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Sunday, April 29, 2012
From left, Rupak Parida, Bijaya Barik, Surmani Ramesh Chandra Das, and Jabahar Mishra pray with dancer Shibani Patnaik applies before performing 'Samsara, The Cycle of Life', a music and dance performance, at the Rainier Valley Cultural Arts Center Sunday April 29, 2012. Odissi is a traditional form of dance from Orissa, in Eastern India. Patnaik and the musicians, from Orissa, India, are on a 14-show tour across the U.S. for the next several weeks. The Oriyas of Greater Seattle, a cultural group from Orissa, brought them here to perform.
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