Swarnamayee Behera
Odissi Guru
Swarnamayee Behera is an Odissi dancer with 23 years of dance experience.
About
Swarnamayee Behera is an Odissi dancer with 23 years of dance experience. She trained under Guru Kanduri ch Behera and Guru Meera Das, and holds a Visharad in Odissi Dance from Prachina Kala Kendra, Chandigarh. She completed an MPA in Odissi from Sambalpur University and is pursuing an MPhil at Utkal University of Culture.
She has worked as an assistant teacher at GODMECOR and Gunjan Dance Academy, Cuttack, and as an Odissi Dance teacher at Success Point, Bhubaneswar. She also served as a Dance Coach at Kendriya Vidyalaya from April 2023 to February 2024. Her work includes solo and group Odissi performance, as well as composition of Sambalpur folk and semi-classical dance.
Her performance record includes appearances at festivals and programmes in Delhi, Kolkata, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Keonjhar, Khajuraho, Bengaluru, and Indonesia. She has received a B-Grade artist recognition from Doordarshan Kendra Bhubaneswar, a Senior Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture/CCRT, and other honours.
Selected performances
Geetinatya at Sree Nilachala Seva Sangha, Delhi
2009
Swabhumi, Kolkata
2014
Sita Utsav, Keonjhar
2017
Malhar Utsav, Bbsr
2017
Sidhha, Bhopal
2018
Barbil Program, Barbil
2018
Megha Utsav, Bbsr
2018
Smruti Sumanta Program, Bbsr
2018
Paradeep Baliyatra Program, Paradeep
2018
Baliyatra Cuttack Program, Cuttack
2018
Sidhha, Bhopal
2019
Mukteshwar Dance Festival, Bhubaneswar
2019
Khandagiri Udaygiri Mahotsav
2019
State Seminar Judicial Academy Program
2019
Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan Program, Bbsr
2019
Naba Gunjan, Ctc
2019
Kolkata Program, Kolkata
2019
Guwahati Program, Guwahati
2019
SOA Program
2019
Dance Jathre, Bangalore
2020
Khajuraho Festival, Madhya Pradesh
2020
Megha Utsav, Bbsr
2021
Ayakar Bhawan, India
2022
Barbil Program, Barbil
2022
Judicial Academy Program
2022
Konark Festival, Bhubaneswar
2022
Duet Dance at Mukteshwar Dance Festival
2024
Performances in Bali, Jakarta, Surabaya, Purwakart and Batam, Indonesia, through ICCR
2024
Meera Dance Festival, Rabindra Manadap
2024
Kallinga Dhauli Mahostav
2024
IFFCO, Paradeep
2024
EZCC Kolkata, Vani Vihar, Bbsr
2024