like every year, the 8th Guru Debaprasad award will be conferred on four distinguished personalities in the filed of Indian classical dance during a three-day Guru Debaprasad Award festival to be held at the Rabindra Mandap here from Sunday.
This year, the four danseuses include Guru Bijayalaxmi Mohanty (Odishi),Pandit Jayant Kastuar (Kathak) Padmashree Guru Jatin Goswami (Sastriya) and Guru Manju Barggavee (Kuchipudi), who will be given the award on the valedictory day, informed Tridhara Director Gajendra Kumar Panda at a press meet here on Saturday.
The award, mounted by Tridhara, an academy of Odishi, folk, tribal dance and music, carries a cash award of `25,000, a memento and Angabastra, each.
Besides, several solo and group presentations on Odishi, Kathak, Kuchipudi and Sastriya dance forms along with flute and Hindustani vocal recitals will be staged during the event.
Culture Minister Ashok Chandra Panda, Excise Minister Damodar Rout, Mass Education Minister Debiprasad Mishra and Textile Minister Snehangini Chhuria, among others are scheduled to attend the festival.