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Dancing Around India: Chapter 6 – Odissi

Srishti Bhattacharyya

Kasturi Pattanaik was another individual who played a huge role in the development of traditional Odissi dance into a contemporary form. She, with her creations, had left a deep and artistic impact in the minds of the people which affected the growth and evolution of Odissi. Her new concepts, themes and techniques, helped Odissi to develop from its former Mahari, Gotipua to its current form.

Dancing Around India – One

Aritri Chatterjee

It’s been 2 years now, after the car accident but Sunetra looked at her shelf full of trophies and murmured to herself- “I still dance like a peacock Guruji, maybe in my dreams, but I still do. And I’m going to re-discover Dance – in its unique original art form, as is experienced in its true home, all over India.”