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Birendra
Pani’s show titled “Boy dancer: Convergence
and Continuum” is a part of his “continuous
process of engagement” with the traditional dance
form of Orissa called Gotipua dance. His attempt is
the production of a new language at the “interface”
of the two different art forms i.e. the visual and the
performative and the emergence of a relational aesthetics
as well as a new discursive field. The intentionality
of the artist is the creation of a personal iconography
by negotiating with the global-local conundrum and the
cultural negligence of Orissan art and by engaging with
popular, local traditions in an innovative way through
mediatic-realism, photography and drawings etc. The
gotipua dance which is performed by the boys in the
guise of girls has its own language, rhetoric, and symbols
and has a living experience through the fabric of social
life. This process generates a different variety of
tone and style and a variegated way of discourse production
about the nature of continuation of this once popular
but now annihilated pre-modern traditional dance form.
Rajashree Biswal
Baroda.
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