‘Artistes should Create and Cultivate Newer Spaces for the Art Forms to Grow.’
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– A Vlog Post by DR. ANWESA MAHANTA
[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Dr. Anwesa Mahanta is an internationally acclaimed exponent of the Sattriya dance, and a prolific performer at prestigious dance festivals globally. A winner of the Government of India’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar and several other prominent awards, Dr. Anwesa is also a recipient of the coveted “Charles Wallace Fellowship” from Charles Wallace India Trust and British Council. She has also received Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Yuva Award (2019), Bharat Kala Ratna (2018), Unique You Award for International Women’s Day (2017), Sankaradeva Yuva Nritya Samman ( 2015) for her contributions in the field.
Dr. Anwesa is an ‘A’ Grade Artist of the National Broadcasting Channel of India, Doordarshan; and an Empaneled Artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). She is Head of ‘Kalpavriksha’ – an Institute of Holistic learning of Sattriya Dance; and Artistic Director of Kalpa, A Society for Promotion of Literature, Art, Culture and Social Harmony and the Pragjyoti International Dance Festival.
She has also been conducting workshops and also presented scholarly research papers in various prestigious symposiums and conferences of the country and outside sharing the aesthetics and poetics of Sattriya Dance, Music Theatre and Allied traditions and has several research publications to her credit. She was a Visiting Artist in Residence in IIT Guwahati teaching the students about Dance Aesthetics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]
ACCESS THE VLOG POST BY DR. ANWESA MAHANTA
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