Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
We’re pleased to be debuting the full-length production in Minnesota after its world premiere in Wisconsin earlier this year!
Nature’s Revenge portrays through a series of breathtaking Kathak vignettes what happens when human actions drive the five basic elements (“Panchabhuta,” or the five elements that are considered the fundamental building blocks of the universe and the human body in Indian philosophy and Ayurveda: earth, water, fire, air, and space) out of sync, and how we can work together to bring them back into harmony.
Featuring new and expanded choreography by KDT Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi and music composed by Pandit Birju Maharaj, Rajeev Chakraborty and Jayanta Banerjee, the show will be in keeping with KDT’s mission to propel the Kathak tradition into genre-bending spaces.
The O’Shaughnessy at
St. Catherine University
2004 Randolph Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105
November 8-9, 2025
Tickets are available here!
2025-26 tour dates TBD.
Sadhana (a Sanskrit word translated as “methodical discipline to attain desired knowledge”) Is Our Annual Student Showcase
Join us for Sadhana, our annual school showcase, as we celebrate a year’s worth of hard work by our dedicated students!
Sadhana 2026 will take place on a date and venue TBD. Learn more about the annual event here.
Katha Dance Theatre seeks to engage the local community with cross-cultural workshops and performances.
All KDT repertory works are choreographed or co-choreographed by Rita Mustaphi, who founded the Company in 1987. One of Rita’s aims in founding KDT was to embrace the duality of traditional and contemporary. Accordingly, her choreographic works preserve the Kathak tradition, ensuring its enduring legacy, while also building on that legacy by incorporating cross-cultural influences and diverse collaborations.
Chandalika is an examination of the marginalized women, “untouchables,” idealists and dreamers found throughout history in any society. It is a story of discrimination, a story of intense spiritual conflict, a story of self-confidence and self-respect, a story of love and salvation, and a story of selfishness and self- realization.
Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge! We’re pleased to be debuting the full-length production in Minnesota after its world premiere in Wisconsin earlier this year! Nature’s Revenge portrays through a series […]
Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge! We’re pleased to be debuting the full-length production in Minnesota after its world premiere in Wisconsin earlier this year! Nature’s Revenge portrays through a series […]
Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge! We’re pleased to be debuting the full-length production in Minnesota after its world premiere in Wisconsin earlier this year! Nature’s Revenge portrays through a series […]