On July 21 2024, Mayur came together to support and celebrate as Oishee Sanyal Ghosh completed her Odissi Mancha Pravesh, marking the culmination of basic training in Odissi dance.
Oishee Sanyal Ghosh has been training in Odissi at Mayur Dance Academy under the tutelage of Smt. Sukanya Mukherji and Ms. Mishka Shreya Mukherji.
Since the age of six, she has been an integral part of Ta Thoi, a non profit dance organization in the DMV area.
At Mayur, Oishee has not only honed her Odissi skills but has also taken on roles as a camp counselor, teacher, and performer.
Oishee graduated from Walt Whitman High School in May 2024 , and is heading to the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2024, majoring in Computational Biology.
On July 13 2024, Mayur came together to support and cheer as Srijani Chakraborty completed her Odissi Mancha Pravesh, marking the culmination of basic training in Odissi dance.
Srijani Chakraborty has been training in Odissi for the past 15 years at Mayur Dance Academy under the tutelage of Smt. Sukanya Mukherji and Ms. Mishka Shreya Mukherji
With Mayur, she has peformed at the Borderlight Fringe Festival in Cleveland, Ohio; the Bangladesh Embassy; and the Kennedy Center.
For the past 2 years, she has been choreographing and teaching Odissi to younger students for Mayur summer camps and regular classes.
Srijani graduated from Montgomery Blair HS in May 2024 and will be studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Our students are excited for another opportunity to learn from the amazing creative talent Raka Maitra, founder and artistic director of Chowk Productions in Singapore. For our thirtieth anniversary in 2023, we were fortunate to have her choreograph and teach a segment of our show Isaya, and she returns this year with another original piece to share with us.
photo: Tan Ngiap Heng
Maitra is a dynamic performer and choreographer, with many well-received performances to her name. She has drawn on the traditions of Odissi and Chhau to develop her own contemporary dance language and created a significant body of original work that is thematically and visually diverse yet always bears her style.
She established her company Chowk in Singapore with a bold voice and a keen sense of origin and place. Her work has been commissioned by and presented at Singapore’s Esplanade, Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan, Melkweg in Amsterdam, Les Hivernales in Avignon, Tasmania, 10 days in the island at Tasmania, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., among other venues.
Starting in the middle of June, Maitra will be working with students daily to convey an excerpt of her cerebral original work Pallavi in Time, which combines her strong interest in Odissi vocabulary with her one-of-a-kind contemporary vision.
Students will glimpse this unique perspective and discover new layers to the movements they have been studying for years, while remaining immersed in the foundations of our primary classical discipline here at Mayur. We are proud to be able to provide this occasion for learning and exchanging ideas, and honored to be working with Maitra again!
Come see the result at our June 29th, 2024 production: Trini Sutra
