After a long hiatus & break from Odissi, I found some time to show some love to this website. As you all can guess we run wonderful drupal to power this site. I upgraded to Drupal 6.2 & as a result things could have been broken. Please let me know if u see anything.

Folks, We are looking for some motivated voluteers to help us keep this site as interactive as possible during our 2006 Festival. Your help would go a long way in making this festival as successful as possible. We are looking for help in the following areas. Please let us know where you can help.

• Please Contact Us
• Converting the current Static Program Schedule to a calender based one.
• Create artist profiles
• Convey day to day happenings at Festival.
  • Post News From the Festival
  • Upload Festival Pictures as it happens

As we get ready to prepare for next year's Odissi Dance Festival, once again we are presenting one of the very popular Odissi performances again in Washington DC area. More information can be found by clcking here. Make sure to mark your calender and do not miss this highly praised and talented group of performers under the tutelage of Guru Gangadhar Pradhan.

Ok folks.. The mailing list has been fixed now. The old mailing has got corrupted and we have installed a new version of the mailing list program. Please re-subscribe to the list if u have already done so. We r sorry for the trouble. We look forward to having u on our list again.

We are shocked to learn that Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra passed away. We can't express how much we mourn the loss of a legend. Our sincere condolences to the family and we pray to god for peace and happiness to the departed soul.

the IPAP family.

As you all can see nothing much is happening on www.odissi.us lately. We are all working towards the next Odissi Festival. In the meantime we have done few changes to the Galley site and also did some technical upgrade to site.

Don't forget to submit any Indian Classical Dance related articles if you have.

Ajay

As we try to improve this website everyday, we need all the support we can get from people like you. Don't forget to submit your links by clicking at "link" and the click "add link". We would add your link to the site as soon as possible.

IF you can notice then you can see that this website has been redesigned. We are working hard add more features and tools to develop an active community.

If you would like to volunteer then don't hesitate to contact us.

I was writing an email to NetSAP, DC about the Odissi Festival in brief. Then
I thought how about if I post it on the website. It could be valuable if someone
is looking for some quick info.

Name of Event
2nd International Odissi Festival

Brief Description
Indian Embassy, DC and IPAP is organizing the largest gathering
of Odissi Grurus, Dancers, and Scholars in Northern Virginia. Come and
enjoy the live evening performances by Padma Bibhushan Guru Kelucharan
Muhapatra, Mrs Sangeeta Das, Padmashree Madhvi Mudgal and others

Date
August 29th, 30th, 31st

Time
3PM - 10.30PM (See www.odissi.us for Details)

Location
Ernst Community Cultural Center NOVA Community College, Annandale
Campus

Address:

8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003-3743
Ph (703) 323-3159

Time
3PM - 10.30OM (See www.odissi.us for Details)

Metro
Blue Line -> Get Off at King Street Station -> take Bus 29K
or 29N(Saturday) to Fairfax Circle(this Bus takes straight to Campus).

Parking Availability
At the Venue (E-Lot)

Cost
General $30/day & $75/all 3 days
Student $20/day & $50/all 3 days

Contact Information
Ajay Agrawalla
ajay@odissi.us

Web Site
http://www.odissi.us