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PRISM is a space for various viewpoints and ideas that reflect and refract the multiple discourses about dance, scholarship, performance, composition and choreography. Several prominent practitioners and researchers will illuminate their thoughts grounded in experience and embodied practice.

2024



CHAALI... taking dance to her audience
- Bharat Sharma
e-mail: bhasha.dance @gmail.com 



Resonating traditions: The power of Odissi in a global context
- Dr. Rohini Dandavate
e-mail: dandavate2@gmail.com



Natya Shastra: The ancient text bridging music, dance and drama
- Vasini Shyama Charan Jha
e-mail: jhavasini@gmail.com



History of Evolution of Odissi Dance after Independence
- Dr. Ileana Citaristi
e-mail: icitaris@gmail.com


2023


Tandava across art: Exploring Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan’s diverse representation of Tandava
- Kiran Java
e-mail: kiran@kiranjava.com


2022


Sandeśa Kāvya
- Seema KS
e-mail: seemaksrinath@gmail.com



Gender study through Nayika Bheda as applied in Indian dance tradition
- Srabani Basu
e-mail: odissi.srabani@gmail.com



Postmodern meets Pre-Dravidian
- Marc-Paul Lambert
e-mail: sundara2004@yahoo.com


2021


Connecting to Ramlila through its rituals
- Sunil Sunkara
e-mail: sunilrsunkara@gmail.com



Reviving a lost tradition of dance
- Kiran Java
e-mail: kiran@kiranjava.com



Devi Diaries 2021: Part 1

Devi Diaries 2021: Part 2 



Chidaakaasham: Myriad Expressions of Art (Day 2)
- A.M. Hari Shankar
e-mail: hshankar252@gmail.com



Chidaakaasham: Myriad Expressions of Art (Day 1)
- A.M. Hari Shankar
e-mail: hshankar252@gmail.com



ANDAL'S GARDEN: The Love Letter



ANDAL'S GARDEN: Part 2


2020


ANDAL'S GARDEN: Part 1



Six and a half decades on the stage
- G Venu
e-mail: abhinayakairali@gmail.com



Gat Palta as a Kakshya Vibhajan tool in Kathak
- Sunil Sunkara
e-mail: sunilrsunkara@gmail.com



The Katha of Mudras
Asamyukta Hastamudras from the Natyashastra as seen in Kathak Parampara
 

- Sunil Sunkara
e-mail: sunilrsunkara@gmail.com


2019

 

Classical dance vis-a-vis free thinking
- Dr. Utpal K Banerjee
e-mail: ukb7@rediffmail.com



Contribution of male stage artistes to the evolution of Odissi dance
- Ileana Citaristi
e-mail: ileana5@hotmail.com



Purvaranga
From Bharata's Natyamandapam to Kathak Proscenium 
- Sunil Sunkara
Edited by Dr. Puru Dadheech



Shringaar in Odissi dance: A recollection
- Translated from Odia by Malabika Patel: mala_bika@yahoo.com
- Edited, notes and pics by Ileana Citaristi: ileana5@hotmail.com



Resonating in Rasa
- Sunil Sunkara
e-mail: sunilrsunkara@gmail.com



Rhythmic narratives of Pt Lacchu Maharaj - The Kavit Paran
- Paullumi B Mukherjee
e-mail: paullomimukherjee@yahoo.in



Influence of Bharata's 'Tandavalakshanam' on Kathak 'Taalpaksh'
- Sunil Sunkara
e-mail: sunilrsunkara@gmail.com



Krishna or Godot?
- Ileana Citaristi
e-mail: ileana5@hotmail.com



First Presidential address by Biranchi Narayan Rautray in the first meeting of Jayantika established on June 22, 1958
(Translated from Odia by Malabika Patel, edited by Ileana Citaristi)



Inventing of a Notation System for Mudra: The language of Dance and Theatre in Kerala - Part 1
- G. Venu
e-mail: abhinayakairali@gmail.com



Inventing of a Notation System for Mudra: The language of Dance and Theatre in Kerala - Part 2
- G. Venu
e-mail: abhinayakairali@gmail.com



Classification and serial order of Odissi  dance (1975)
- Pankaj Charan Das
Translated from Odiya by Ileana Citaristi
e-mail: ileana5@hotmail.com


2018


The rise and fall of Jayantika
- Ileana Citaristi
e-mail: ileana5@hotmail.com



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