New Delhi: Kuala Lumpur-based Sutra Foundation dancers performed at the acclaimed Delhi International Arts Festival (DIAF).
It was the group’s first show in the Indian capital in five years, led by Datuk Ramli Ibrahim, a representative of Odissi classical dance.
On Thursdays and Fridays, near the iconic India Gate in central Delhi, they will showcase Sutra’s new Odissi piece ‘Jaya Ram’, a joint project with Indian Odissi expert Gajendra Kumar Panda. announced.
Ramli said that while “Jaya Ram” is not a dance drama based on the Hindu epic Ramayana, it is “a collage of energies in which recognizable Ramayana characters make familiar doorways, referencing highlights from Ramayana episodes. ‘, he said.
The closing ceremony of the festival was attended by Indian Foreign Minister Meenakshi Reki.
Ramli presented the minister with a copy of the Sutra Foundation’s ‘The Kumbh Mela’, a 196-page coffee table book inspired by the Kumbh religious congregation of North India in 2019. – Bernama
