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| birth_place = Parikula, [[Puri district]], [[Odisha]]<br />
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| occupation = Classical Dancer<br />
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| awards = [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]], [[Padma Shri]]<br />
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'''Gangadhar Pradhan''' (10 July 1948 – 10 October 2010) was an Indian [[Odissi]] dancer.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Pradhan was born in Parikula, a village in [[Puri district]], [[Odisha]].<ref name=Express>{{cite news |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2010/oct/12/guru-gangadhar-pradhan-dead-194671.html |title=Guru Gangadhar Pradhan dead |newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]] |date=16 May 2012 |orig-date=12 October 2010 }}</ref><ref name=Narthaki>{{cite web |author=Kedar Mishra |url=http://www.narthaki.com/info/profiles/profl146.html |title=Living a dream and dreaming a life; Remembering Guru Gangadhar Pradhan |website=Narthaki |date=8 October 2012 }}</ref> He was a sickly baby; his father, Muralidhar Pradhan, a farmer, and mother, Dwitika Devi, whose previous children had died, dedicated him to Balunkeshwar, the presiding deity of the temple in the nearby village of Dimirisena.<ref name=IE>{{cite news |author=Debabrata Mohanty |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/end-of-a-dance-odyssey/698852/0 |title=End of a dance odyssey |newspaper=[[The Indian Express]] |date=18 October 2010 }}</ref> When he was six, he became a [[Gotipua]] dancer at the temple and discovered a vocation for dance. He later trained at [[Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya]]<ref name=IE/> in Odissi and in playing the [[mardala]], and accompanied [[Sanjukta Panigrahi]] as her co-dancer and percussionist.<ref name=Express/><ref name=Narthaki/> He was an accomplished choreographer.<ref name=Narthaki/><ref name=IE/><br />
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He founded Orissa Dance Academy in [[Bhubaneswar]] in 1975, and Konark Natya Mandap in [[Konark]] in 1986, and also established both the [[Konark Dance Festival]] (also in 1986) and the [[Dhauli]] dance festival (in 2001),<ref name=Express/><ref name=IE/> as well as several smaller dance festivals, and ran the Chitralekha Dance Academy Festival in Canada.<ref name=IE/> He was a past president of the Orissa [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]].<ref name=Express/> In his later years, he organised a project to document the folk dance styles of the state.<ref name=Narthaki/><br />
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==Personal life and death==<br />
Pradhan had a son and three daughters. In early 2010 he underwent an [[angioplasty]] at an [[Apollo Hospitals|Apollo hospital]] in Bhubaneswar, but he died on 10 October at the age of 62 after a [[cerebral haemorrhage]].<ref name=Express/><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
Pradhan was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from [[Utkal University]].<ref name=Express/> He was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] in 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm |title=Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Awards) |work=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] |access-date=21 April 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217185616/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archive-date=17 February 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> and the [[Padma Shri]] (Indian's fourth highest civilian award) in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php |title=Padmashri Awardees list |publisher=[[Government of India]] |access-date=21 April 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131221505/http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php |archive-date=31 January 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}<br />
{{Padma Award winners of Odisha}}<br />
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[[Category:1948 births]]<br />
[[Category:2010 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian dance teachers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian classical choreographers]]<br />
[[Category:Odissi dancers]]<br />
[[Category:People from Puri district]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<br />
[[Category:Dancers from Odisha]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian dancers]]<br />
[[Category:Teachers of Indian classical dance]]</div>JudithBehan6