Bijayani Satpathy’s Met Museum choreographies moved between the past and the present
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Bijayani Satpathy’s Met Museum choreographies moved between the past and the present

The Hindu  

Elegant in a monotone black angarkha and salwar, Bijayini Satpathy embodied the act of prayer with slow, suggestive movements, as she re-invented her style in ‘The Prayer’ at Chapter House at The Met Cloisters. This was one of the four original, site-specific choreographies collectively named ‘SimA - Thresholds’, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York in May 2022, where she was the artist-in-residence. Bijayini used the hand gestures and metaphors of Indian classical dance in this Kabir doha ‘Naino antar aav thu’ as the woman asks her beloved to ‘come into her eyes’. As ‘Doha’ transitioned from meditative to rhythmic and soulful to happy and profound, in a seamless flow of music and movement, Bijayini was eloquent with the new abstraction.

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