"Dancing for The Divine" by Dr Susil PaniIn his book "Dancing for The Divine", the author shares pictures of dance Mudras extracted from the original photographs
shot during the "Sree Geetagovinda Festival" held in 2014 at Rabindra
Mandap in Bhubaneswar.
"I was one among the many photographers assigned to document the
festival. Having a couple of thousand pictures, it needed a few
months for completing the editing. At the end of about a year, I
realised that quite a large number of the pictures looked much better
and majestic in black and white rather than in color. Thus, I
presented my work as an exhibition of Odissi dance pictures, all in
black and white at 'Sri Aurobindo Ashram Exhibition Hall' in the year
2018. While working on this presentation, I realised that many of
the postures and poses were actually some form of traditional dance
Mudras. Still some of these pictures did not fit into any specific
dance posture, although they were beautiful and expressive. They
conveyed something different; though one could call these as 'abstract',
there was a profound Truth underneath.
I got an inspiration from my friend Dr.Archana to read writings of The
Mother and Sri Aurobindo that can relate to these photographs.
Thus the concept crystalized to present these pictures along with the
writings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo."
- Excerpt from the Preface by Dr. Susil Pani (24 Nov, Pondicherry)
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