Muvva

EDITORIAL NARRATIVE

Sahiti has performed at Ravindra Bharathi since she was nine. We photographed her across two rehearsal days — not the performance, but the hours around it: the ankle bells being tied, the green room mirror, the long stillness before she walks on. Shot mostly wide open in stage-adjacent tungsten and whatever daylight the corridors offered.

“Most photographers shoot the costume. These are the first pictures that look like the dance.”