The departure of vibrant crafts on stones in Khajuraho and the splendor of Indian dance art, tourists from all over the world left for their villages and cities with a heavy heart.
On the last day of the Khajuraho Dance Festival, tourists enjoyed the festivities to the fullest. The performance of Gopika’s Mohini Attam, Arupa and her colleagues’ pe
rformance of Bharatanatyam, Odissi and Mohiniyattam was captured in her eyes, so the dance of Pushpita and her colleagues is also not going to leave her memories.
The last day of the 49th Khajuraho Dance Festival began with Mohiniyattam by Gopika Varma. Known as the cultural ambassador of India, Gopika begins her dance by praising Ganesha.
In this presentation named Chitrangam, he embodied the form of Ganesha with dance expressions. The next performance was also lovely. In this, Krishna and Rukmani are playing dice.
Rukmani tells Krishna that if I win this game, then you have to promise me that after today you will not touch any woman. You can only see them but cannot touch them. Krishna agrees to this.
Krishna looks into Rukmini’s eyes, Due to which she makes a mistake and loses. Gopika presented the feeling of this whole story by weaving it into dance expressions with great enthusiasm.
In the final presentation, the story of Krishna breaking the pride of Rukmani and Garuda was also put in front of the audience by Gopika in her dance expressions.
The second performance was of Bharatanatyam, Odissi and Mohiniattam dances by Arupa Lahiri and her companions.
This presentation of three styles of dance was unique. Arupa danced in Bharatanatyam, Lipsa Satpathy in Odissi and Divya Warrier in Mohini Attam style. The first performance by Arupa and his companions was dedicated to Lord Surya. Sun is the main source of energy. He presented the worship of the sun through dance in a very simple way. His second offering focused on work.
Work is one of the four goals of life. In the dance, Arupa and her companions presented the effects of sex with the expressions of makeup.
In the next presentation he explained how feminine energy and creativity flow. He ended the dance with Tillana. This presentation dedicated to the seven mothers was also unique.
The function ended with an Odissi dance by Pushpita Mishra and her colleagues. The detail of dance in Raga RV and Ektal was amazing.
The slow motion of the eyes, neck, trunk and legs increased rapidly as it reached the peak, a unique tapestry of rhythm and speed was created. Pushpita’s next presentation was Udbodhan.
It was an expressive presentation decorated in Raag Taal Malika, in which on ‘Tung Shikhari Chuda’, he described the splendor of Odisha’s culture, forests, mountains etc. with dance expressions.
The choreography in the entire performance was Pushpita Mishra’s, while the music was composed by Vikas Shukla. , Guru Satchidananda Das and Nimkant Routkar, and Shriram Chandra Behera.
