Odissi Dancer Vani Madhav Exclusive Interview Part 01 👉 Indian Classical Dance
Channel: Raaggiri
Date: 2022-05-27

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Watch an exclusive interview of Odissi dancer Vani Mashav.  Vani Madhav is an Odissi Dance Exponent, she is a founder director of Nritya Dhara. She is also a Culture -Head of ASSOCHAM Women's Forum. NRITYA DHARA is a voluntary cultural organization working for the propogation of Indian Art & Culture since 2011 based in Gurugram. A prominent Odissi Exponent conducting Odissi Dance Classes for more than 15 years and is an empaneled artiste of Doordarshan, ICCR and Festival of India- abroad and also a Senior Fellow from Ministry of Culture, Govt.of India. 


----------- Table of Content ---------- 
00:05 - Introduction of Odissi dancer Vani Madhav By Shivendra Kumar Singh 
03:55 - How did you take your first steps in the world of dance?
05:30 - Your mother was a very good Veena player, so why was your name Vani?
06:30 - Your mother was a Veena player, were other people in the family also involved in music or did you enter the dance world only after seeing your mother?
07:25 - Vani Madhav talking About her guru Gajendra Panda 
09:50 - Odissi dancer Vani Madhav talking about her second guru Sudhakar Sahu 
11:25 - Even today in India it is not easy to think about making a profession on dance, you also advocated but when did you decide that you now want to do dance only.
13:50 - Have you ever faced challenges in this dance practice?

---------- What is Odissi Dance ------------
Odissi is traditionally a dance-drama genre of performance art, where the artist(s) and musicians play out a story, a spiritual message or devotional poem from the Hindu texts, using symbolic costumes, body movement, abhinaya (expressions) and mudras (gestures and sign language) set out in ancient Sanskrit literature. Classical Odia literature & the Gitagovinda set to traditional Odissi music are used for the abhinaya. Odissi is learnt and performed as a composite of basic dance motif called the Bhangas (symmetric body bends, stance). It involves lower (footwork), mid (torso) and upper (hand and head) as three sources of perfecting expression and audience engagement with geometric symmetry and rhythmic musical resonance. An Odissi performance repertoire includes invocation, nritta (pure dance), nritya (expressive dance), natya (dance drama) and moksha (dance climax connoting freedom of the soul and spiritual release).


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