page_title: Surendra Nath Jena
section_title: Awards and Achievementss
hierarchical_section_title: Surendra Nath Jena / Awards and Achievementss
caption_attribution_description: English: Guru Surendra Nath Jena getting Sangeet Natak Academi Award from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (President of India)
context_page_description: Surendra Nath Jena created an entirely new Odissi dance style with an oeuvre of many compositions. This dance style incorporates the various aspects of Indian culture, such as temple sculpture, ancient dance, Sanskrit and vernacular literature, yoga, traditional painting, manuscripts, and philosophy.
  The entire music and dance choreography of these compositions were by Jena himself.
context_section_description: In the 1970s he went to U.S.A three times to teach Odissi in workshops, on the private invitation and from the Naropa Institute of United States.
  He received Fellowship from Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India from 1981–82.
  He wrote the book 'Atman-Odissi Nritya Puran' in Oriya poetry about the history, technique, and aesthetics of Odissi from 1991–93.
  Video documentation of his dance composition was done by Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1994.
  The Roehampton University of London made a Documentary Film on Jena's style, titled "Performing Konark, Performing Hirapur" by Dr. Alessandra Lopez y Royo in the year 2005–06.
  He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award from President of India Abdul Kalam in the year 2007, for his contributions to Odissi.
caption: Surendra Nath Jena getting Sangeet Natak Academi Award from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (President of India)
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