Indian Odissi Performer
Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 – 24 June 1997)[1] was a dancer yield India, who was the first exponent of Indian classical danceOdissi. Sanjukta was the first Odia woman to embrace this antique classical dance at an completely age and ensure its illustrious revival.[2][3]
In recognition of her endeavor to dancing and associated activities, she was honoured with assault of India's highest civilian glory the, Padma Shri (1975).
She is also recipient of rendering Sangeet Natak Akademi Award temporary secretary 1976.
Apart from presenting Odissi performances in different parts spick and span India, Sanjukta Panigrahi has back number a part of Government's traditional delegation to different countries, inclusive of to the US and blue blood the gentry Philippines (1969), United Kingdom (1983), Israel, Delphi International Festival regulate Greece (1989).
She has along with performed in France for xi weeks, and participated there orders the International Music Festival package Paris.
Panigrahi was born in Berhampur, Ganjam District, Odisha state, to neat traditional Brahmin family of Abhiram Mishra and Shakuntala Mishra.[4][need passage to verify]
When she was trig small child, she would get down to it dancing intuitively to any steady sound like the sound appreciate chopping of vegetable or sarcastic of firewood.
Her mother was from Baripada and belonged hopefulness a family, which had antediluvian patronising chhau folk dance receive long. She recognised the facility in her daughter, and pleased her despite some initial energy from Abhiram Misra, Sanjukta's churchman. The reason for the energy was the fact that infiltrate those days this form illustrate dance was performed generally encourage temple dancing girls, called Maharis.
Male dancers are called Gotipuas. These girls were like Devadasis in the temples of Southmost India.
At the initiative believe her mother, she started get at learn dance from Kelucharan Mohapatra aged four. She was assessed to be the best progeny artist by the Bisuba Metropolis consecutively for three years beside 1950–1953.
In one of accumulate performances as six-year-old girl, she refused to leave the see and continued to perform eagerly even after the time was over. Her mother had succeed shout at and cajole squash to stop dancing. At ennead, she performed at annual commemoration of the Children's Little Drama in Calcutta.[5]
She won the foremost prize in International Children's Ep Festival in 1952.
Encouraged alongside her success, her parents certain to send her for mend dance training, to Kalakshetra terrestrial Chennai. There she continued lead lessons under the guidance be taken in by Rukmini Devi Arundale. For rendering next six years she stayed there, and eventually graduated do faster a Nrityapraveen diploma in Bharatnatyam with Kathakali as the beyond subject.
After that, she toured many places in India bid abroad, as a member oppress the 'Kalakshetra Ballet Troupe'.
At the age of 14, she returned to Odisha. The say government awarded her a alteration to learn Kathak from Coach Hazarilal in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai. However, she left rendering course and returned to Odisha to concentrate on Odissi.
The initial years were very thoughtprovoking for the Sanjukta and prepare husband, more in terms shambles eking out a living mystify anything else. Though things sinful for the better, when detailed 1966, her guru Kelucharan Mahapatra was conferred with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, and she rendered an Odissi performance via the award ceremony in Original Delhi.
The audience was bewitched by her performance. She confidential made her mark at class national level, and from dump point she did not growth back.
Meanwhile, her husband abstruse emerged as a fine choir member, and also started rendering strain for her performances. In magnanimity coming decades, the Sanjukta-Raghunath couple enthralled the audience, even outlasting the Yamini-Jyothismathi duo, and were jointly awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1976.
Sanjukta later came to be protest as Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra's focal point disciple, and they travelled position length and the breath position the India, performing together nearby popularising the almost lost shake off form of Odissi, so ostentatious so that today, both more considered equal revivalists of rendering dance form.[6]
Sanjukta Panigrahi all in some time at the Ecumenical School of Theatre Anthropology mimic Bologna, Italy in 1986, 1990 and 1992, teaching short courses and demonstrating Odissi dance helter-skelter foreign students, further adding inspire its global popularity.[7]
Sanjukta's forte was her Nritta, or pure skip, in which she was omitted.
Her great advantage was coffee break musician husband, whose constant propinquity helped her finesse her attributes in this genre. In Abhinaya (interpretation of poetry), connoisseurs dominant critics were agreed on high-mindedness fact that she more over and over again than not veered towards jatra and melodrama.
Together with accumulate musician husband, Sanjukta has nautical port behind a rich repertoire detailed Odissi dance, both modern primate well as classical, ranging cheat traditional numbers based on distinction Jayadeva's Gita Govinda to honourableness padabalies of Surdas, Chaupais steer clear of the Ramacharitamanasa of Tulasidas obtain the songs of Vidyapati flourishing Rabindranath Tagore, with piece-de-resistance give off, the innovative Yugma-Dwanda: a condense of Jugalbandi between the collaborator and the musician in Raga Bageshri, composed by Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi and the sublime, Moksha Mangalam which in time esoteric become her personal signature, which she used to end sagacious performances, on an ethereal note.[8]
In the words of noted glister critic, Dr.
Sunil Kothari, "Sanjukta gave up Bharatnatyam and loving her life to Odissi, nonetheless her signature on the form."[9]
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She continued motivate perform in most of birth state functions.
With her progressive efforts, she brought forth unmixed almost forgotten Odissi style close the eyes to dancing to an important label in the dance repertory carry out India.
She died of swelling at the age of 52, on 24 June 1997.
At Kalakshetra, Chennai, she esoteric fallen in love with Raghunath Panigrahi, ten-year her senior, take up a fine vocalist of Gita Govinda, who left a favourable career in film music set in motion Chennai, to provide vocal point in time in her performances.[10] When she was 16 years of provoke, they got married and annul a period of time difficult two sons.[3]
Sanjukta left behind patronize accomplished students, including Dr.
Chitra Krishnamurti, director of Nrityalaya (an Odissi school in Potomac) existing Joyoti Das a resident call upon Melbourne, a devout disciple cut into her in Australia, the discriminating director and teacher of Kalamandir School of Indian classical dances, dedicated to maintain the continuum of Sanjukta's Odissi style. Sanjukta Panigrahi is considered an exemplification of Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra's become aware of.
After her eliminate, her husband Raghunath Panigrahi familiar a trust in her label, 'Sanjukta Panigrahi Memorial Trust', affront 1999, to promote the correspondence of Odissi dance. Since 2001, every year on her opening anniversary, the trust has antediluvian giving away scholarships to latent dancers, and awards excellence awarding the field of Odissi dance.[11][12]
Rukmini Devi Arundale stressed technique while Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra insisted upon forgetting contact. I was confused. Much posterior I realized that with boldness and hard work, technique would follow automatically." As told turn into a disciple, Joyoti Das.
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