The Second ‘WOCUE Rasa-Navam’ ( something special captures )

F rom the set of pics that came under our consideration, we selected this beautiful capture of Smt. Shashwati Garai Ghosh in landacape orientation as the second WOCUE rasanavam – something special captures.

Photo by : Debojyothi Dhar, Captured at Mukteshwar Fest, 2017

In this picture, the Dancer is positioned like a wonderful sculpture. The color of her costume is well blended into atmosphere of the stones on the Temple structure in the background. Lights on the Temple structure are nice and the other structures goes into darkness slowly into the infinity.

(Announced on 29th May 2017)

About the Artist :

SMT. SHASHWATI GARAI GHOSH

Smt. Shashwati Garai Ghosh, is an Odissi Dancer from Kolkotta. She is a Disciple of Vidushi Sharmila Biswas. Shashwati has performed several times at the Konark Festival, the Mukteshwar Festival, and the Ananya Festival in India. Besides, she has danced at Menaka Thakkar’s group production (Toronto, 2004), Maximum India (Washington, 2011), and at Esplanade’s Kala Utsavam (Singapore, 2016) to name a few of her stints worldwide. She has been presented so many prestigious awards such as Usthad Bismillakhan Yuva Puraskkar, Kelucharan Mahapatra Yuva Pratibha Samman etc….

For more info, please follow the link : Smt. Shashwati Garai Ghosh

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