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Jatin Goswami (born 2 August 1933) is an Indian dancer and choreographer, known as one of the prominent exponents of the classical dance form of Sattriya. [2] He is the founder director of Sattriya Akademi, Guwahati, a sitting member of its Advisory Committee, [3] and a former member of the General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. [1]
Anita Sharma is a Sattriya dancer from Assam, India. She has conducted extensive research on Assamese folk culture and the Satriya dance form. In 2014, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Sattriya dance.
Shri Bora was born in 1950 in Majuli.At the age of four, Shri Bora was brought to the Kamalabari Sattra in Majuli as a sattra inmate. At the age of six, the child Ghanakanta started receiving training in Sattriya dance and music from the great exponent of the Vaishnavite tradition, Late Maniram Dutta Muktiyar Barbayan.
Sarodi took formal dance lessons from the age of five. She initially learned Manipuri dance from Rathin Singh. She later learned Kathak dance and Sattriya dance. [5] Raseswar Saikia Barbayan of Kamalabari Satra was a friend of Sarodi's father. He told her mother that he would teach Sarodi Satriya dance.
Pushpa Bhuyan (c. 1946 – 7 October 2015) was an Indian classical dancer specialising in the Indian classical dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Sattriya. [2] She comes from the Northeast Indian state of Assam, [2] and learned sattriya from Bhabananda Barbayan. [3] She later studied bharatanatyam under Guru Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer.
Indira P. P. Bora is a Satriya dancer from Assam, India. [1] [2] Trained in Bharatnatyam for 13 years under Guru Rukmini Devi Arundale and in Kuchipudi under the guidance of Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam. [3] Bora has promoted and performed Satriya in New Zealand, the United States, and Vietnam.
A dance form of Assam performed in Tols or Namghar by both men and women separately. Sattriya dance is one of eight dance styles of India recognized as classical dance by the Sangeet-Natak Academy. The word Sattriya comes from the word Satra. On 15 nov,2000, The Sangeet-Natak Academy recognized Sattriya dance as one of the classical dances of ...
The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Sattriya, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.