Bhubaneswar: A dance festival, Mantramagna, by Hallisaka, will be held at Bhanjakala Mandap here, Wednesday.
The festival and award function would provide a grand forum to all the established and emerging artistes to showcase their expertise and excellence on various dance forms.
The event will start at 6:30 pm.
The festival will be attended by Commissioner cum Secretary in Department of Higher Education Bishnupada Sethi, Vice Chancellor, Ramadevi Women University Padmaja Mishra and Vice Chancellor, Utkal University Soumendra Mohan Patnaik.
Padma Vibhusan Pandit Hariprasad Chourasia, Padmashree Prafulla Kar and Padmashree Sudarshan Sahoo will be present there too as advisors. Among others president, Hallisaka Prativa Satpathy and its vice president Susmita Pattnaik will grace the event.
Notably, Hallisaka is a Sanskrit term meaning dance by a group of stars. The institution, Hallisaka, which is created for the preservation and proliferation of traditional dance and music was established in the year 1989. Since then the institution has been engaged in training the aspiring young artistes in the traditional form of Odissi dance and assisting them to further this cultural heritage within and outside the boundaries of Odisha.