Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Nirmal Jena, artistic director of the Sydney-based Odissi Dance & Music Company and his sister, Pratibha Jena Singh, director of the ...

Odissi is one of the famous classical Indian dances from Orissa state. Odissi is a highly inspired, passionate, ecstatic and sensuous form of dance. Like most of the South Indian classical dances of ...

In her essay “Liminal Spaces, Odissi as a continually evolving fom”, Ranjana Dave writes about what went into systematising the dance form of Odissi. She says :“Between 1957 and 1960, in night long ...

It’s an irony that Lord Nataraj, the creator of dance, is male while his creation has been the bastion of the female. Similarly, although the beauty and popularity of the classical dance style of ...