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However, it was US-based mesmerising male dancer Vishnu Tatwa Das who was the show stealer of the festival with
his amazing abhinaya like his guru the legendary Kelucharan Mohapatra.....read more
(by SHYAMHARI CHAKRA, The Hindu, Friday, Jan 04, 2008)
The performance of the session, indeed of the festival, throwing overboard conventional gender trappings,
lay in the strapping six-footer now based in California Vishnu Tatwa Das (originally a student of the ORC under Kelucharan Mohapatra),
presenting the erotic lyric "Lila He Nidhi". No awkward coyness here while creating a vision of a transformed,
nude Radha, who after intimate moments pleads that Krishna return her clothes......read more
(by LEELA VENKATARAMAN, “Odissi cornucopia...from Orissa!” The Hindu, Friday, Jan 05, 2007)
Vishnu Tattva Das from USA, swept the audience off its feet, by his rendition of Kuru Yadu Nandana. His sensuality
and eroticism was further heightened by the music, carrying everyone into a realm of divine love play between Radha and Krishna......
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(by Rahul Acharya & Sangita Gosain, “National Festival of Odissi Dance and Music”, Bhubaneswar, Narthaki, April 6, 2007)
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