The award winning Natya Dance Theater, performed The Seventh Love at the Harris Theater.  The Seventh Love is an appealing show for all ages, spanning different continents of culture, through Bharata Natyam dance from one of the most established traditional Indian dance companies in the United States.  The style originating in Southern India, the Bhrata Natyam, is a graceful and subtle dance, expressing the dancers’ emotions and surroundings through the expression of their hands, of their faces and the timing of the bells chiming to the stamps of their feet. 

The Seventh Love, explores some of the deeds of Krishna and his belief in the different loves.  Embedded within the traditional Indian stories of Krishna, we are also able to apply these lessons through the eyes of the King (David Kersnar, also the writer and director) requesting the wisdom of his wise and knowing Sage.  The Sage, Krithika Rajagopalan (Natya Associate Artistic Director & Principal Dancer) works with the King on how to fill the void in his heart since he has lost a recent love.  The two make a compelling and dynamic pair, effortlessly flowing from current difficulties in finding love, to keeping love, earning love and at most accepting oneself in order to be able to love.

The hour and a half show moves quickly, with bright and bold colors, heart beating music and beautifully times dancers intricately weaving patterns of movement telling stories within their tableaus and with each hand gesture and heeled ring of a bell.

The Seventh Love is a show that leaves you appreciating the beauty of love, culture and how we can all speak the same language, no matter the age, or cultural heritage.  This is an experience not to be missed, but absorbed.

 The award winning Natya Dance Theater, performed The Seventh Love at the Harris Theater.  The Seventh Love is an appealing show for all ages, spanning different continents of culture, through Bharata Natyam dance from one of the most established traditional Indian dance companies in the United States.  The style originating in Southern India, the Bhrata Natyam, is a graceful and subtle dance, expressing the dancers’ emotions and surroundings through the expression of their hands, of their faces and the timing of the bells chiming to the stamps of their feet. 

The Seventh Love, explores some of the deeds of Krishna and his belief in the different loves.  Embedded within the traditional Indian stories of Krishna, we are also able to apply these lessons through the eyes of the King (David Kersnar, also the writer and director) requesting the wisdom of his wise and knowing Sage.  The Sage, Krithika Rajagopalan (Natya Associate Artistic Director & Principal Dancer) works with the King on how to fill the void in his heart since he has lost a recent love.  The two make a compelling and dynamic pair, effortlessly flowing from current difficulties in finding love, to keeping love, earning love and at most accepting oneself in order to be able to love.

The hour and a half show moves quickly, with bright and bold colors, heart beating music and beautifully times dancers intricately weaving patterns of movement telling stories within their tableaus and with each hand gesture and heeled ring of a bell.

The Seventh Love is a show that leaves you appreciating the beauty of love, culture and how we can all speak the same language, no matter the age, or cultural heritage.  This is an experience not to be missed, but absorbed.

For more information on this wonderful dance company, Visit  http://www.natya.com/.

*Above photo by Amitava Sarkar