A solo work performed and choreographed by 2024 Guggenheim Fellow Hari Krishnan, representing the Karnatak (South Indian classical music) tradition, and accompanied by four musicians. Love Songs is a performance and interactive lecture-demonstration that explores poetic and progressive ways of embodying love, sexuality, and eroticism in Bharatanatyam dance.

Artists:
Hari Krishnan, choreographer and dancer
Professor Davesh Soneji, conductor and rhythmic vocalist  
Vaaraki Wijayaraj, vocalist  
Kajajeyan Pararasasegaram, mridangam 
Mithuran Manogaran, violinist 
Rex (Rajavairan Rajendran), costume & visual design

Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series, with support in part by the Birendra K. and Anila Sinha Fund for Indian Performing Arts at International House.

Free admission