27.09.2026 Special Guest Performance: Pritam Das

One of India’s acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancers and choreographers, Pritam Das, is coming to SHD/ for a special one-time performance of his latest work, Anurāgāvali: The Dance of Longing.
With only a limited number of seats, this is a rare opportunity to experience Bharatanatyam up close in the intimate setting of the studio.

The following day, Pritam will share his practice in a workshop for Bharatanatyam dance lovers and experienced dancers.

About the Show

Anurāgāvali is a fourfold solo Bharatanatyam Dance Recital with recorded music. It is an exploration of longing—not as an absence, but as a sacred presence that shapes love, devotion and becoming. It dwells in the spaces between meeting and separation, desire and surrender, the mortal and the divine. 

Weaving together diverse poetic voices this work journeys through the many landscapes of anurāga. It embraces the aching love of Rādhā for Krishṇa, the devotee's yearning for his Ishta Devata, the tenderness of friendship, and the quiet call of the soul towards the eternal. 

Each composition offers a distinct emotional world, revealing longing as profoundly universal. Anurāgāvali unfolds as a garland of emotional landscapes, inviting the audience to experience longing in its myriad forms—earthly and divine, intimate and cosmic—where every path of love ultimately leads inward, and every inward journey becomes a return to the Divine.

About the Artist

Pritam Das is an acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer known for his exceptional physical agility, rhythmic precision, nuanced abhinaya, innate grace and compelling stage presence. Born and trained in Kolkata, he began his training under Smt. Jayita Ghosh and Sri Samrat Dutta and is currently under the advanced tutelage of Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Smt. Rama Vaidyanathan in New Delhi. He has also trained in Odissi at Geetobani, Kolkata.

His artistry has received appreciation from leading critics. Leela Venkataraman described him as an “exceptionally endowed dancer,” noting his “inbuilt feel for the fractional intervals of a tala” and concluding, “A dancer to watch out for!” V. Kaladharan praised his “sheer mastery over angikabhinaya” and his “thanmayee bhava,” noting his profound rapport with the audience. Sruti described him as a “gifted artist,” praising the combination of “grace and vigour” in his dancing and the “mathematical precision” of his rhythmic execution. Anita Vallabh, in Global Indian Artist, titled her review “A Star on the Rise,” highlighting his “imaginative and performative depth,” expressive range, characterisation and artistic honesty.