Director: Mayadhar Raut
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Summary: The 4th International Odissi Dance Festival in 2011 was held from December 23 to 30, 2011, at Rabindra Mandap Bhubaneswar. The festival was preceded by an attempt to create a world record by having around 550 dancers perform together at Kalinga Stadium. It saw the participation of most major Odissi ensembles in Orissa and a few from outside the state. With performances for over twelve hours each day, the festival featured several hundred performers in solo, duet and group works over eight days. In its scale, the festival offered a bird's eye view of the landscape of contemporary Odissi and its ever-changing nature. It foregrounded new trends in choreography, music and costuming. The seminars during the festival sparked lively debates on issues and concerns in Odissi. One such concern, voiced repeatedly, questioned the definition of tradition within the space of the dance form and the limits it could be stretched to. This raised parallel questions about innovation and experimentation in Odissi - a debate that found itself mirrored in the performances during the festival.
Kiran Segal was born in Dehradun and grew up in Bombay and London. Born to Zohra and Rameshwar Segal, she was exposed to the performing arts from a young age. She returned to India as a Bharatanatyam dancer, then taking to Odissi under Guru Mayadhar Raut in Delhi. Eventually, she decided to make Odissi her mainstay. Today, she is one of the leading dancers of the Mayadhar Raut style.
Here she performs an ashtapadi choreographed by Mayadhar Rout. Nindati chandanam shows Radha pining for Krishna
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