
Discover Odissi through a beginner introduction that highlights physical health, emotional and cognitive development, and how dance builds creativity, self-discipline, time management, and social skills.
Explore Odissi's core vocabulary of single-handed gestures and expressions, and learn how these mudras convey emotion, story, and meaning through deliberate hand shapes and postures.
Set clear immediate goals and a long-term expedition to guide your Odissi practice, visualize performance, breathe deeply, and practice hand gestures, posture, and eye movement daily.
Develop determination and a readiness to learn to become a good dancer. Build flexibility, stamina, balance, and focus through consistent practice and meditation, then synchronize movements with music for timing.
Learn eight eye movements for Odissi dance, including looking straight, circular gaze to the right, glances from corners, side-to-side motion, upward and downward gaze, with coordinated head and neck movement.
Review Odissi expressions and gestures, focusing on hand mudras, eye movements, and head and neck motions, with practice of 22 mudras and related facial expressions.
Odissi basics by recognizing head, neck and arm gestures, hand mudras, and expressions drawn from a Sanskrit text, then apply your knowledge in a video challenge.
Odissi beginners blueprint inspires passion with belief and determination, showing how passion in work and life fuels creativity, drives big goals with a team, and proves nothing is impossible.
Explore odissi beginners blueprint and the salutation to mother earth, bhumi pranam, while practicing dance that honors earth from the beginning to the end.
This course is for beginners without any experience and is ideal for children above 9 years and will act as a catalyst to enhance the mental and physical agility during these challenging times.
ODISSI BEGINNERS BLUEPRINT will introduce you to the scintillating world of Odissi (Indian Classical Dance form) which is a combination of subtle, graceful movements , rhythmic footwork , stylish hand gestures and beautiful expressions. The interactive modules will make you familiar with the basics of this scintillating dance form.
You will learn
About the origin , the various gestures , postures and expressions.
Basic steppings which will get you ready for the advanced levels.
You will learn the basic exercises required to keep you flexible.
Challenges which will keep you on your toes.