The city experienced mesmerising Odishi dance performances by Aruna Mohanty and Sharmila Biwas, who in their precise postures and accompanied by classical musicians enlivened the magnificent mythological stories of India.
The Bhubaneswar Music Circle (BMC) organised this Sunjukta Panigrahi memorial dance festival 2013 at the Rabindra Mandap here on Sunday. Since her demise in 1997, the BMC has been holding dance programmes in her memory every year. The festival started with the performance of Sharmila Biswas, “Trikayee”, three entities, i.e., dance, music and rhythm. The music composition of the performance was by Pandit Madhup Mudgal in rag Misra Khamwaz. As the trio started flowing and communicating, they spontaneously set the pace of their own.
The second performance was “Bhumisuta” by Aruna Mohanty. The performance was about the questioning of Janak Nandini Sita’s purity after her abduction by Dashanan Ravan. The raga performed was Mallika. The second presentation of Biswas started with the characterisation of Yashoda, mother of lord Krishna, as she depicted the kinship between Yashoda and her son. The music of the performance was composed by Pandit Harmohan Khuntia Among others, linguist Dr Debi Prasanna Pattnaik and BMC president Arabinda Behera and general secretary Khirod Pattnaik were present.