The Spring 2021 season of premieres commissioned by BAC includes a series of live-streamed talks with the artists about their projects and creative processes.
In conjunction with the premiere of Vibhanga, her first choreographic endeavor, classical Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy talks with the influential choreographer Mark Morris.
Morris – a devotee of Indian classical music and dance – considers the former principal of Nrityagram Dance Ensemble “easily among the top five dancers I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.”
Vibhanga is available to watch free, on demand February 1–15, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.
BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.
Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.
As of January, 2021.
Feb 10, 2021, Live on ZOOM: In conjunction with the premiere of Vibhanga, her first choreographic endeavor, classical Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy spoke with the influential choreographer Mark Morris – a devotee of Indian classical music and dance.

Bijayini Satpathy
Bijayini Satpathy’s passion for Odissi was first groomed in Orissa and later honed in the famed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble after she was selected in an audition by the late founder, Protima Gauri, and became the solo debutant in 1997.

Mark Morris
Mark Morris, praised as “the most successful and influential choreographer alive, and indisputably the most musical” (New York Times), was born on August 29, 1956, in Seattle, Washington, where he studied with Verla Flowers and Perry Brunson.
Photos: Mahesh Bhat, Beowulf Sheehan