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Orchestra for the Shalini Goel/Monishita Ray Ranga Pooja
No Indian dance performance is complete without a live orchestra. This was one of the best orchestras I have seen in recent years. I have posted a (video here) of this event, to give you a flavor of the music and dance performance.
This orchestra played both for Shalini Goel on July 31 and for Monishita Ray on Aug 27, 2006.
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From Left to Right:
Guru Jyoti Rout
Sri Satchidananda Das: Pakhawaj or Two-sided Drum
Sri Sarat Kumar Sahoo: Vocals, Harmonium(Keyboard), earned the honorific "Golden Voice"
Sri Ramesh Chandra Das: Violin, Professor Music, Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya
Sri Abhiram Nanda: Flute (student of Mohini Patnaik and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia)
Sri Swapneshwar Chakroborty: Sitar, composer and founder of the Odissi Research Center
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Best viewed as a slideshow of the Odissi Dance Set.
A typical Odissi repertoire consists of the invocatory item 'Mangalacharan', a tribute to Lord Jagannath and the other Gods, also with stanzas to welcome the audience and to thank one's Gurus.
'Abhinaya' is a dramatic piece where mudras, facial expressions and body language are used as tools to emote or describe. In Odissi, abhinaya pieces are performed to both Sanskrit and Oriya songs.
'Moksha' is a pure-dance piece where the dancer tries to merge with the divine.
Institute: Jyoti Kala Mandir
Guru: Jyoti Rout
Orchestra for the Shalini Goel/Monishita Ray Ranga Pooja
No Indian dance performance is complete without a live orchestra. This was one of the best orchestras I have seen in recent years. I have posted a (video here) of this event, to give you a flavor of the music and dance performance.
This orchestra played both for Shalini Goel on July 31 and for Monishita Ray on Aug 27, 2006.
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From Left to Right:
Guru Jyoti Rout
Sri Satchidananda Das: Pakhawaj or Two-sided Drum
Sri Sarat Kumar Sahoo: Vocals, Harmonium(Keyboard), earned the honorific "Golden Voice"
Sri Ramesh Chandra Das: Violin, Professor Music, Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya
Sri Abhiram Nanda: Flute (student of Mohini Patnaik and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia)
Sri Swapneshwar Chakroborty: Sitar, composer and founder of the Odissi Research Center
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Best viewed as a slideshow of the Odissi Dance Set.
A typical Odissi repertoire consists of the invocatory item 'Mangalacharan', a tribute to Lord Jagannath and the other Gods, also with stanzas to welcome the audience and to thank one's Gurus.
'Abhinaya' is a dramatic piece where mudras, facial expressions and body language are used as tools to emote or describe. In Odissi, abhinaya pieces are performed to both Sanskrit and Oriya songs.
'Moksha' is a pure-dance piece where the dancer tries to merge with the divine.
Institute: Jyoti Kala Mandir
Guru: Jyoti Rout