The Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award 2017 will be presented to two eminent personalities, Guru Dhruba Charan Biswal in the field of dance and Shyamamani Devi in the field of music. Similarly, the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Yuva Pratibha Samman 2017 will be presented to lingaraj Pradhan(Bhubaneswar) and Namrata Mehta (Mumbai) for Odishi dance, Jyotsna Jagannathan (Bangalore) for Bharatanatyam and Jateen Kumar Sahoo (Mumbai) for Odishi music.
The awards will be presented during the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra
Award Festival ceremony which is scheduled to be held from September 5to 9 here at the Rabindra Mandap. Renowned artistes from inside and outside the State will be performing in the festival. There will be a special presentation by Srjan – “Mahanayaka Bijayananda”, a thematic presentation in Odishi dance of the life and work of Biju Patnaik. This is an audio visual production and the dance choreography has been done by Ratikant Mohapatra. The music is by laxmikant Palit, script by Jaydev Das and lyrics by Nityananda Misra.