The Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC) of the High Commission of India, Colombo, has organised an evening of Gaudiya Nritya, a Bengali classical dance tradition by Senior Professor Mahua Mukherjee on Friday, December 13 at the SVCC auditorium, 16/2 Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7 at 6.45 p.m.
Mahua Mukherjee is an exponent, pioneer researcher who has revived the Indian classical dance form Gaudiya Nritya. She is a Senior Professor of the Department of Dance and former Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Rabindra Bharati University. Along with her husband, Amitava Mukherjee, she has been reviving the dance style through her career from the 1980s. She has also performed and given lectures as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She has also served as the Tagore Chair Professor in the University of Dhaka for two years.
Mahua Mukherjee has learnt dancing from several gurus, such as Shashi Mahato (Nachni), Narottam Sanyal (Kirtan), Padmashree Gambhir Singh Mudha (Chhow), Padma Bhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan (Abhinaya) and Guru Manabendu Bandyopadhyay (Shastra). Mukherjee is also the Founder Dance Director of the Institute Gaudiya Nritya Bharati and former Director of the Mitrayan. She has also been the subject of a poem written by Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide published in his collection “The beauty I have seen: a trilogy”.
She also features in documentary films - Dance Of God (1997), Geetamay Tanmay - Trance in Motion (2012), made by the film division of the Government of India, Resurrection (Rajya Sabha TV Channel 2013), Gaudiya Nritya - golden glory a classical dance of Bengal (SNA 2017) and many others. She has about 20 books and more than 180 articles to her credit. More than 50 students have received junior and senior scholarships and fellowships from the Government of India under her guidance.
Mahua Mukherjee will be performing: Durgamangalacharan, which is an invocatory dance, seeking blessings from Goddess Durga- Kali and Shanta Rasa, a performance on seeking peace from Lord Buddha.
All are cordially invited. For further details, contact the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre on telephone number 2684698 and email: [email protected].
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