Kathak exponent on global promotion mission
Paramita is now experimenting with the ‘abhinaya’ portion of the dance form- ‘Kathak’ where an artist needs to express the feeling involved in the dance piece in such a way that the audience also gets involved with the emotion and find themselves in it and relate themselves with it
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Hailing originally from Kolkata and now settled in Los Angeles, US, she is a trained Kathak dance exponent, dance choreographer and performer. She is now out on a mission—to promote Indian classical dance form- 'Kathak' all over the world, starting with the US. As member of the International Dance council of the UNESCO, she has been travelling many parts of the world, demonstrating Indian dance to the foreign audience, writing about dance and how it relates to our mind, body, soul, how it is involved in our everyday routine, and how it works to improve our life.
Paramita Bhattacharyya, a "Prabhakar" degree holder from 'Prayag Sangeet Samiti' and who has specialised in 'Lucknow gharana' style of Kathak, has also started her own Kathak training institute in Los Angeles with the firm belief that traditional classical art form can help people enhance their life and personality as because it relates to the language of mind, body and soul.
Trained under the living legend, the Kathak maestro Padma Vibhushan Pt Birju Maharaj ji, Pt Brojen Mukherjee and Pt Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee, Paramita is now experimenting with the 'abhinaya' portion of the dance form- 'Kathak' where an artist needs to express the feeling involved in the dance piece in such a way that the audience also gets involved with the emotion and find themselves in it and relate themselves with it.
'Ghazal' is a genre that gives us plenty of opportunity to present many emotions and intense feeling of the subject. I would like to incorporate poetry and narration in these kind of dance presentation along with the music, taal and bol series from 'Kathak', and other artwork as possible and thus improvise my composition to make it exclusively mine and my artwork," says Paramita.
The danseuse from Kolkata is also working on various forms of exchange of cultural ideas with different other dance exponents from around the world to find ways of how to deliver socially relevant messages to people through dance for the benefit of people and the world.
A former radio jockey and TV show host of India's National Channel, Delhi Doordarshan, Paramita also won "Mrs India - Asia USA - Award of Excellence 2017". Next course of action? "I am now trying to do more work for dance and artistic work as wide and diverse as possible. There are opportunities to explore more options to pursue and continue my art work through dance in digital media," says Paramita.
