Ashtapadi Gita Govinda - Lalita lavanga (Odissi Dance by Namrata Mehta)

Vasanta as spring is universally acknowledged as the season of love and longing. This Ashtapadi…Lalita Lavang lata parishilana, Komal Malaya Samire….
Describes the mood of those separated from their loved ones in spring time when Krishna the eternal lover is seen celebrating the season with many young maidens.
Soft Malaya wind passing the clove creepers and the grove is filled with the cooing of the cuckoos inter mingled with the swarms of bees, spring evokes the mood of wanting to unite with the loved ones.

Choreography: Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra
Music Composition: Pt Bhubaneswar Mishra

Dance in Solitude... beyond the stage series is my effort to make an archival memory of my time spent in lockdown on learning, revising, polishing and also teaching few of the old and new choreographies by Masters.

Time has been a gift in this lockdown and my way of making the most of it is by working on every aspect of these choreographies once again.

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