DANCE

Bijayini Satpathy: Dohā

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
7:00 PM

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$35
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OK I get it: you’re sick of my nattering about Indian Classical dance. But really, there’s nothing like it for its extreme precision of movement conveying waves of emotional and intellectual heat — but the heat is all deep down underneath: not repressed, no, just not overemphatic (but not prissy, either, as my beloved French Baroque can be). Anyway, Bijayini Satpathy is a leading exponent of the Eastern Indian Odissi style (notable to us music lovers for its unusual use of both Karnatic and Hindustani ragas).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The very Old Skool German at the Heidelberg Restaurant (the last Old Yorkville German Place standing) is really good.