Workshop: Body Conditioning for Dance
SEPTEMBER 05 & 06, 2024
THU & FRI AT 5 PM
TAGORE PALACE, KOLKATA
Abhipsaa - a seeking at Salt Lake City
MARCH 30, 2024
SAT AT 6 PM
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
US Tour - Fall 2023
Here is a full schedule of Bijayini Satpathy’s upcoming Fall Tour 2023 in the USA
Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Announces 2023-24 Fellows
The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, an international research institute for scholars and artists of ballet and related arts and sciences, announced four Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. The Fellowship program supports four individuals for the academic year whose projects focus on anthropology, disability arts, classical Indian dance, and performance studies. Bijayini Satpathy will receive financial support, academic resources, and space to create new work and further her research along with Aimee Meredith Cox, Jerron Herman, and André Lepecki. She joins the CBA as it enters its 10th year as a place to incubate new work, build collaborations, and develop new ideas.
Abhipsaa - a seeking at Salisbury University
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
FRI AT 7 PM
Holloway Hall Auditorium
NYC Premiere: Abhipsaa - a seeking
SEPTEMBER 21 + 22, 2023
THU + FRI AT 7PM
BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER/JEROME ROBBINS THEATER
Abhipsaa - a seeking at Penn State
OCTOBER 18+19, 2023
WED + THU AT 7.30PM
Eisenhover Auditorium, Center for the Performing Arts, PENN STATE
Purnāng
Workshop Dates: 22-30 Jan 2024
Over 9 days, Purnāng will be led by Bijayini Satpathy along with Priyadarsini Govind as a guest faculty for Abhinaya at Adishakti, Pondicherry. Participants will train in Yoga, Natyshastra Charis, Body conditioning techniques, teaching techniques and Bijayini Satpathy's Odissi pedagogy along with the language of Abhinaya, narrative dance. The dance sessions will be with live Mardala accompaniment.
Parichay
Workshop Dates: 8-16 Jan 2024
Designed as a residential workshop at Adishakti, Pondicherry, Parichay will be led by Bijayini Satpathy and her senior student Prithvi Nayak with Priyadarsini Govind as a guest faculty for Abhinaya. Over 9 days, participants will train in Yoga, Natyshastra Charis, Body conditioning techniques and Bijayini Satpathy's Odissi pedagogy along with the language of Abhinaya, narrative dance. The dance sessions will be with live Mardala accompaniment.
Digital Premiere: Bijayini Satpathy's Dohā
In her fifth and final performance as 2021-2022 MetLiveArts Artist in Residence, the incomparable choreographer and dancer Bijayini Satpathy built on her prior explorations of movement and art with an evening-length performance for the stage of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The new work, entitled “Dohā,” navigates the relationship between prayer and play, moving away from the Odissi dance form’s customary theistic depictions to highlight the bhāva—emotional experience—of prayer as an embodied human act. Within the discipline of ritualized prayer, Satpathy embraces play and playfulness as an essential part of the individual’s search for the divine.
Digital Premiere: Bijayini Satpathy in the Galleries
MetLiveArts 2021-22 Artist in Residence Bijayini Satpathy's performances were inspired by—and took place in—various galleries around The Met, engaging with each site’s architecture as well as its ancestry, stories, legends, and aesthetics that are so different from Odissi’s. For these site-specific creations, Satpathy collaborated with composer Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy, who has moved the soundscape away from traditional Odissi music and into unconventional spaces. Now, MetLiveArts looks back on the groundbreaking works that Satpathy and Narayanaswamy created for The Met's galleries with high-quality videos of Satpathy's dynamic performances.
Bijayini Satpathy and Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy in Conversation
Bijayini Satpathy and Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy come together for a special Zoom conversation about their ongoing partnership, presenting a behind-the-scenes look at the process that brought their collaborations to The Met. Grab a cup of coffee and join us for this discussion, moderated by Limor Tomer, The Met's Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang General Manager for Live Arts.
Digital Retrospective: Bijayini Satpathy
As a part of The Met's celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, MetLiveArts looks back on the groundbreaking works that Bijayini Satpathy created as Artist in Residence. Stay tuned over the course of May for high-quality videos of Satpathy's dynamic performances, and be sure to join Satpathy and composer Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy for a discussion of their collaboration and process, moderated by Limor Tomer, The Met's Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang General Manager for Live Arts.
Abhipsaa - a seeking
May 12, 13 & 14
Venue: Esplanade Theatre Studio
"ABHIPSAA — a seeking" charts a journey of discovery in physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. In four choreographic works Satpathy expands the parameters of the formal and representational norms of the Odissi tradition through both narrative and non-narrative dances - reimagining classical Odissi forms through a personalised interpretation.