Bhagaban Sahu was an Indian folk dancer, teacher and choreographer, known for codifying the folk dance forms of Odisha. He was born on 21 September 1914 at Ganjam in the Indian state of Odisha in a Brahmin family and took to folk dancing. He was credited with efforts to revive the traditional Odissi dance forms such as Baagh Naach (Tiger dance), Stilt dance, Jodi sankha, Laudi, Paika dance and Chadheia chadheiani. He taught the villagers about these dance forms and trained them on the art. He was the choreographer of the popular tiger dance sequence in the 1989 Bengali movie, Bagh Bahadur, directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta.
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