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 Kathak dance a series vignettes depicting what happens when human actions drive the five basic elements (“Panchabhuta”) that translates to the five elements which in Indian philosophy and Ayurveda, are considered the fundamental building blocks of the universe and the human body: 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
St. Catherine University
November 8-9, 2025
Tickets will be available soon!
2025 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 TBD at Hopkins High School. Learn more here.
Hopkins High School
2400 Royals Dr
Minnetonka, MN 55305
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 Kathak dance […]
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 Kathak dance […]
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 Kathak dance […]