Anurāgāvali: The Dance of Longing (Classical Indian Dance by Pritam Das)

Concept, Choreography and Performed by Pritam Das

Anurāgāvali is a fourfold solo Bharatanatyam Dance Recital with recorded music. It is an exploration of longing—not as an absence, but as a sacred presence that shapes love, devotion and becoming. It dwells in the spaces between meeting and separation, desire and surrender, the mortal and the divine.

Weaving together diverse poetic voices this work journeys through the many landscapes of anurāga. It embraces the aching love of Rādhā for Krishṇa, the devotee's yearning for his Ishta Devata, the tenderness of friendship, and the quiet call of the soul towards the eternal.

Each composition offers a distinct emotional world, revealing longing as profoundly universal. Anurāgāvali unfolds as a garland of emotional landscapes, inviting the audience to experience longing in its myriad forms—earthly and divine, intimate and cosmic—where every path of love ultimately leads inward, and every inward journey becomes a return to the Divine.

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