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Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival 2018 ceremony will be held from 5th to 9th September.
The Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival 2018 ceremony will be held from 5th to 9th September at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar. On the concluding day, noted bollywood personality Hema Malini will grace the event. Entering its 24th year, the festival is attended by artistes of national and international repute, foreign tourists, critics and connoisseurs alike.
Starting with a single-day festival in 1995, the Award Festival has now grown into a five-day celebration of performances featuring four classical music & four classical dance performances. The aim is to give Odisha audience an exposure to classical fare.
The ‘NALCO Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award’ is presented on an annual basis in the field of Dance, Music, Theatre & Cinema to exceptional individuals with a cash prize of Rs. 1,00,000/- to each artiste and a citation. Two such awards are presented each year.
Additionally, the NALCO Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Yuva Prativa Sammanis presented with a cash prize of Rs. 25,000/- each to four meritorious young artistes in the area of classical dances and Odissi music for their continuous outstanding performances.
The NALCO Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award 2018 will be presented to Guru Lingaraj Behera, in the field of Odissi dance and Dr.Satchi Das in the field of theatre.
The NALCO Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Yuva PrativaSamman 2018 will be presented to Sonali Mohapatra and Subikash Mukherjee for Odissi dance, Swati Sinha for Kathak and Rohan Suresh Dahale for Odissi Mardala.
After the GKCM Award presentation on 9th September,two new dance compositions will be showcased by Srjan –the first one is “Kirvani Madhurima”, a neo-classical innovation and an amalgam of traditional Odissi with contemporary music based on Raga Kirwani and the second is “Maati”,a presentation in Odissi dance derived from an inspiring and popular poem by the iconic Odia poet Sri Radha Mohan Gadanayak.
The dance choreography for both the items have been done by Ratikant Mohapatra. The music composition composition for Kirwani Madhurima is by Dr. Vizarsu Balasubramanium and script by Pt. Nityananda Misra. The music composition for “Maati” is by Laxmikant Palit and the script adaptation is by Jaydev Das.
