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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Jaya Mehta
An Odissi dancer and international performer, Jaya Mehta celebrates the poetic resonance of life. For her, poems are the undercurrent of her creative process. She seeks poetry in life: the poetry of Indian classical dance, the poetry of Indian traditional painting and sculpture, the poetic quality of life. These poems are written in English, but emerge from her experience of Odissi dance abhinaya in the Guru Surendra Nath Jena style. This is her first volume of dance-poems. She lives and dances away in New Delhi with her husband and two children. Her poetry has been danced on stage in internaRead More...
The Poetic Saree
Books by Jaya Mehta
When dance is called poetry of the body, we see words becoming dance in Jaya’s poetry.’
Leo Spreksel, artistic director, Korzo, Netherlands
‘In these poems, the colours, images, elements, rhythm and the fl ow of nature, the spins, swirls and ecstatic movements of the dancer become the poem, in which the meaning is dance itself.’
H S Shivaprakash, Kannada poet and playwright
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