Folk Arts of Odisha

Hundreds of indigenous performing art traditions of Odisha are dying a slow death each day. This project aims to create comprehensive digital and audio-visual documentation of extant performances that is freely accessible by the public, translated into English to expand its audience and supplemented by extensive research material.


This is a part of project Pothi.

Pothi is a project to create comprehensive digital documentation of critically endangered cultural elements


Prahallada Nataka
Ganjam
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Bharata Lila
Ganjam
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Sahi Jata
Puri
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Janughantia
South Odisha, especially Mahendragiri
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Kendera / Natha Jogis
All of Odisha
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Mogul Tamsa
Bhadrak
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Chhau
Mayurbhanj
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Ghoda Nacha
mostly Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur & Puri districts
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