HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, June 28: As part of the ‘Sanskriti Yatra’, a Governor of Assam-sponsored cultural education programme organised by SPIC MACAY (Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst the Youth), Dibrugarh chapter, noted international Odissi danseuse Lipsa Satapathy demonstrated a classical Odissi dance performance in Sivasagar Fuleswari Girls’ HS School auditorium on Friday. SPIC MACAY has been organising the programme in various schools of six Upper Assam districts: Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Charaideo, Majuli, and Jorhat. The Odissi danseuse demonstrated her skill before an august gathering of students, teachers, and guardians through an impressive lecture on the background of the dance form, its techniques, abstract syllables, mudras, and the different stages the artists must learn about. She said that there are three distinct parts of a dance sequel – the Nrit (technical part of the body language, mudras), Nritya (Nrit the emotions), and Nat (the story or the spoken part). Every dance sequence begins with Bhumi pujan, she added.
