After two days of breathtaking dance performances, the National Festival of Mayurbhanj Chhau ‘Naatki’ has concluded. The pageant included artists from Mayurbhanj Chhau performing unit of Project Chhauni who carried out in numerous inventive productions choreographed by Vidushi Sharma Bhate from Pune and Padmasree Dr Ileana Citarist from Bhubaneswar alongside Nichuapada Uttarsahi Chhau Nritya Pratisthan of Moroda Block. The choreography mixed components from up to date and conventional points of the Mayurbhanj Chhau dance.

On the pageant’s final day, three performances passed off ‘Panchabhoota’, ‘Yodhha’, and ‘The Mystical Forest’. Talking to ANI concerning the motivation behind ‘The Mystical Forest’, dancer Mahi Sharma from Delhi mentioned, “Our choreography which was conducted by our guru Santosh Nair, was motivated by nature. Taking care of our environment is quintessential in keeping our livelihood safe. If we don’t take care of our environment, gradually our forests would start depleting and the natural resources important for humans would become lost. Our dance aimed to spread the message of forest conservation among people”.

The pageant was performed by Chhauni as a method of serving to the ‘Chhau’ dance of Odisha get some publicity and recognition among the many lots. Chhauni was an initiative led by the Mayurbhanj District Administration. It started operations in 2016 “to preserve and promote the art form and provide a livelihood to the artistes.”

Chhauni had performed a survey in Mayurbhanj which lined 202 social organisations and 11,738 individuals who have been related to the dance kind. After auditioning greater than 400 Artists the performing unit was created in 2017. In a dialog with ANI, Praveen Chandra Bhanjdeo, the Maharaja of Mayurbhanj threw some mild concerning the origin of the initiative.

“In 2016, Mayurbhanj’s ex-collector Shri Rajesh Patil guided the project Chhauni after years of the dance form’s old Gurus being neglected….he picked up all the young artists along with Shubhoshree Mukherjee who herself was a dancer and had done Chhau,” he mentioned. “‘Naatki’ is the first National event for the Chhau dance, which showcases the dance form in a modern way,” he added. (ANI)

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