Ramli Ibrahim Ends Multi-city Tour With Odissi Show In Delhi

By Shakir Husain

NEW DELHI, Oct 29 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's Odissi classical dance exponent Datuk Ramli Ibrahim and his Sutra Foundation troupe ended their multi-city India tour with a performance in New Delhi on Tuesday night.

They staged an Odissi production named "Radhe! Radhe!", which is inspired by folk traditions of Ganjam, a district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

Ramli said the Oct 24 to 28 tour, which included the cities of Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, reinforces India-Malaysia cultural interactions.

"Sutra Foundation has stood at the forefront of the artistic dialogue between Malaysia and India," he told Bernama.

Ramli said links between the Malay Peninsula and the Odisha region, once the kingdom of Kalinga, are historic and his Kuala Lumpur-based dance theatre seeks to rekindle them.

"Sutra's collaboration with Odisha is not just art, but the rekindling of an ancient cultural stream," he said.

-- BERNAMA