Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra is one of the greatest exponents of the classical dance form of Odissi. Like most highly evolved forms of art, Odissi dance draws from the energy of sculpture, painting, literature and its precedent dance forms. Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was born in 1926 in Raghurajpur, a village in Orissa. He has dedicated his life to refining the dance form by chiselling out an elegant structural niche for it - in all that is sacred in art. Through a series of performances, poetry and excerpts fr
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