Suprava Mishra, a well-known Odissi dancer, a guru, a choreographer and a writer, has been honoured with the Gujarat Gaurav Puraskar by the Gujarat Sangeet Natak Academy.
Since 1992, Suprava has been working hard for popularising Odissi in the western part of India in general and Gujarat in particular. She has been giving lecture-demonstrations on Odissi dance in schools, colleges and other organisations in Gujarat.
Till date, she has given over 200 demos.
Suprava is the founder-director of the Aum Arts Dance Academy and has given training to more than 300 students, some of whom have got the degrees of Visharad and Alankar in Odissi dance from the Akhil Bhartiya Gandharva Mahavidyalay Mandal, Miraj (Maharashtra).
Suprava, an engineer by profession and working with the BSNl, was born in Cuttack in 1968. She has got master degrees in three different subjects, MSc (Physics), MBA (Marketing) and Alankar in Odissi dance.
At the age of six years, she took initial training in Odissi dance from Gurus Raghunath Dutta and Harihar Mohenty and advance training from Gurus Kelucharan Mohapatra and Sudhaker Sahu. Suprava has written two books in Hindi Bhartiya Nrutya (2004) and Odissi Nrutya Aur Bhartiya Sanscruti (2012).