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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Nrityanjali returns with classic Divine Flute

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Nrityan­jali The­atre's pro­duc­tion for 2015 is a bal­let/dance dra­ma at Queen's Hall en­ti­tled The Di­vine Flute.

In as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ma­hat­ma Gand­hi In­sti­tute for Cul­tur­al Co-op­er­a­tion, this pre­sen­ta­tion, ded­i­cat­ed in de­vo­tion to the di­vine flute play­er Kr­ish­na, con­cen­trates on two main as­pects of Kr­ish­na, a re­lease said.

The first is the love be­tween Kr­ish­na and Rad­ha: Rad­ha's love sym­bol­is­es the soul's in­tense long­ing and will­ing­ness for the ul­ti­mate uni­fi­ca­tion with the di­vine. The sec­ond as­pect is Kr­ish­na of the Ma­hab­hara­ta who coun­sels us to "go out and fight" be­cause we have to do our dhar­ma (du­ty in life).

The Di­vine Flute is a sym­bol of man's ex­pe­ri­ence of spir­i­tu­al­i­ty through un­con­di­tion­al love, as por­trayed by the de­vo­tion of the gopis to Kr­ish­na's flute-play­ing. Lat­er in his life Kr­ish­na teach­es that spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is at­tained by car­ry­ing out your du­ty in life with­out ex­pec­ta­tions. The ul­ti­mate goal of life is to at­tain sal­va­tion – this is de­pict­ed by Kr­ish­na play­ing the flute with sev­en holes. The holes sym­bol­ise the sev­en chakras which must be awak­ened to at­tain eter­nal peace and hap­pi­ness as de­scribed in yo­ga.

The Di­vine Flute will be most­ly danced to live mu­sic with Dr Karn of the Ma­hat­ma Gand­hi In­sti­tute for Cul­tur­al Co-op­er­a­tion and Shri Prashant Patasar on per­cus­sion, Dr Shar­da Patasar on the sitar, pop­u­lar lo­cal singer Shri Rooplal Gird­harie and Sur­ja Chakra­vorty among the tal­ent­ed oth­ers. The ded­i­cat­ed dancers of Nrityan­jali–Denyse Mu­sai and Priya Ram­lakhan–will be lead­ing a cast of more than 20 dancers.

Nrityan­jali The­atre was award­ed the Hum­ming Bird Medal (Gold) for its con­tri­bu­tion to Cul­ture in 1993.


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