA

Rosalin Nayak, ODA

Suhag Nalini Das

Dibyashri Panda, Suravi

Debasis Patnaik, Rourkela

Saswat Joshi, Guru: Ileana Citaristi, Art Vision, Bhubaneswar

Gayatri Ranbir, Guru: D.C.Ranbir

Aurosmita Acharya, Suravi

Rajashri Praharaj, Srjan

Bijan Palai, ODA

Gitanjali Acharya, Guru:Sujata Mohapatra

Lingaraj Pradhan, Rudrakshya Odissi Foundation

Manosmita Panda, Srjan

Sonali Mohapatra Nanda, Guru. D.C.Ranbir

Sudeshna Jena, Guru Subas Swain

Sanjukta Dutta, Rudrakshya

Rashmi Ranjan Barik, Rudrakshya

Lipsa Dash, Guru: Sujata Mishra

Rashmi Raj, Nrityagram

Manasi Tripathy, Nrityagram

Shyama Mohanty, Rudrakshya

Nimisha Sahoo

Pabitra Kumar Pradhan, ODA

Sridutta Bhol, ODA

Pooja Jena, ODA

Subhalaxmi Padhi, UDRA

Preetisha Mohapatra, Srjan

Gunjan Dance Acacdemy

Suravi, Bhubaneswar

Madhya Pradesh

Chhandak Kala Academy, Indore

Susumna Billore

Anurit Patwardhan

Aditi Mehta

Divya Bharati

Niharika Singh

Maharashtra

Leesa Mohanty, Mumbai

Namrata Gupta, Mumbai

Priya Singh, Mumbai

Srishti Upasana Sahoo, Mumbai

Aditi Mitra, Mumbai

Shraoshee Majumdar, Mumbai

Aditi Anil Mirvankar, Mumbai

Angira Chakrabarty-Dasgupta

Puducherry

Sangeeta Dash

West Bengal

Kolkata

Monalisa Ghosh

Kaustavi Sarkar

Rajnita Banarjee

Shayomita Dasgupta

Pompy Paul

Mahasweta Mazumdar

Poushali Mukherjee & troupe

WORKSHOP:

YOGA THERAPY FOR ODISSI DANCERS

By Cain and Revital Caroll, USA

FILM SCREENINGS ON :

SAKHI PILA (BOY ODISSI DANCER) (2005) INDIA

Director:Santosh Gour Duration:20 MINS

Synopsis:The film is about SAKHI PILA i.e. boy temple dancers, which also traces the origin of Odissi dance through "Goti Pua" practice in ancient Orissa

ANCHORS:

AMANDA GEROY, AUROSMITA ACHARYA, DEBASHREE PATNAIK,

LIPSA DASH, KAUSTAVI SARKAR, NALINI NANDAKUMAR, GEETA RAO, SHIBANGI MOHAPATRA, BHADRA CHOUDHURY

MEDIA COORDINATOR:

RANJANA DAVE

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT/PATRONAGE

Kalpana Dance Theatre, Kuala Lumpur

Jyoti Kala Mandir, USA

Orissa Dance Academy, Bhubaneswar

Srjan, Bhubaneswar

Gunjan Dance Academy, Cuttack

Tridhara, Bhubaneswar

Bansi Bilas, Bhubaneswar

Rudrakshya Odissi Foundation, Bhubaneswar

Abhinaya Dance Academy, Guwahati, Assam

Orissa Society for Performing Arts, Bhubaneswar

Orissa Samskruti Academy

Devdasi Nrutya Mandir, Bhubaneswar

Orissa Modern Art Gallery, Bhubaneswar

FESTIVAL HOSTED BY: SAMSKRITIKI

For further queries/communication, please mail to:

odissi.international@gmail.com

Cell. 94371-08815 (Shyamhari Chakra)

About Sansthan

SAMSKRITIKI – An introduction

In 1989, a few friends in Odisha’s small town of Kendujhar – in their late 20’s then - thought of forming a forum that would intellectually enrich them through an inter-disciplinary approach to knowledge. They named the forum as Renaissance Universe and continued to host monthly seminars on a wide range of topics that ranged from science to philosophy and language to technology.

Three years later, the forum was rechristened as Samskritiki on Utkal Divas, the Foundation Day of Odisha State, and subsequently it was registered as a Society with the Government of Odisha. The seminars apart, Samskritiki continues to host an annual state-level art festival – Kendujhar Kala Utsav – at Kendujhar that features events of visual art, performing arts and literature. It also runs a public library in the town besides promoting and supporting smaller libraries and cultural organizations in the district. It has established a Sunday Art School that is affiliated to Orissa Lalit Kala Akademi and a Crafts Development Centre that has received support from the Development Commissioner of Handicrafts under Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.

After operating for 15 years as a district-level cultural society, Samskritiki extended its activities to the state-level and shifted its base to Bhubaneswar in 2005. Development of a resource and documentation centre on Orissa’s culture in the Capital City has been its primary activity over the past five years. It has also set up an exclusive library on art and culture at the Orissa Modern Art Gallery in Bhubanerswar since 2007. Dissemination of a daily e-bulletin (samskritiki@googlegroups.com) containing news and information on culture has been another major activity of Samskritiki since August 2007. Through the bulletin, we are reaching out to scores of individuals and institutions across the globe and developing a linkage among them all.  

Samskritiki was instrumental in setting up of the Odisha Samskruti Academy

(Orissa Culture Academy) - its sister institution - in Bhubaneswar since 2008. The Academy, headed by young scholar-journalist Kedar Mishra, hosts the annual Udayaraga poetry festival, aalap (a dialogue with the distinguished) and aasara (concerts) at regular intervals.

Samskritiki’s creative papier machie craft developed by Arun Kumar Ojha of Keonjhar, a key-member of the Samskritiki family, has put Odisha prominently in the crafts map of India after Tamil Nadu and Jammu & Kashmir, the two states which were earlier known for their paier machie craft.  

Odissi International would the first major cultural event that Samskritiki would host in December in Bhubaneswar with nearly 200 dancers coming from 12 countries. 

Samskritiki is not merely an institution. It is a campaign for culture that seeks your support and intimate involvement.   

Shyamhari Chakra

Founder-Secretary

SAMSKRITIKI