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A female dancer performs on a red stage in front of an ornate gold-painted stage backdrop with carved arches, lattice panels and a row of carved horses along the lower walls. She wears a maroon and orange silk saree in traditional Bharatanatyam-style draping, with a gold waist belt, gold bangles, a necklace and a jasmine-style hair ornament. She raises a brass kalasha-like vessel high above her head with one hand while holding a small lamp or vessel at her waist with the other, with smoke or incense rising from it. Her bare feet are planted in a dance stance. A purple curtain is visible at the top left.

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