From: atul@CS.CMU.EDU (Atul Sudhalkar)
Subject: Odissi dance performance
Originator: atul@ITAIPU.EDRC.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:54:28 GMT



SHARON LOWEN

presents

ODISSI
The classical dance of eastern India

with

Rakhal Mohanty (vocal)
Gangadhar Pradhan (pakhawaj)
Y. Rama Rao (violin)

Tuesday, October 13, 1992, 8:00pm
Stephen Foster Memorial Theater,
(Near the Cathedral of Learning),
Univ. of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

Sponsored by:
The Center for the Performing Arts of India,
Asian Studies Program and Dept. of Theater Arts of the Univ. of Pittsburgh.

For more information call: (412) 963-8023, (412) 648-8582, (412) 648-7370

Ticket information:
Reserved seats (Orchestra): $8/person
Unreserved seats (Balcony): $5/person

To order tickets by mail, write to
   Dr. B.N. Dixit,
   608 Ravencrest Road,
   Pittsburgh, PA 15215,

clearly giving:
	1.  Your name, address, and phone number.
	2.  The number and type of tickets you want.
	3.  The exact payment, in the form of a check or M.O., PAYABLE
	    TO "University of Pittsburgh".

Please note that (1) children under ten years of age are not
permitted, and (2) audio/video recording during the performance is not
permitted.

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			SHARON LOWEN
    (from the information brochure prepared by the organisers)

Sharon Lowen is a renowned artiste of Odissi, one of the major
classical dance forms of India.  She is admired by critics and
connoisseurs for her perfection of style, grace, and superb abhinaya.
Her performances are spiritually rich and of high aesthetic order.

Sharon has been receiving her training in Odissi for the past 17 years
from none other than Padmabhushan Kelucharan Mohapatra, the undisputed
master and architect of the contemporary Odissi repertoire.  Sharon
has bridged cultures performing extensively throughout India and the
United States on several occasions during the past fifteen years.  She
was the only foreign-born performer to be sent by the Indian Council
for Cultural Relations in 1985 to represent Indian Dance in the
Festival of India in the USA.

Sharon has received many honors and awards, including the Govt. of
India's Acharya Narendra Dev Samajik Sanman presented by the Prime
Minister of India, Singar Mani from Sur Singar Samsad, the Bharat
Nirman Award for the role of women in nation building for her work in
the field of Arts and Dance, and Outstanding Young Person of 1988 by
the Hyderabad Jaycees.

Besides performing throughout India and in major festivals, Sharon has
also choreographed in films and television.  She was featured in 1988
in the award winning Telugu film, Swarna Kamalam (Golden Lotus) in her
real life role as an American born dancer who inspires the heroine to
value her own tradition.

A Fulbright and American Institute of Indian Studies Smithsonian
scholar with M.A. in Dance and Fine Arts from the University of
Michigan, Sharon has taught and presented numerous workshops on Indian
Dance at colleges and universities during her previous visits to the
USA.  Currently she is a Visiting Professor in visual and performing
arts at the Central University in Hyderabad (India) and is a
co-director of the Trinetra Center for the Performing Arts which
maintains a school that promotes the dances of Eastern India.  Under a
Senior Faculty  Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian
Studies, Sharon has researched and published a recent work, "Shastric
Tradition in the Contemporary Dance of  Orissa".  In addition to
Odissi, Sharon has taken extensive training in Manipuri and Chhau, the
other two dance forms of  Eastern India.

This will be her third performance tour of the USA.  On this tour she
will be accompanied by three well-known musicians from India: Rakhal
Mohanty (vocal), Gangadhar Pradhan (pakhawaj) and Y. Rama Rao
(violin).