Odissi doyen Kumkum enthralls alongside together with her ‘abhinaya’
By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Noted Odissi dancer and guru Kumkum Mohanty, extensively recognised for her flawless ‘abhinaya’, enthralled paintings connoisseurs with a effectivity primarily based totally on author Pratibha Ray’s ‘Yajnaseni’ inside the metropolis on Wednesday.
Hosting and performing at ‘An Evening of Abhinaya’ organised by her Geeta Govinda Dance & Music Institute, the dancer, in her late 70s, talked about ‘abhinaya’ is a quintessential part of Odissi. Many of her faculty college students moreover carried out on the event. “It is the most important and difficult part of Odissi. I am hosting this ‘abhinaya sandhya’ because I want to show how my students are learning are performing abhinaya. And all of them performed on traditional Odissi songs which is what my gurus had taught me,” she talked about.
Recalling her reminiscences of Mohanty being taught ‘Yajnaseni’ by Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra in her presence, author Pratibha Ray talked about,”Kumkum had carried out this abhinaya many situations on stage and nationwide television and continues to take motion gracefully and effortlessly even in the mean time.” Mohanty is among the many early disciples of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.
The event was attended by Culture Minister Aswini Patra, Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, chief advisor(Office of the Chief Minister) R Balakrishnan and author Pratibha Ray.
BHUBANESWAR: Noted Odissi dancer and guru Kumkum Mohanty, extensively recognised for her flawless ‘abhinaya’, enthralled paintings connoisseurs with a effectivity primarily based totally on author Pratibha Ray’s ‘Yajnaseni’ inside the metropolis on Wednesday.
Hosting and performing at ‘An Evening of Abhinaya’ organised by her Geeta Govinda Dance & Music Institute, the dancer, in her late 70s, talked about ‘abhinaya’ is a quintessential part of Odissi. Many of her faculty college students moreover carried out on the event. “It is the most important and difficult part of Odissi. I am hosting this ‘abhinaya sandhya’ because I want to show how my students are learning are performing abhinaya. And all of them performed on traditional Odissi songs which is what my gurus had taught me,” she talked about.
Recalling her reminiscences of Mohanty being taught ‘Yajnaseni’ by Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra in her presence, author Pratibha Ray talked about,”Kumkum had carried out this abhinaya many situations on stage and nationwide television and continues to take motion gracefully and effortlessly even in the mean time.” Mohanty is among the many early disciples of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The event was attended by Culture Minister Aswini Patra, Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, chief advisor(Office of the Chief Minister) R Balakrishnan and author Pratibha Ray.
