New Delhi, March 12 -- A woman in a refugee camp in Gaza steps out of her tent amid a barrage of airstrikes. Buildings are razed, terrifying screams fill the air as she scrambles for cover. Once the bombing stops, she witnesses the devastation. Then she hears a child's cry and rescues her from beneath the piles of bodies. The woman comforts her with empty words: the mother's merely asleep, the brother is chasing butterflies of his dreams, and the sister has married into another land.

This is a heartwrenching scene from Lori, a solo by Aranyani Bhargav, a Bharatanatyam dancer and artistic director, Vyuti Dance Company. The performance is presented by Indian Dancers for Gaza's Children (IDGC), which Bhargav co-founded with Donovan Roebert,...