Mandala South Asian Performing Arts presents
Friday ,February20,2026-6:00 pm
Śiva Bhāva: Love, Care, and the Cosmos
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts presents
Friday ,February20,2026-6:00 pm
Indian
Performance
2 HoursRunning Time
Mandala Arts presents Śiva Bhāva, an intimate performance dedicated to dance and love.
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts opens its 11th season with the world premiere of Śiva Bhāva: Love, Care, and the Cosmos, an intimate performance of South Asian dance and music dedicated to dance and love. Performances take place February 20–22, 2026 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Chicago.
A fusion of three styles of South Asian classical dance—Bharatanatyam, Kathak, and Odissi— Śiva Bhāva explores how Shiva, a deity revered across South Asian spiritual practices, embodies both collective and individual expressions of love as conveyed through sacred art forms. This force is understood as both form and formlessness—as expansive as the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether), yet as intimate and personal as breathing. By invoking this divine energy, the program honors dance as a spiritual offering, an embodied experience, and a timeless expression of love.
A fusion of three styles of South Asian classical dance—Bharatanatyam, Kathak, and Odissi— Śiva Bhāva explores how Shiva, a deity revered across South Asian spiritual practices, embodies both collective and individual expressions of love as conveyed through sacred art forms. This force is understood as both form and formlessness—as expansive as the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether), yet as intimate and personal as breathing. By invoking this divine energy, the program honors dance as a spiritual offering, an embodied experience, and a timeless expression of love.
