1. Reela Hota is an Odissi dance performer, educator and producer, who has several performances to her credit.
17 Facts About Reela Hota
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Purna Hota was the topper of the 1962-batch Civil-Services and went on to be the Chairman UPSC.
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Bijoylaxmi Reela Hota is a great yoga teacher and has written eight books on the subject 'Yoga and Food'.
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Reela Hota has an elder sister Reema Singh, IRS and an elder brother Prasenjeet Hota.
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Reela Hota started training early at the age of eight under Guru Gangadhar Pradhan.
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Reela Hota went on to advance her dancing skills under the able guidance of Gurvi Madhavi Mudgal and the legendary Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.
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In 2013 Reela Hota achieved another milestone in her career to create a unique dance fusion on the healing aspect of Sanskrit when she collaborated with Ballet dancers from Bucharest National Opera House in what is the first-time-ever "amalgamation of Western classical and Odissi".
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In 2014, Reela Hota worked with Broadway current sensation, Jason Macdonald to create an Unusual and exotic synergy of Dance, Music and Drama on symbolism of seven chakras.
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Reela Hota produced and starred in the first ever Opera "Ramleela in Opera".
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The spectacle had Mattia Oliviere, Raffaele Abette and Federico Benitti play Lord Rama, Prince Lakshman and Shri Hanuman respectively while Reela Hota essayed the role of Sita.
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Reela Hota has organized the International Ancient Arts, a unique festival-cum-symposium in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
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The International Ancient Arts Festival of 2012, organised by Reela Hota was a two-day gala affair where Aruna Broota, a Delhi-based clinical psychologist, had some hard-hitting points to make about the social perceptions regarding the arts and Vivien Marcow Speiser, a dance therapist and professor at Lesley University expounded on the idea of 'the body as a sacred instrument'.
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The highlight of the festival was "Sanskrit: the Mantra Bhasha" where Reela Hota danced with ballet dancers from Bucharest National Opera House to Hindustani classical music and Western classical symphonies.
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Reela Hota is the youngest celebrity and only Odissi dancer to be featured in by Doordarshan Bharati on the Program: 'What Celebrities Say' with stalwarts such as Padma Bhushan Dr Raja Reddy, Pandit Birju Maharaj and Padma Bhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhari.
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Reela Hota produced and performed in a fusion dance for Colors of India series of the Rajya Sabha TV with artists Bogdan Canila, Christina Dijmaru, Lipsa Das, and others.
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Since 2008, Reela Hota teaches dance to the local community of Rikhia, Jharkhand, as her 'sewa' or selfless service.
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Reela Hota has performed in many prestigious Indian dance festivals.