Seher presents 'Samyukta'; a three-day music & dance festival bringing together four top-notch exponents of Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam on a single platform for the first time ever. In a novel concept of collaborative effort between classical vocalist and dancers, the festival will be held.

The participating artistes are Leela Samson, Priyadarsini Govind, T. M. Krishna and Bombay Jayashri.

Sanjeev Bhargava, Founder, Seher & Festival Director, Samyukta says: 'Samyukta literally means 'coming together of two different streams' and is based on the concept of jugalbandis. It is essentially a dialogue between Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam dance. There has been resistance from well known vocalists to accompany dancers live because they feel that there is a hierarchy involved and they don't want to be subservient to the dancers. Through Samyukta, we are attempting to establish an exchange and sharing of talent to inherently strengthen the visual and the aural aspect of a performance and in turn giving the rasikas an unparalleled experience. Also, through this fest, we want to portray that music and dance co-exist and complement each other beautifully.'

The festival begins with the resonant and mellifluous voice of T. M. Krishna along with Priyadarsini Govind's strong lines of abhinaya (art of expression). A strict adherent of classicism, T. M. Krishna (Carnatic vocalist) says, 'Samyukta is a wonderful concept. Till now, everyone saw dance and music as two separate things but through this festival, the audience will watch a conversation between our two forms of expressions that has never taken place before.'Echoes Priyadarsini Govind (Bharatanatyam danseuse): 'The idea is to showcase the visual aspect of music and the musical aspect of the dance.' The second day  will see Leela Samson, Director of the famed institution Kalakshetra from Chennai perform in concert with Bombay Jayashri's meditative music. Says Bombay Jayashri (Carnatic vocalist), 'We have seen jugalbandis earlier between different genres of music but in this fest, T.M Krishna and I will be singing the same genre of music together on the last day.' And as for the grand finale, Delhities will be in for a treat as all the four artistes will perform together in a never-seen before symphony of music and dance.