Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Odissi Dance

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Odissi Dance

The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Odissi Dance was started back in 1966 and the first recipient of the award was Kelucharan Mohapatra. In 2017, Sujata Mohapatra was awarded this award.

Year	Dancers of Odissi Dance	Year	Dancers of Odissi Dance
2009	Geeta Mahalik	1995	Raghunath Dutta
2008	Ramani Ranjan Jena	1994	Kumkum Mohanty
2007	Ranjana Gauhar	1992	D. N. Pattnaik
2006	Surendra Nath Jena	1987	Sonal Mansingh
2005	Durga Charan Ranbir	1986	Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi
2004	Durllav Chandra Singh	1985	Mayadhar Raut
2003	Hare Krishna Behera	1977	Deba Prasad Das
2002	Kiran Segal	1976	Sanjukta Panigrahi (Joint Award with Raghunath Panigrahi for Odissi music)
1999- 2000	Madhavi Mudgal, Minati Mishra	1970	Pankaj Charan Das
1997	Gangadhar Pradhan	1966	Kelucharan Mohapatra

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