Celebrations marking fifty years of an art Institution, can take on many hues. Apart from marking a milestone, it can be a time for stock taking, for renewing pledges and also reveling in still retaining a place in a fast-moving world with a penchant for splashes of brilliance rather than longevity. What one saw in Subarnima of Orissa Dance Academy, an institution with a hyper active calendar of events, established in 1975 by the enterprising Guru, late Gangadhar Pradhan and now managed by his top disciple Aruna Mohanty, was a thoughtfully designed umbrella of items, encapsulating a salutation to the artistry, of all the great Gurus of Odissi - but for whose Herculean efforts, present day Odissi could not have boasted of such a large presence in the prevailing dance scenario of India. All credit to Aruna Mohanty, Creative Director cum Secretary of Orissa Dance Academy, who by laying stress on the contribution of the entire family of teachers, has subsumed the invariable contradictions existing between and amongst different Paramparas. By this one act of unifying the entire Odissi brigade with so much grace, the three day Subarnima event (June 22 to 24, 2026 at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar), acquired a special texture of togetherness and bonhomie.
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