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- Title
Collaborating on Odissi.
- Authors
Schechner, Richard; Zarrilli, Phillip
- Abstract
This article presents an interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi, Kelucharan Mahapatra, and Raghunath Panigrahi, experts on the classical Indian dance style known as Odissi. The dance style of which Sanjukta Panigrahi and her teacher-partner Kelucharan Mahapatra are masters has roots deep in the historical traditions of Eastern India. Its place is Orissa, a province facing the Bay of Bengal south of Calcutta. Odissi dance has not had a smooth, unchanging history for the last 2,200 years. Much of its development is sketchy or unknown. And its story in the 20th century is full of the same kind of swift and deep changes that mark what's happened to other Indian classical dances such as bharatanatyam. According to Sanjukta Panigrahi, in earlier days when a husband wanted his wife, he would call her in the way of the odissi dance. But when a young woman called a man, she could never use this gesture. In earlier days, by asking his wife to sit on his lap a man showed her respect because this is a special place which he cannot offer to anybody else. Nowadays, younger people think that girls and boys are all on the same level, that women should act like men and do all the things men do. Panigrahi says that in their tradition they have some things that are not accepted, things that don't look nice to the eyes.
- Subjects
PANIGRAHI, Sanjukta; MAHAPATRA, Kelucharan; PANIGRAHI, Raghunath; ODISSI dance; INDIC dance
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 1988, Vol 32, Issue 1, p128
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.2307/1145874