Art Vision has organized the 7th Sangam Festival on the 24th of August 2011. This year the new production presented by Art Vision performing unit was “Mana Bhanjana’ an Odissi dance-drama based on the original script by Babaji Vaishnav Charan Das and Mohan Sunder Dev Goswami. The story of the offended Radha, seductive Chandrabali and repentant Krishna, who undergoes different disguises in order to win back Radha’s trust, is a classic belonging to the preliminary stage of the Odissi revival. The present choreography is by Ileana Citaristi, music by Laxmikanta Palit and rhythm by Sachidananda Das.
The guest troupe was the Kathak group from Padatik Dance Centre, Kolkata who presented “Jhalkiyan’. The production covered the vast gamut of the elements of Kathak Dance. Choreography by Chetna Jalan and music by Vijay Shankar.