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| Rajika Puri and Dancers TAPASYA: Ascetic Power and Tales of the Ganges |
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is an evening of dances - and danced stories – on ascetics in mythology and in contemporary India, which unfolds in three acts: The Cosmic Lord - SHIVA The Celestial River- GANGA The Great Immersion - MAHA-KUMBHA Seven new interlinked works explore the power generated by asceticism as a physically manifest force –often called a ‘dance’ – described in ancient legends and embodied by modern day sadhus. They say this power created the universe; it caused the river Ganges to flow. Words spoken in ascetic ‘heat’ have irrevocable consequences. Included in the program is a ground-breaking form of danced story-telling developed by Rajika, in which dances that retell stories from India’s rich legacy of legends and myth are performed to a blend of traditional song, chants, and spoken rhythmic syllables, as well as a text in English. TAPASYA was inspired by Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas by Dr Sondra L. Hausner
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