Rudrakshya 2025
NINAAD: THE DIVINE SOUND OF DANCING BELLS
Artists:
Samir Kumar Panigrahi, Santosh Ram, Roji Swain, and Debashree Patnaik are award-winning principal dancers with the Bhubaneswar-based disciples of Guru Shree Bichitrananda Swain, founder-director of Rudrakshya Foundation. The troupe is also accompanied by Rohita Pradhan, the lighting designer, award-winning Mardala player, director and administrator of the Rudrakshya Foundation.
Date: Saturday, May 17th, 7:30-9pm, 2025
Venue: Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA 94607
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Date: Saturday, May 24th, 7:30-9pm, 2025
Venue: MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
514 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
The founder and artistic director of Rudrakshya, Guru Shree Bichitrananda Swain,
has achieved worldwide recognition as an outstanding performer, brilliant choreographer, and an exceptional teacher. Widely acclaimed as one of today’s prominent choreographers of Odissi, he is known for his distinctive body of work that echoes his knowledge and understanding of dance as a medium of expression, and for having unleashed a wave of renewed dynamism in the presentation of Odissi.
Rudrakshya Foundation, which was founded in the year 2000, has emerged as one of the most successful training centers for aspiring dancers from India and abroad. Some of his students who lack the financial means to pursue dance as a profession are provided with free education, food, and lodging for as long as they wish to be in his gurukul-like institution.
Guru Swain and his students have performed in major cities across the world, including the US, UK, Canada, China, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, South Korea, South Africa, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria.
