Weekly Live Group Class on Odissi Dance

Guru Sanchita Bhattacharya is one of the prominent and leading Odissi dance soloists today, in the global arena who is taking Odissi to towering heights, the world over. Her lyrically graceful presentations , spiritually charged and classically finessed with elegant body & strong foot work , with command over rhythmic intricacies ,and above all her ethereal stage presence makes her repertoire a memorable experience for the audience. Her scholarly and divine personality and the kindness of her soul comes across transcending the stage boundaries. More over her ability to transform the audience into a higher spiritual trance and deeper yogic experience with finesse and subtlety , makes her repertoire probably one of the most breathtaking and unparalleled, a truly world class experience for the audience. She makes them smile and cry with her.
She is not only a high calibre soloist but a prolific teacher and Guru with vast knowledge not only on ; , the dance aspects but also on that of ‘ Shastras” and the deeper levels of understating and practicing such a prolific subject like Odissi . She also has notable guiding and motivating abilities , with sharp eye for precision & perfection and with excellent communication and story telling ability in easy comprehensible language and skills to sculpt finesse in the postures and movements of her disciples . She has immense contribution in popularizing this from world wide through Master Classes / workshops / lecture demonstrations. She had been performing as soloist and also teaching , the world over , for last almost three decades.
From performing as a soloist at Madison Sq Garden to the The Ford Theatre Hollywood to Esplanade theatre in Singapore to duet with tap and with Flamenco in Toledo Spain to International Ko- Andu Arts Festival Taiwan to top notch festivals and venues in India including The Khajuraho Festival, Kalidas Sammelan ,The Jagannath Temple Puri to Sankat Mochan Festival, Shri Krishna Gana Sabha – Chennai to Dover lane Festival in Kolkata and many more, she has done it all, having numerous heart touching solo Odissi performance world over, to her credit. Spreading over almost three decades not only in India but in countries like USA ,Canada , Europe, UK , China , Singapore , Taiwan etc specially in many virgin territories , her performances have created the niche for her form and herself.

Awarded “The Cultural Ambassador of India” by Senator John G Pappageorge, USA, The prestigious Mahari Samman in 2018 from GPCORF and Ministry of Culture – Govt . Of Odisha, Awarded Shree Kshetra Mahari (Devadasi) from Shree Kshtra Hanuman Jayanti Committee of Shri Jagannath Temple Puri, , Awarded Mashal Pratibha Samman by Ministery of Culture and Tourism Odisha , and many more accolades ,Sanchita Bhattacharya is truly taking this from to world dance forum. Aptly has the Edmonton Journal 4th June 2004 (Canada) endorsed “----she has become an ambassador of Odissi dance around the world.” And The New York Times opines”.... her dance is described as perfection.”
In USA , over and above her regular classes in Raleigh Durham , Dallas, Portland etc , Sanchita lecture demonstrated in top notch universities and colleges like The Duke, The University of North Carolina, The Universites of Iowa , Minnesota , Susquehanna, Milwaukee , Escondido ( Mexico Border ), Vassar College ( Ivy league ) Quaker Schools , Antioch schools and college etc generating immense interest and popularity , admiration , fan following for Odissi dance ( and Indian culture in general ) at all levels , all ethnicities transcending geographical and cultural barriers. In China she has taught / taken master classes for more than 300 hundred students in Beijing, Harbin, Chongqing , Chengdu , Guangzhou University of Dance etc , most of them virgin territories and created lots of interest , enthusiasm and passion for Odissi and Indian Classical dance in general resulting in some of the students seriously pursuing Odissi .

Sanchita uses her dance for patriotic purposes, to serve the nation. In 2014 she did a mega concert fundraising Raising International concert tour with Shankara Eye Foundation and raised substantial amount through her concerts enabling thousands of state on art free eye operations for plebeian senior citizens of India
In 2018 she again did a mega concert USA tour with Support a Child Mission, a 150 Schools / orphanages taking all round care of more than 9000 orphan and backward children in India . Sanchita’s concerts facilitated to fundraise for the total annual expanse of more than 2460 such children .
Over and above working with challenged children , plebeian children etc Sanchita is the founder of Sanchita Dance Foundation where in talented yet financially challenged girls are given free of cost talim and also their expenses related to dance ( costume , music etc ) are taken care by the foundation. Over and above her classes in Kolkata and Asansole Sanchita has been teaching world over through not only workshops but also through internet virtual classes for the last ten years , which is only now thought to be the way of life.
Awards and Felicitations

• Utkala Samman – Kolkata 2019 awarded Shree Jagannatha Seva Samity and Kagannath Mandir Trust – Kolkata
• Mahari 2018 from Bhubaneshwar by Ministry of Culture Odisha and GPCD Foundation.
• Honorary Doctorate on 2017 from Hindusthan Art and Music Society, an internationally present borad for examination of performing and visual art . ( University status –applied for ).
• Special Award for extraordinary contribution world wide , in the field of Indian Classical dance , by Public Relation Society on India on their Diamond Jublee celebration -2018.
• Dhara Shree Radha Nayika Samman 2017 from Bhubaneshwar
• Bharat Nirman Award 2016 as a couple (Jointly with Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya , Sanchita ji’s spouse) in recognition of their exemplary contribution in the field of Classical Dance and Classical Music respectively
• Mashal Pratibha Samman-Odisha 2012- Ministry of Culture Odisha
• Sangeet Shyamala Award 2011 – Kolkata
• Rash Ratna Awrad 2011 by Hindustan art Music Society.
• Dover Lane Music Conference Award 2008
• Cultural Ambassador of India awarded to her by Senator John G Pappageorge, Detroit , USA in 2007
• Kolkata Gourav Samman by Indian Press 2007
• Bharat Nirman Award 2006 for outstanding contribution to Indian Classical dance in taking it worldwide
• Shree KshetraMahari (Devadasi )2005 by Hanuman Jayanti Committee of The Shree Jagannath Temple Puri
• Swayam Siddha Award by Rotary International 2005
• SwabalambiBidushi, 2000
• Kalpataru Award – Delhi – 2000