Pravaha Dance Festival: From Experiences to Creations

An NCPA Presentation

Sankalan by Madhavi Mudgal & Troupe Grishma-Varsha-Shishir-Vasant by Vaibhav Arekar & Sankhya Dance Company 

(approx. 120 mins)

Madhavi Mudgal is an Indian classical dancer known for her Odissi dance style. She has won several awards, including the Sanskriti Award, the Padma Shri, the Orissa State Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Grande Medaille de la Ville by Govt. of France, the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, among many others. She is acclaimed worldwide for her deep insight into the art of choreography and premieres her new production for Pravaha Dance Festival, 2018.

Grishma-Varsha-Shishir-Vasant is a work of choreographed poetry where dancers paint an external frame of seasons as seen and experienced. From within them arises the personal stories of anger and conflict; of love and pain; of void and isolation and of hope and celebration.

Grishma– the summer fire burns the forest as the inner conflict devours the man.

Varsha – the parched earth yearns for the rainfall, just the lover yearns for her beloved.

Shishir – the nothingness in life is what remains when everything is scattered away.

Vasant – the ritual of life continues relentlessly bringing hope and happiness

Choreographed by Vaibhav Arekar
Designed by Sushant Jadhav

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