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BHUBANESWAR: The Guru Durga Charan Ranbir Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred on Odissi dancer Ranjana Gauhar at the concluding evening of 3rd Meera Festival of Dances on Tuesday. Bharatanatyam ...

Raut began to teach Odissi alongside the form’s foremost name, Kelucharan Mohapatra. Sometime later, Raut and a few others formed Jaynatika, an organisation that worked on the need to standardise the ...

After mastering the Natya Sastra and Abhinaya Darpana, he introduced the Mudra Viniyoga in Odissi in 1955. He also introduced the Sanchari Bhava into Odissi abhinaya pieces, thus playing an important ...

He also helped establish the Jayantika Association in 1959 to structure Odissi with classical frameworks, introducing ‘Sanchari Bhava’, ‘Mudra Viniyoga’, and ‘Rasa Theory’. From 1970 to 1995, he led ...

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Raut is credited to have introduced ‘Sanchari Bhava’, ‘Mudra Viniyoga’, and ‘Rasa Theory’ in the study of Odissi. He was also the first guru to choreograph “Gitagovinda Ashtapadis” with ‘Shringara ...

Raut is credited to have introduced 'Sanchari Bhava', 'Mudra Viniyoga', and 'Rasa Theory' in the study of Odissi. From 1970 to 1995, Raut headed the Odissi department at Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra.

The Padma Shri awardee, born on July 6, 1933 in Odisha, is considered the "Father of Odissi dance", having steered the revival of Odissi in 1950s with Shastra-based knowledge.

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Odissi Guru Mayadhar Raut breathed his last at his Delhi residence on Saturday morning. He was 95. “He had breakfast this morning, surrounded by his grandchildren and the rest ...