Guru Sharon Lowen
Sharon Lowen is an Odissi dancer, trained since 1975 by Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She has performed and choreographed for film and television and presented
hundreds of concerts throughout India, North America, Asia, Africa, the United Kingdom. and the Middle East. [1] [2] Sharon came to India in 1973 after degrees
in Humanities, Fine Arts, Asian Studies and Dance from the University of Michigan as a Fulbright Scholar to study Manipuri and later Chhau and Odissi.
Sharon Lowen has dedicated her life to presenting and promoting excellence in Indian performing arts.
Sharon is hailed today as one of the leading international performing artists of three forms of Indian dance: Odissi, Chhau and Manipuri.
Sharon has made her home in India since 1973 to dedicate herself to her work as an artist and to promote education in the arts.
Her accomplishment in a place where foreign exponents of indigenous dance forms are rarely taken seriously.
But once Lowen came to India 25 years ago and devoted herself to Indian classical dance, her tenacity and perfectionism
have earned the respect of audiences and critics alike in her adopted country.
She portrayed a real life character in Indian Cinema, in a Telugu film - Swarnakamalam which means "Golden Lotus".
The film was directed by Dr.K.Viswanath. In the film she over-looks the lead actress public dancing performance and gets
disturbed by the way she loses her focus on dance and involved in other things like posing for a photographer, etc. and the next day
Sharon Lowen performs an Odissi dance and mesmerizes the audience in the film.
