• Choreography: Aditi Mangaldas 
• Group Performance / Live Music
• Troupe: 7 - 13 dancers, 3 - 4 musicians and 2 Tech team members
• Duration: 1 Hour 10 Mins
• Premiere: India, 2007

SAMVET, the confluence of the five elements of nature that unite to form the whole, that coalesce in complete harmony. This balanced coming together awakens our senses and brings to us a sense of perfect equilibrium. Which invokes in our heart, mind, body and soul the feeling of everlasting bliss. SAMVET is in five parts, depicting the five elements.

EARTH: On this earth, we stand; unvanquished, unslain, unhurt.
WATER: As the rains arrive, I flow with it, into the rivers and oceans and into the depths of love.
AIR: Every whiff brings a message from you.
FIRE: Thou art strength. Grant us physical, mental and moral strength.
SPACE: We know not your vastness, neither your end, nor middle nor source…as we traverse the cosmos within the sparkling stars.

CREDITS

• Choreography: Aditi Mangaldas
• Concept: Rachana Yadav
• Music: Samiullah Khan (except WATER: extract from Footprints On Water- music composed by Shubha Mudgal |“water” bandish is a traditional bandish)
• Earth shlokas: Atharvaveda | Water bandish: Traditional bandish | Wind ghazal: Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Fire mantra: Taken from Veda Sadhanam compiled by Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharti | Space poetry: Ashutosh Dikshit
• Research: Rachana Yadav and Mahua Aggarwal