10 Facts About Aruna Mohanty

Aruna Mohanty is currently the Secretary of the Orissa Dance Academy.

Aruna Mohanty has received a number of awards for her work, including the Padmashree award.

Aruna Mohanty started her training in Odissi under Shrinath Rout and Gobinda Pal.

Aruna Mohanty has received guidance in the dance form from Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Sanjukta Panigrahi and Sonal Mansingh.

Aruna Mohanty has received training in Odissi music from Nirmal Mohanty and Shantanu Das.

Aruna Mohanty has nearly five decades of experience as a dancer and choreographer.

Aruna Mohanty's choreographed works include Srushti O Pralay depicting the super cyclone that hit Odisha in 1999, Sravana Kumar, Kharavela, Jatra Baramasi, Gatha Odissi, Pratinayak, Krishna Sharanam, several Ashtapadis from Jayadeva's Gita Govinda, and Siddhartha based on the novel of the same name by the German novelist Hermann Hesse.

Aruna Mohanty has used her art to examine contemporary and social issues; for example.

Aruna Mohanty has conducted research on dance, focusing on topics such as the representation of the male dancer in classical sculpture and the evolution of Odissi in the post-Independence era.

Aruna Mohanty has been a visiting scholar at several universities in the United States of America, such as the University of California, University of South Carolina and Cornell University.