Sharon Lowen - Odissi

Odissi

The renowned Odissi dancer has assimilated and internalised Indian art and culture to the extent that she is more Indian than many of us. During the last 25 years, she has brought out the exquisite grace of Odissi through her performances in India and abroad. … Abhinaya is her strength, and she performs Odissi without altering even an iota of its form or style.Odissi is considered a sensuous style because of its emphasis upon rounded movements. Miss Lowen conveyed this sensuousness by her entrance in her opening solo of invocation.

Odissi dancer Sharon Lowen mesmerized (the)audience … Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam. She has served as a visiting professor in various Indian and US universities and presented several lecture-demonstrations at universities, schools, museums and art centres. She not only teaches Odissi but also conducts workshops in Chhau and Manipuri dance. She is the first woman soloist of a previously all-male form, responsible for introducing Mayurbhanj Chhau to the United States at the 1978 Asian Dance Festival in Hawaii and later at the Olympic Arts Festival of Masks in Los Angeles and is singularly responsible for getting Chhau presented on Doordarshan' s National Broadcasts.