26th August, during our Ananda Odissi Festival is another special day for Odissi in the UK and the first ever Odissi Syllabus Open Day with  an invited  panel of senior UK based dance professionals. Participants, including aspiring and well established teachers and students dedicated to Odissi will be able to participate, contributing to the much needed process of creating a working syllabus for Odissi. Experts include Odissi exponent Padmasri Guru Madhavi Mudgal, Sujata Bannerjee (ISTD Faculty Director and Kathak exponent), Mira Misra Kaushik (OBE, Director, Akademi), Urja Thakore (leading Kathak expert, Artistic Director, Pagrav and ISTD Examiner), Pushkala Gopalakrishnan (leading Bharatanatyam Expert and Mentor for ISTD syllabus developing).

11:30AM-4:00PM; Room: P0.32/33, University of Bedfordshire.