Samyukta – Odissi Vilas school dance recital (Chabot College, August, 2019)
Our Odissi school put together a school recital Samyukta – an Ode to Odissi Sacred Temple Dance in August at Chabot College theatre. Our teacher Shri Vishnu Tattva Das and the students of Odissi Vilas performed, and we were honored to have guest musicians from Odisha, India to accompany us on this special event (http://odissimusic.org/). It was a …
Odisha Day celebrations (Saratoga Community Center, April 2019)
Getting to pair up with Manasi, an elegant and graceful dancer/teacher for a duet performance at Odisha day celebrations. Unfortunately, the videographer left the premises right before we went on stage. So no recording of the performance itself. Instead, I have attached few stills captured during and post our performance. Item name: Saveri Pallavi
Vasant Utsav (San Ramon, CA, April 2019)
We were invited to perform at the San Ramon theatre that accommodates an intimate audience of a hundred as part of the Vasant Utsav event. A year back we were just 3 of us performing vasant pallavi. This year we doubled that number for our stage performance from 3 to 6! As always it was …
Vasant Utsav, April 2018 (San Ramon, CA)
Vasant Pallavi– The word “Pallavi” is derived from the Sanskrit word pallava, which means the bud of a leaf, or the shoots of a tree, which are very tender. As a small seed grows gradually into a large tree, in Pallavi, a tune is sung in a particular raga and it develops gradually into different varieties. Vasant Pallavi celebrates the …
Livermore temple dance festival December 2017
Title of piece: Kalyan Pallavi Original choreographer: Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Music: Balakrishna Das (for dancer Priyambada Mohanty in 1959) I jumped on an opportunity to perform a duet of Kalyan Pallavi with Manasi at the Livermore temple festival. It was such a treat to rehearse and learn some of the graceful movements with Manasi who …
Palace of Fine Arts 2017
Title of piece: Kalyan Pallavi Original choreographer: Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Music: Balakrishna Das (for dancer Priyambada Mohanty in 1959) Merely a handful of people around the world are familiar with this choreography as evidenced by the scarcity of archived material for Kalyaan Pallavi in Odissi. My teacher, Guru Vishnu Tattva Das conducted a 2 days intensive …
Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions 2016
Ethnic Dance Festival in San Francisco is an annual cultural event that has been successfully running for close to four decades. It is an occasion to celebrate the rich cultural diversity of the Bay Area in one of the grandest settings in San Francisco—the Palace of Fine Arts. Auditions for the summer 2017 event took …
Shirdi Sai Parivaar performance in 2016
Four of us from Odissi Vilas performed Mohana Pallavi at the Shirdi Sai Parivar venue in Milpitas, CA in 2016. The venue was intimate, the organizers were extremely cordial and the audience members were receptive. Overall it was a wonderful experience and I look forward to the next opportunity to perform in this beautiful space …
First solo performance in 2015
Title of piece: Mohana Pallavi In Odissi as in most of the other Indian Classical dance forms, dance is split into 2 categories: Nritta & Nritya. Nritta is the technical, pure dance. Nritya is expressional dance. Pallavi is an example of pure dance. Pallavi literally means blossoming. This is applicable not only to the dance …