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All set for Ekamra fete

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Suravi Samman to be conferred on two Odissi dancers

BHUBANESWAR: The stage is set for the four-day 7th annual Ekamra National Dance and Music Festival at Jayadev Bhawan commencing June 1. The event is being hosted by the city-based Suravi Odissi dance institution headed by Guru Pitambar Biswal. Briefing media about the festival here on Friday, Biswal announced that Odissi dancers Aruna Mohanty and Dipti Routray would be conferred the annual Suravi Samman-2009 instituted by the institution during the festival. The award was instituted last year to honour two prominent Odissi dancers belonging to the styles of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and Guru Debaprasad Das. Sujata Mohapatra and Sangeeta Dash were honoured last year for the two styles respectively, he added.

Inaugural event

The inaugural evening of the festival will feature flute recital by Mohini Mohan Patnaik followed by Odissi dance recital by Suravi Samman awardee Dipti Routray from Cuttack, Bharatanatyam by Komal Gujarati from Pune to conclude with Odissi by the American dancer Amanda Geroy, a disciple of Sujata Mohapatra. Similarly, the second evening would commence with Odissi vocal recital by Sur Sarita Rout, followed by Odissi dance by Gayatri Ranbir, daughter and disciple of Guru Durga Charan Ranbir, Kuchipudi by Padmapriya from Bangalore and Odissi by Sangya Sucharita from Suravi Odessa institute, informed Biswal.

Percussion exponent Guru Dhaneswar Swain’s solo mardal recital would mark the commencement of the third evening that would also feature Odissi dance by Suravi Samman awardee Aruna Mohanty, Kathak by Kolkata-based Konkana Bhattacharya and Odissi by Munmun Chakraborty from Cuttack.

The concluding evening would showcase dancers of host organisation Suravi in solo, duet and group formats. It would also present latest choreographic compositions of Guru Biswal.

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