When life imitates art during pandemic

Dancer Methil Devika was down with COVID-19 while working on production on ‘solitude’

Life imitates art. Methil Devika found that out recently, the hard way. The accomplished Mohiniyattam dancer had come down with COVID-19 and was hospitalised for a few days. And this happened at a time when she was working on an international project titled ‘Ahalya’ on the theme of ‘solitude’ imposed by the pandemic. Devika is one of the four Indian dancers commissioned by the Canada-based Sampradaya to make productions on the theme. Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam), Aditi Mangaldas (Kathak) and Bijayini Satpathy (Odissi) are the others.