Asako Takami

October 27, 7pm
Benefit Performance for Asako, An offering from the Bay Area Dance Community
Cultural Integration Fellowship (CIF)
2650 Fulton St
San Francisco, CA

Asako Takami is a well-known and loved Odissi Dancer of Japanese descent who has been sharing Odissi dance in the San Francisco Bay Area for 15 years. She started her training in 1983 with Smt. Kumkum Lal and then with legendary Late Padmavibhushan Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. For the past four years, she has been battling cancer, and she has not been able to dance or teach dance for almost a year and a half now.

This is a rare and unique dance event celebrating Asako - her teacher from India, the Bay Area Indian dance community and her students uniting together for their love of Asako to provide moral and financial support to her at this time of great need. We request you to come forward and share in our tribute so that your participation and generosity will echo our deepest sentiments.

2002 Workshop with Mr. Pradhan

November 16 & 23 2003: Odissi Workshop

Visiting Artists Manoranjan Pradhan and Minati Dasgupta conducted a very special Odissi workshop in Berkeley, CA. Mr. Pradhan has been visiting the US regularly for several years and often collaborates with Asako performing and teaching. This year we were very lucky to also have accomplished dancer Minati Dasgupta Pradhan visit and teach.

Manroanjan Pradhan & Minati Dasgupta

Odissi Dance
A rare night of sacred temple dance from Orissa, India
Sri Manoranjan Pradhan and Minati Dasgupta
with Asako Takami and Chaitee Sengupta

November 22, 2003 8pm
First Unitarian Universalist Society
1187 Franklin St. @ Geary (map)
San Francisco, CA

Manoranjan Pradhan and Minati Dasgupta are a husband and wife dance team from Orissa, India. A unique opportunity to see this talented and inspiring couple perform in the Bay Area, this was their first appearance together in the Bay Area.