In ‘Dance of Shiva’,the story of Shiva’s and Saati’s life is seen through dancers' eyes.
In the first half of the ballet, the dancers and their relationships with one another take precedence, but by the second half their own very real and often violent emotions have become so mingled with the dance-drama being rehearsed that the fine line between life and myth gradually dissolves. Puranic myths are often horrific and fantastical, but no more so than life itself, as life creates myth and correspondingly, myth sustains life.
