Dipanwita Roy Odissi Dancer Profile

Dipanwita Roy is an eminent Odissi Dancer and a disciple of the great Odissi Gurus Padmavibhushan Late Shri Kelucharan Mahapatra and Padmashree Late Shrimati Sanjukta Panigrahi. She has performed at major cultural centres in India and has extensively toured U.S.A., U.K., France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy where she undertook performances, workshops, and demonstrations.

Dipanwita is an “A” grade National Artiste of television in India. In 1996, under a scholarship from the British Council Division at Calcutta, she attended the International Summer School at the prestigious “Laban Centre for Movement and Dance”, London, where she studied Pilates body conditioning exercise, choreography and functional anatomy. In 1997, Dipanwita had worked for a documentary film “YET TO SPROUT” on destitute children of India, and in 2004 “GATEWAY TO HEAVEN” on the Jagannath Temple, Puri (Orissa).

She holds a distinction for senior diploma in Odissi from “Prayag Sangeet Samiti”, Allahabad, and has been awarded the title “Singarmani” by Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai (1986). Also got "Bharat Nirman Award" by the Bharat Nirman Award Committee (2009)

Dipanwita’s sensitive rendering of dramatic expressions combine with impeccable coordination of body movements blend to make her a dancer of considerable talent. Apart from being a dancer, Dipanwita is also a painter, which had assisted in her interpretation of the sculptural poses of the Odissi dance.

Since 1984 she is holding a school of Odissi dance, “SHIBARANJANI”. She has taught nuances of Odissi to many local and foreign students, some of who have performed at prestigious programmes in India and abroad.