ORISSA DANCE ACADEMY

Bhubaneswar

 
   

Founder Director : Guru Gangadhar Pradhan

   
  • Patron : D S Champati
  • President : Barendra Krishna Dhal
  • Vice President : Chittaranjan Mallia
  • Secretary : Aruna Mohanty
  • Principal : Guru Bichitrananda Swain
  • Chief Co-ordinator : Basant Kumar Das
  • Office Secretary : Pramod Kumar Rout
 

Established in 1975 in the temple city of Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dance Academy conducts sustained training classes both for Indian and foreign students in its premises. Apart from composing new choreographies, dance dramas and ballets based on odissi dance, folk dance forms of the region are also composed in Orissa Dance Academy under the inspiring guidance of Guru Gangadhar Pradhan who is a teacher, performer, choreographer and mardal player of high calibre. Innumerable performances by the reportoire of the academy regaled the national and international audience stretching from remote villages of Orissa to glamourous capital cities of the world.

  Staff Members :
  • Guru : Guru Banamali Maharana
  • Vocalist : Guru Ghanashyam Panda
  • Music Co-ordinator : Guru Ramakrishna
  • Violinist : Niranjan Biswal
  • Mardal Player : Dhaneswar Swain
  • Violinist : Ramesh Chandra Das
  • Singer : Mahapatra Minati Bhanja
  • Sitarist : Jyoti Misra
  • Vocalist : Bijaya Kumar Jena
  • Mardal Player : Nijaya Kumar Barik
  • Singer : Harapriya Swain
  • Flutist : Abhiram Nanda