Odissi dance tour / 2023

Jaya Ram

Season 3 · Penang & Perak

Our role

Producer · Surprise Ventures

When

8 – 9 December 2023

Where

George Town, Penang · Batu Gajah, Perak

Sutra dancers in orange and red Odissi costumes posed against carved temple architecture — The Jaya Ram ensemble. Production photography in Khajuraho, India, 2023.

The project

An Odissi homage to Rama, carried to audiences in Penang and Perak.

Sutra Foundation’s Jaya Ram celebrates Rama, hero of the Ramayana, through Odissi. Season 3 travelled to The Top Komtar Banquet Ballroom in George Town on 8 December 2023 and Silverlakes Village Outlet in Batu Gajah on 9 December.

Surprise Ventures acted as producer for this two-stop tour, with concept and artistic direction by Guru Gajendra Kumar Panda and Datuk Ramli Ibrahim.

A collaboration

Project credits

Photography: S Magendran, Khajuraho, India, 2023. Image from the Season 3 tour poster.

Producer: Surprise Ventures
Presented by: Sutra Foundation
Concept & artistic direction: Guru Gajendra Kumar Panda & Datuk Ramli Ibrahim
Music composition: Guru Gajendra Kumar Panda & Pandit Gopal Chandra Panda
Lighting: Sivarajah Natarajan
Performers: Artistes of Sutra Foundation

Next project / 2021

Lari

Masakini Theatre Company