Ileana Citaristi & Group Bhubaneswar. A rt Vision was founded in the year 1996 by Dr.Ileana Citaristi along with a group of artists be...
Ileana Citaristi & Group
Bhubaneswar.
Art Vision was founded in the year 1996 by Dr.Ileana Citaristi along with a group of artists belonging to different disciplines such as dance, music, painting and literature who wanted to have a common group for sharing experiences and creative ideas. The repertoire of the troupe consists of original compositions and dance-dramas choreographed by Dr.Ileana Citaristi, who is a senior disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She is recipient of many awards, among which the National Award fir Best Choreography (1996) and the Padmashree award (2006) conferred on her by the Government of India, for her contribution to Odissi Dance.
SHIVASTHAKAM
The programme opens with ‘Mangala charana’. The dancers pay homage to Lord Shiva, the Creator and Destroyer, from whose hair the river Ganga is flowing, whose body is adorned with snakes and skulls and whose wife is goddess Parvati. Kaala-Timebound: A dance production on Time. It travels through different phases. From the latent aspect of the unmanifested Time (’hrdya) to the first pulsation (spandan) or primary element to organic life (Time as creator). For men to comprehend the movements of Time a Language of geometry emeges: linear lines concentric circles, cones, squares and triangles. Time devours what he himself has created in an eternal cycle of creation and destruction (Kaala-chakra). The aspiration of man is to reach a state of transience, to reach a state of timelessness, to live in a perennial now. The image of the swan who finds its eternal home in the celestial lake, tempted no more to fly off elsewhere.
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