28th edition of the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival got concluded on September 9, with a dance ballet presentation by the host team ‘Srjan’. The five-day festival proved its worth once again to be the most sophisticated platform for Indian classical dance and music in Bhubaneswar.
The festival itinerary of this year was a brilliant mix of young and veteran talent. The festival had four musical and three dance recitals. There was also a function of felicitation where the coveted Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award was conferred upon Odissi music veteran Pandit Ramahari Das and dance Guru Niranjan Rout. Young Odissi dancer Gitanjali Acharya and upcoming Odissi vocalist Matruprasad Das received awards as young achievers. The focus of this article is mostly on the musical components of the festival, for the presentations were extraordinarily exciting and they overpowered the dance segment.
28th edition of the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival got concluded on September 9, with a dance ballet presentation by the host team ‘Srjan’. The five-day festival proved its worth once again to be the most sophisticated platform for Indian classical dance and music in Bhubaneswar.
The festival itinerary of this year was a brilliant mix of young and veteran talent. The festival had four musical and three dance recitals. There was also a function of felicitation where the coveted Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award was conferred upon Odissi music veteran Pandit Ramahari Das and dance Guru Niranjan Rout. Young Odissi dancer Gitanjali Acharya and upcoming Odissi vocalist Matruprasad Das received awards as young achievers. The focus of this article is mostly on the musical components of the festival, for the presentations were extraordinarily exciting and they overpowered the dance segment.
