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Photograph from the back of a seated audience facing a stage in a hall with red drapes and a grey backdrop. Two dancers in pink and orange costumes perform on stage under spotlights, one with arms raised. A trident leans beside a carved wooden chair with a golden back at stage left. Musicians sit on a raised platform at right, one in a pink shirt playing a drum. A cameraperson in a white dhoti stands at right, and a camera on a tripod is set up near the stage. Audience members in white ritual clothes, with rudraksha malas, sit in rows in the foreground. No person is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance.

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