Renowned classical dancer Dr Ananda Shankar Jayant has been conferred with the prestigious Guru Deba Prasad Das award instituted in memory of the renowned Odissi maestro.
Renowned classical dancer Dr Ananda Shankar Jayant has been conferred with the prestigious Guru Deba Prasad Das award instituted in memory of the renowned Odissi maestro.
The citation was presented here by Odisha industries, school and mass education minister Debi Prasad Misra on Friday evening on behalf of Tridhara dance institution that organised a three-day festival.
Present on the occasion were Odisha Board of Revenue member Ashok K. Tripathi and arts scholar Ashish Mohan Khokar.
The Hyderabad-based Ananda, who is a Padmashree-winning exponent of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi, is also a choreographer, teacher, writer and top bureaucrat being a motivational speaker in recent times. At the festival, Dr Jayant presented a Tarangam in Ragamalika and to the eight-beat Adi talam, essaying Lord Krishna childhood heroics and mischief. The intricacies of the eventual ‘jathi’ patterns of foot movements were performed on the edges of a brass plate.
