EVENTS FOR THE YEAR 2008

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I have a dream

Art Vision  performed in "I have a dream" (March 14 - 18, 2008 Palermo, Italy) on 14th to the 18th of March at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, there was six representations of 'I have a dream' - a mega production under the direction of Beppe Menegatti. The ballet was dedicated to the memory of those people in the history of human mankind who have dedicated their lives to the uplift and betterment of social injustices, such as Martin Luther King, Don Lortenzo, Ernesto Che Guevara, Mother Theresa, Aung San Sui Kyi, the mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Jan Palach.

It was an ode to universal peace which sees the participation of an international cast of dancers from different part of the world. A group of Odissi dancers from Art Vision, Bhubaneswar, under the direction and choreography of Dr. Ileana Citaristi, had taken part in the segment dedicated to Mother Theresa of Kolkata which has as main protagonist Carla Fracci, the legendary Italian prima ballerina now in her sixties. The music for this segment was by Pandit Ravi Shankar.
 

6th Kalinga Mahotsav

Art Vision, in collaboration with Tourism Dept. and Nalco, had organized the 6th kalinga mahotsav, a festival of Martial dances, at Dheuli stupa, Bhubaneswar, on the 23rd and 24th of Feb. 2008. The program of the festival was as follows:......

Exploration Dance Festival

Art Vision, directed by Padmashree Dr. Ileana Citaristi, presented Exploration…in Odissi style. It was a 2 days festival of Odissi choreographies at Triveni Auditorium, New Delhi on 24th and 25th of January at 7 P.M.

Remembering Guruji

Date: 7th April, 2008
Venue: Utkal sangeet Mahavidyaly Auditorium, Bhubaneswar

To commemorate the fourth death anniversary of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, Art Vision organised a dance program where some of his senior students residing in Orissa presented few of his classic compositions, The dancers who participated were Meera Das and Mukti Lata Pal who have received training under him in the Odissi Research Center, Itishri Dwibedi, Pranati Mohanty and Ileana Citaristi who learnt from him in his residence at Cuttack in the early eighties and Nandini Gosal who had her training at Padatik Dance Center in Kolkatta. The dance presentation was preceded by the projection of a documentary on Guruji’s life shot by Priya Nair and produced by Cinema Vision India.

Date: 12th Sept,
2008 Venue- Rabindra Mandap,BBSR

On the 12th of September Art Vision presented the 4th dance festival called SANGAM, A CONFLUENCE OF DANCE. The festival has been conceived as an offering of new and exclusive choreographic compositions in two different dance styles. Every year two styles of dance come together on the same platform to showcase recent and innovative works. While Odissi is a constant factor, the other classical style varies every year. This year besides Odissi presented by Art Vision, the festival showcased Manipuri dance by Anjika troupe, directed by renown dancer and choreographer Priti Patel.
 

Art Vision, founded in the year 1996 by Padmashree Dr.Ileana Citaristi along with a group of artists belonging to different disciplines such as dance, music, painting and literature, has already organized several events which reflects its multidisciplinary nature. Among these is the Kalinga Mahotsav, a National Festival of Martial Arts, organized in collaboration with Orissa Tourism at Dheuli Stupa, since 2003. The performing unit of Art Vision has already presented dance performances in many prestigious festivals and conferences in India and abroad. The repertoire of the troupe consists of original compositions and dance-dramas choreographed by Dr Ileana Citaristi, who is a senior disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.

Anjika was founded by Priti Patel in Kolkata to impart training and expertise in the Manipuri dance form as a school, has dual curriculum: it is a school for Manipuri dance and is also a school for Movement Therapy for children suffering from cerebral palsy. Anjika has performed in several prestigious dance shows all over the world and has won a number of laurels and accolades for itself. Priti Patel, has herself, received innumerable awards in appreciation of her work and excellence in this dance form.

The program presented this year by Art Vision included among others, a specially choreographed item titled “Mahanadi…and the river flows”, an ode to the great river, cradle of Orissa culture.

The production presented by Anjika is “Malem-Prithvi”, an ode to Mother Earth and its beautiful creation. In this work Priti Patel used extensively movements of the martial art of Manipuri, Thang-Ta along with the classical movements of the Manipuri dance style.

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