About


ODISSI INTERNATIONAL - 2010
(an annual union of the global Odissi family in the Land of Odissi)
December 18, 2010 - December 22, 2010
Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya 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 will include performances (solo, duet and group presentations), seminars, workshops, screening of films and documentaries on Odissi, an exhibition of books, brochures, photographs, journals and CDs on Odissi; visit to temples, museums and dance institutions. The festival venue would also have stalls selling Odissi costumes, jewellery and publications on dance.

FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
Chairperson: Guru Ramahari Das, (former Chief Executive, Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar)
Vice-Chairperson: Kedar Mishra (President, Orissa Samskruti Academy)
Convener & Director: Shyamhari Chakra
Members
Sarat Behera (Doordarshan, Bhubaneswar)
Sarat Paikray (Sr.Journalist, ETV, Bhubaneswar)
Dhrutikam Mohanty (Bureau Chief, The Sunday Indian, Orissa)
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, Bhubaneswar)
Ranjana Dave (Mumbai)
Madhulita Mohapatra (Bengaluru)
Priya Singh (Mumbai)
Manasi Pandya (Baroda)
Rajnita Banerjee (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)

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
(As on 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

KOREA
Beena Keum

MALAYSIA
Nritta Ganeshi Manoharan
Daisyga Rani

PAKISTAN
Monalisa Subhadarshini

RUSSIA
Taissia Shpulnikova

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 (scholar & observer)

CANADA
Neena Jayarajan

INDIA

Andhra Pradesh
Sonali Acharyee, Hyderabad

Delhi
Guru Surendra Nath Jena School of Odissi
Pratibha Jena-Singh
Jaya Chattopadhyay
Swaati Chattopadhyay
Jyoti Srivastava, New Delhi
Kasturi Patnaik, Sankalp
Reela Hota
Swati Sarma
Supriya Nayak, Guru: Kiran Segal
Moumita Ghosh, Guru: Madhavi Mudgal

Karnataka
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
Manjushree Panda
Suhag Nalini Das
Preetisha Mohapatra, Srjan
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
Gunjan Dance Acacdemy

Madhya Pradesh
Chhandak Kala Academy, Indore
Susumna Billore
Anurit Patwardhan
Aditi Mehta
Divya Bharati
Niharika Singh

Mumbai
Leesa Mohanty
Namrata Gupta
Priya Singh
Srishti Upasana Sahoo
Aditi Mitra
Shraoshee Majumdar
Aditi Anil Mirvankar
Angira Chakrabarty-Dasgupta

Puducherry
Sangeeta Dash

Kolkata
Debamitra Sengupta
Kaustavi Sarkar
Rajnita Banarjee
Shayomita Dasgupta
Pompy Paul
Mahasweta Mazumdar
Poushali Mukherjee & troupe


COMPERES
Amanda Geroy, Aurosmita Acharya, Debashree Patnaik, Lipsa Dash

WORKSHOP
Yoga Therapy for Odissi Dance
By Cain and Revital Caroll, USA

 
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 e-mail odissi.international@gmail.com
Cell: +91 94371-08815 (Shyamhari Chakra)




















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