OCTOBER 8 + 9, 2023
SAT + SUN AT 8PM
Fall for Dance, NY City Center

OCTOBER 18+19, 2023
WED + THU AT 7.30PM
Eisenhover Auditorium, Center for the Performing Arts, PENN STATE

Workshop Dates: 22-30 Jan 2024

Over 9 days, Purnāng will be led by Bijayini Satpathy along with Priyadarsini Govind as a guest faculty for Abhinaya at Adishakti, Pondicherry. Participants will train in Yoga, Natyshastra Charis, Body conditioning techniques, teaching techniques and Bijayini Satpathy's Odissi pedagogy along with the language of Abhinaya, narrative dance. The dance sessions will be with live Mardala accompaniment.

Workshop Dates: 8-16 Jan 2024

Designed as a residential workshop at Adishakti, Pondicherry, Parichay will be led by Bijayini Satpathy and her senior student Prithvi Nayak with Priyadarsini Govind as a guest faculty for Abhinaya. Over 9 days, participants will train in Yoga, Natyshastra Charis, Body conditioning techniques and Bijayini Satpathy's Odissi pedagogy along with the language of Abhinaya, narrative dance. The dance sessions will be with live Mardala accompaniment.

In her fifth and final performance as 2021-2022 MetLiveArts Artist in Residence, the incomparable choreographer and dancer Bijayini Satpathy built on her prior explorations of movement and art with an evening-length performance for the stage of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The new work, entitled “Dohā,” navigates the relationship between prayer and play, moving away from the Odissi dance form’s customary theistic depictions to highlight the bhāva—emotional experience—of prayer as an embodied human act. Within the discipline of ritualized prayer, Satpathy embraces play and playfulness as an essential part of the individual’s search for the divine.

MetLiveArts 2021-22 Artist in Residence Bijayini Satpathy's performances were inspired by—and took place in—various galleries around The Met, engaging with each site’s architecture as well as its ancestry, stories, legends, and aesthetics that are so different from Odissi’s. For these site-specific creations, Satpathy collaborated with composer Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy, who has moved the soundscape away from traditional Odissi music and into unconventional spaces. Now, MetLiveArts looks back on the groundbreaking works that Satpathy and Narayanaswamy created for The Met's galleries with high-quality videos of Satpathy's dynamic performances.

Bijayini Satpathy and Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy come together for a special Zoom conversation about their ongoing partnership, presenting a behind-the-scenes look at the process that brought their collaborations to The Met. Grab a cup of coffee and join us for this discussion, moderated by Limor Tomer, The Met's Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang General Manager for Live Arts.

As a part of The Met's celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, MetLiveArts looks back on the groundbreaking works that Bijayini Satpathy created as Artist in Residence. Stay tuned over the course of May for high-quality videos of Satpathy's dynamic performances, and be sure to join Satpathy and composer Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy for a discussion of their collaboration and process, moderated by Limor Tomer, The Met's Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang General Manager for Live Arts.

May 12, 13 & 14
Venue: Esplanade Theatre Studio

"ABHIPSAA — a seeking" charts a journey of discovery in physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. In four choreographic works Satpathy expands the parameters of the formal and representational norms of the Odissi tradition through both narrative and non-narrative dances - reimagining classical Odissi forms through a personalised interpretation.

September 14, 2022
Bijayini Satpathy will be facilitating a workshop and also deliver a lecture at the Dance Department, Hunter’s College, NYC.

September 19, 2022
Bijayini Satpathy maps the journey of Odissi from the pre-Christian period to the global dance that Odissi is today, addressing the key milestones on the way of its evolution as a first guest for “The Dr. Sunil Kothari Honorary Lecture” instituted by New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.