'Durga' - Colleena Shakti - Contemporary Mythic Body Explorations: 2025

DURGA ~
In this evocative cinematic collaboration, Colleena Shakti—visionary dancer, cultural bridge-builder, and devoted traditionalist—invites you into a world where ancient lineage and contemporary expression converge. Vikas Shrivastava (Iron Eye Creations) weaves her breaths of tradition and pulses of innovation in this dance film shot at Colleena's dance school located in an 18th century Krishna Temple in Pushkar, Rajasthan.

With decades of immersive training in India, Colleena carries the refined grace of Classical Odissi dance, the precision of Kalaripayattu martial arts, and the nuanced storytelling of Sanskrit abhinaya (theater). From this rooted foundation, she channels a movement language that is both visceral and transcendent—embodied wisdom flowing through the present moment.
"Durga" offers traces of the rich, global landscape of form and feeling that Colleena's dance and life story has occupied — a space where Odissi, Raqs Sharqi, Tribal Fusion Bellydance, Central Asian, Flamenco, Rajasthani, Kathak, and Contemporary dance traditions seamlessly intertwine. The result in this alchemical fusion is a deeply disciplined, yet wildly alive style unique to Colleena. This is not just a dance. It is a ritual, a reclamation and offering.

COLLEENA SHAKTI:
www.ColleenaShakti.com

VIKAS SHRIVASTAVA:
https://ironeyecreations.art/