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07/09/10: By the way, I just put up a clip of the urvasi Dancers at the Paramount Theater in Seattle today and tomorrow night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOeS49UM6vM
07/09/10: Urvasi is performing this weekend at the Paramount Theater in Seattle in the Dance This! program. A couple weeks ago Ratna's Evergreen class put on a play/dance performance about the Jhansi Ki Rani (Queen of Jhansi)in India during the middle 19th Century struggle for Indian independance from the British East Indian Trading Company's rule there. We have been busy, but in between I finally got all my photo galleries working at this, our new home, www.urvasidance.com. I will continue working to bring this site up to speed with the olywa site I can no longer access. There is still a lot of work to be done bringing all our past performances up to date on the News page. As always, I welcome all feedback and input about this site. Thank you for your time and help. __David
09/29/09: I AM BACK! Due to health reasons, I was unable to work on the Odissi site since winter of 2006-07. In the interim our old host was sold to Integra Telcom who will not allow any of the customers who had sub-domains at Olywa,net (which Integra Telcom bought) to access their sites any longer. Though I have asked repeatedly over the last year to be able to update our webpages at Olywa.net, we have been disallowed from accessing our OWN webpages by Integra Telcom. In frustration we are finally migrating to 1and1. So far 1and 1 seems a far more friendly company than Integra Telcom! Hope you like the new URL and tell all your dance friends about it.
We have new e-mail addresses also, but it will take me some time to comb through all these pages and replace all the old references with our new e-mail addresses. In the meantime please make note that Ratna's new e-mail address is ratnaroy@urvasidance.com and my new e-mail address is david@urvasidance.com. As always, I value your feedback to make this a better website. Please write me with your thoughts.
--David
09/29/09: I AM BACK! Due to health reasons, I was unable to work on the Odissi site since winter of 2006-07. In the interim our old host was sold to Integra Telcom who will not allow any of the customers who had sub-domains at Olywa,net (which Integra Telcom bought) to access their sites any longer. Though I have asked repeatedly over the last year to be able to update our webpages at Olywa.net, we have been disallowed from accessing our OWN webpages by Integra Telcom. In frustration we are finally migrating to 1and1. So far 1and 1 seems a far more friendly company than Integra Telcom! Hope you like the new URL and tell all your dance friends about it. We have new e-mail addresses also, but it will take me some time to comb through all these pages and replace all the old references with our new e-mail addresses. In the meantime please make note that Ratna's new e-mail address isratnaroy@urvasidance.com and my new e-mail address is david@urvasidance.com. As always, I value your feedback to make this a better website. Please write me with your thoughts. --David03/17/06: Most of the Konarak performance images have been up for days now. The last two will be video stills. It takes considerably longer to find a good freeze frame to substitute for a still photograph, and more time to remove some of the blur from motion. I've been too involved with redesigning the Dance Shop pages to find the necessary time. I think all the links in the Dance Shop were working alright, but some of the formatting was not functioning as it ought. Those pages should be fine now, but a heads up from anyone who sees a problem would be appreciated. Remember these pages are designed to view properly at 1024 by 768 screen resolution. Well...
Last night I also put up a couple more pictures of Sashimani Mahari (they are only accessible from here for now). When we went to Orissa last Ratna was having to shepherd a class of college students, and we were preparing for the Konarak performance. There wasn't even time for me to go visit family, so we only stopped briefly in Puri to leave a little funding with the maharis. Sashimani had missed us; She'd been sick again and this time we weren't there. She complained we hadn't known she was sick and come from our village, America, to comfort her. How can one even begin to explain the distances involved to someone who has lived their entire life in one place?
Unhappy we weren't staying to visit, Sashimani decided we needed to get her a new sari. An ingenuous stalling ploy if you think about it! We were obliged to do as she wished, so I took a couple of quick digi-pix of the process. They aren't great as photos, but they are a record of sorts. Again, to see those pictures you have to go here. The work on this site continues...
---David
02/25/06: There is a lot of work to do to get some of these pages caught up, but for the moment check out the photo gallery's new layout. Also, please note, there are now photos of some Ordissi musicians. I will try and get some pages up soon about our most recent performance in Orissa. Begging your indulgence... David
12/23-25/05: This is a new page dedicated to getting the word out, so to speak. Please take a few minutes and read. Tell your friends!
(01/10/05) I haven't had time to mention updates/maintainence to the web site lately. Am currently working to get this page more up-to-date. We are now selling silver jewelry from Orissa to raise some funds to try and help the last two maharis from the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, Orissa, who are aged and not looked after by much of anyone. To see what new images have been added checks the New Photographs section below. -- David
Bookstore
(02/02/05) Unfortunately, I've not kept up the log for the book store. Not only have we new books for sale, unlisted before, we are now offering Odissi silver jewelry. Soon Orissi dance bells, and flower crowns, will be added and more new dance books too. See what all is available at our Orissi Shop. Go there now.
New Photographs
(03/29/06) Wow! Lots of new pictures since I updated this section. The Gallery has a new structure. There are photos of Orissi musicians, our last performance, and now some patrachitra pictures of the Panchakanya (on the Mahari Repertoire page). I'll try and remember if anything else is new and put links here. Be sure and explore the gallery if you haven't lately.
(01/10/05) There is now a photo of the Taj Mahal in the photo gallery, and an image of Sashimani Mahari there also.
Working in Orissa
February 2006 was the most recent. See the the News page for more information. to see what we were doing
All the best from,
Ratna and David
Work in Progress
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