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‘Bhakti’ Brings India’s Mystic Poetry to Mumbai Through Dance
“Bhakti: A Shared Longing” is a dance show about devotion and spiritual ideas from India.
It will be performed in Mumbai on September 3 and 4.
Mayuri Upadhya and Madhuri Upadhya co-choreographed the show.
Dancers use contemporary, classical and folk styles.
The show also includes music, visual images and theatre.
It draws inspiration from poets and saints such as Meera, Kabir, Lal Ded and Amir Khusrow.
Instead of telling each person’s story separately, it joins their ideas into one journey.
The journey is about finding unity, compassion and understanding oneself.
“Bhakti: A Shared Longing” will be staged in Mumbai on September 3 and 4.
The 75-minute dance-theatre production is co-choreographed by Mayuri Upadhya and Madhuri Upadhya.
It combines contemporary, classical and folk movement with visual poetry, music and dramatic imagery.
The production draws on verses and philosophies associated with 13 mystic saints and poets.
Its central themes include devotion, compassion, self-realisation and the search for oneness.
- Who
- Nritarutya Dance Company, co-choreographers Mayuri Upadhya and Madhuri Upadhya, and an ensemble of dancers and musicians.
- What
- A 75-minute immersive dance-theatre production titled “Bhakti: A Shared Longing.”
- Where
- The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai.
- When
- September 3 and 4; the articles do not specify the year.
- Why
- To explore India’s Bhakti tradition and its themes of devotion, oneness, compassion and self-realisation through dance.
Key facts
- Production
- “Bhakti: A Shared Longing”
- Duration
- 75 minutes
- Venue
- The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre
- Location
- Mumbai
- Choreographers
- Mayuri Upadhya and Madhuri Upadhya
- Source tradition
- India’s Bhakti tradition
- Movement styles
- Contemporary, classical and folk
Quotes
Mayuri Upadhya
Co-choreographer and co-founder of Nritarutya Dance Company
“Transcendence and unification — the universal search for oneness, are at the core of Bhakti poetry and we have strived to incorporate these values in the choreography because, for us, roots and wings are equally important.”
theprint.in
“It explores the many shades of devotion and inner awakening via spiritually charged contemporary dance and cross-idiomatic choreography.”
theprint.in
Sources
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