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 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 …
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 …
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 …