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Dipanwita
Roy is an eminent Odissi Dancer and a disciple of the great
Odissi Gurus Padmavibhushan Late Shri Kelucharan Mahapatra and Padmashree
Late Shrimati Sanjukta Panigrahi. She has performed at major cultural
centres in India and has extensively toured U.S.A., U.K., France, Germany, Sweden,
Denmark, and Italy where she undertook performances, workshops, and
demonstrations.
Dipanwita is an “A” grade National Artiste of television in India. In
1996, under a scholarship from the British Council Division at Calcutta,
she attended the International Summer School at the prestigious “Laban
Centre for Movement and Dance”, London, where she studied Pilates body
conditioning exercise, choreography and functional anatomy. In 1997,
Dipanwita had worked for a documentary film “YET TO SPROUT” on
destitute children of India, and in 2004 “GATEWAY TO HEAVEN” on the
Jagannath Temple, Puri (Orissa).
She holds a distinction for senior diploma in Odissi from “Prayag
Sangeet Samiti”, Allahabad, and has been awarded the title
“Singarmani” by Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai (1986). Also got "Bharat Nirman
Award" by the Bharat Nirman Award Committee (2009)
Dipanwita’s sensitive rendering of dramatic expressions combine with
impeccable coordination of body movements blend to make her a dancer of
considerable talent. Apart from being a dancer, Dipanwita is also a
painter, which had assisted in her interpretation of the sculptural poses
of the Odissi dance.
Since 1984 she is holding a school of Odissi dance, “SHIBARANJANI”.
She has taught nuances of Odissi to many local and foreign students, some
of who have performed at prestigious programmes in India and abroad.
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