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{{Short description|Odissi dance teacher}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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|birth_place = Sajanapada, [[Nayagarh district|Nayagarh]], [[Odisha]]
|death_date = {{Death date |df=y|1979|03|14}}
|parents = Sanatan Das (father)
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|genre = [[Odissi]]
|occupation = Odissi dance teacher
|website = {{Official|https://gurudayanidhidas.com}}
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| spouse = Nishamani Das (m. 1955)
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'''Dayanidhi Das''' was an Odissi dance teacher from Odisha, India.<ref name="Sunday Post">{{cite news |last1=Swain |first1=Nigamananda |title=Untold story of Odissi |url=http://odishapostepaper.com/m/93024/5edbc8311fde0 |accessdate=8 February 2023 |work=OrrisaPost |issue=Sunday Post |date=7 Jun 2020 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20230208131435/http://odishapostepaper.com/m/93024/5edbc8311fde0 |archivedate=8 February 2023 |page=5 |language=English |url-status=live}}</ref> He was the first dance teacher in Kala Vikash Kendra, Cuttack established by [[Babulal Doshi]], where he was teaching Odissi and Kthak.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mohanty-Hejmadi |first=Priyambada |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.15883 |title=Kelucharan Mohapatra and the making of Odissi dance |date=2002 |publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=LITERARY AND CULTURAL SOCIETIES: Kala Vikash Kendra |url=https://gopabandhuacademy.gov.in/sites/default/files/old/CHAPTER-WISE/Cuttack/Cuttack_Chapter_12.pdf |journal=Cuttack Chapter |page=359}}</ref> In 1952-53 he documented the dance forms and mudras of Odissi in text format, which was taught at Kala Vikas Kendra as a syllabus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NAYAK |first=SUPRIYA |title=How patronage shaped Odissi |url=https://www.india-seminar.com/2022/753/753_SUPRIYA_NAYAK.htm |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=www.india-seminar.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Roebert |first=Donovan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UcoEAAAQBAJ&dq=odissi+dance+teacher+%22dayanidhi+das%22&pg=PA212 |title=Essays on Classical Indian Dance |date=2021-06-16 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-000-26069-4 |language=en}}</ref> He was following [[Gotipua]] tradition of Odissi dance.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sikand |first=Nandini |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu8lDAAAQBAJ&dq=odissi+dance+teacher+%22dayanidhi+das%22&pg=PA56 |title=Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances: The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance |date=2016-12-01 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-78533-369-9 |language=en}}</ref> He named the first part of Odissi dance as Mangalacharan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Article - The rise and fall of Jayantika - Ileana Citaristi |url=https://narthaki.com/info/articles/art443.html |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=narthaki.com}}</ref> He was the 1st secretary and founding member of [[Jayantika]], a community formed in 1955 to promote [[Odissi dance]] globally.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mohanty |first1=Nandita Priyadarshini |last2=Mohanty |first2=Pritish Kumar |date=1 November 2022 |title=A Review on Odissi Dance |url=http://magazines.odisha.gov.in/Orissareview/2022/Nov/engpdf/45-47.pdf |journal=Odisha Review |issue=November 2022 |pages=45,46,47}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of Odissi Dance |url=https://www.sahapedia.org/brief-history-odissi-dance |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=Sahapedia |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Citaristi |first=Ileana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2J6EAAAQBAJ&dq=odissi+dance+teacher+%22dayanidhi+das%22&pg=PT153 |title=Odissi and the Geeta Govinda |date=2022-10-06 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-78098-7 |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Das was born to Sanatan Das in Sajanapada village of Nayagarh district of Odisha. He enjoyed the street plays and theaters in the night throughout his childhood, learned to play the tabla and other instruments, and practised folk dancing at the expense of his academics, which irritated his father. Once the furious father beat him ruthlessly. When he was in class eleven, he fled his house out of pain and dread.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |title=Guru Dayanidhi Das |url=https://dokumen.tips/documents/nartanam-founded-by-kuchipudi-kala-kendra-mumbai-now-owned-and-published-by-sahrdaya.html?page=15 |journal=Nartanam |volume=XVIII |issue=July-September 2018 |page=15}}</ref>

He pursued further study while taking private tuition to support himself. From Nayagarh, he graduated from high school. After that, he relocated to Cuttack, where he thrived in the arts of dance, music, and tabla while pursuing his academic goals at Ravensha College.<ref name=":0" />

The [[National Music Association]] (NMA) and [[Utkal Sangeet Samaja]] were two well-known institutes in the realm of dance and music at the time. In NMA, he studied [[Kathak]] and [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani vocal music]]. Unfortunately, he was unable to complete his vocal music study, but he did receive the Nritya Pravakar in Kathak and Odissi from the [[Prayag Sangeet Samiti]] in [[Allahabad Kumbh Mela|Allahabad]]. He studied tabla under Radha Gobinda Ghose.<ref name=":0" />

== Filmography ==
* [[Lakshmi (1962 film)|Lakshmi]] - actor and dance choreographer

== Playwright ==
* Palli Sanje
* Bani Archana
* Anjulae Nataka
* Natika Chayana
* Amruta Santana
* Natya Sandhya
* Jayantika
* Sarala Chhabila Akshara Shiksha

== Personal life ==
He married Nishamani Das in 1955. His daughter Vijayalaxmi Das who works in preserving the legacy of her father.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(PDF) nartanam.in · Nartanam, founded by Kuchipudi Kala Kendra, Mumbai, now owned and published by Sahrdaya Arts Trust, Hyderabad, is a quarterly which provides a forum for scholarly dialogue |url=https://dokumen.tips/documents/nartanam-founded-by-kuchipudi-kala-kendra-mumbai-now-owned-and-published-by-sahrdaya.html |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=dokumen.tips |language=en}}</ref> On 14 March 1979 at the age 50, he died.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://gurudayanidhidas.com/}}
* {{IMDb name|nm6360639}}

[[Category:People from Odisha]]
[[Category:People from Nayagarh district]]
[[Category:Indian classical choreographers]]
[[Category:Odissi exponents]]

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