Shiva

SHIVA consists of two parts. The first half of the performance has the story of Shiva and Sati’s love shared through the course of a Traditional Varnam. The second half of the performance breaks down the emotive content to pure physicality and an inferred narrative that is not literal.

Both of these pieces approach the same content from completely different perspectives. The traditional work addresses the spiritual underlying meaning of Shiva and Parvati’s relationship. The 2nd one addresses the human emotion that we attribute to shiva and parvati

The performance utilizes the classical vocabulary of Bharatanatyam throughout the performance, but the context of usage is very different in the two halves. The same topic is explored through two very different and often opposing ideas of creation and presentation.