Amrita ke Raqs
The painted worlds of Amrita Sher-Gil and the verse of Amrita Pritam, given to movement.
10 August 2026
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Two women named Amrita,
one language of the body.
Two figures shaped how a young India imagined itself — one with a brush, one with a pen. Amrita ke Raqs gathers their canvases and couplets and lets them breathe again through the grammar of Kathak: the spin, the stillness, the struck heel.
Conceived and choreographed by Raman, the evening moves between paint and poem — a single dancer carrying two lives that never met, and somehow always rhymed.
She painted Indian women as she saw them — grave, interior, luminous. Her colour and her silence become the visual world the dance steps into.
Her verse held partition, longing and a fierce tenderness. Her words give the choreography its breath, its pauses, its ache.
"She painted what could not be said. She wrote what could not be painted. We dance what neither could hold still."
Raman
A Kathak dancer based in Delhi, Raman has spent two decades inside the form — its tatkar, its storytelling, its devotional root — and as many years pushing at its edges, asking what classical dance can hold of modern Indian art and writing.
She founded KathakReet, an art collective where Kathak meets literature, painting and live music — staging original work that treats tradition as a living conversation, not a museum.
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Spend an afternoon inside the form. Raman opens her studio for an intimate masterclass — tatkar and footwork, the geometry of the spin, and the expressive language of abhinaya. Open to absolute beginners and practitioners alike.
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"Raman doesn't perform tradition — she converses with it. You leave having seen something genuinely new."
"A rare evening where painting, poetry and Kathak speak the same breath. Quietly unforgettable."
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