Sutra Dance Theatre’s newest Odissi production for 2025 is themed on Radha, the passionate and cherished beloved of the pastoral god Krishna. Radha embodies hladini shakti, the essence of Joy and Happiness within the essential spirit and Maya of Krishna. The ecstatic love between the enigmatic Radha, the chosen gopi, and the rather ‘incorrigible’ but irresistible Krishna, has sparked inexhaustible medieval literature. Radha demands absolute devotion from her lover Krishna, whose attention is easily distracted by the adoration lavished on him by other Gopis. Radha represents the individual soul who feels incomplete if separated from the source of its energy and raison d’etre – the Universal Spirit Incarnate, who is Krishna himself.