The Village Voice, February 27th, 2008
Nritvagram Dance Ensemble
Joyce Theater
February 19 through 24
Will Krishna Come?
Male and female join in one dancing body
In Orissa, on India's east coast, temple carvings show deities entwined in elaborate erotic poses. Odissi, the dance form that once enlivened those temples, embeds that sensuality in the body of the individual performer. In Nrityagram's Praarambha, the hymn of creation, the four women onstage, bathed in golden light, settle into the traditional stance, their knees turned out and deeply bent, their bodies draping into S-shaped curves. As they stamp and turn, tihey whee...
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