Bio
I’m an experienced professional based in New Delhi. My work is focused on producing quality results and making a significant impact. I’m always happy to apply the experience and skills I’ve obtained throughout my life and career to an interesting project, especially one that involves creative and innovative thinking.
A BRIEF PROFILE
Kasturi Pattanaik is a performer, composer, teacher, and choreographer of Odissi. She is well-acclaimed as a seniormost exponent of Odissi dance form. She is both a soloist and group performer, focusing on Odissi dance drama, which blends the classical and folk traditions of Odisha, Indian mythology, and historical and social issues.
CHOREOGRAPHIES / PRODUCTIONS
Kasturi Pattanaik’s choreographies and productions have been superbly acclaimed and received artistic accolades for artistic ingenuity. What has been remarkable and distinguishing, is that through her new creations in Odissi dance, she has introduced new concepts, objectives, themes, identities, values, meanings, movements and practices in the existing five sequential repertory of Odissi dance as well as in dance dramas in Odissi dance style. Her new creations-choreographies and productions have further enlarged and deepened the classical canvas and cultural rooting of Odissi dance; considerably enhancing its artistic evolutionary essence in the contemporary settings.
"Art is a cosmic whole. It's beauty lies in cultural integrity that has passed down through generations and it's our duty to pass on to the next generation."
