Even when men dominated traditional Indian dance forms such as bharatanatyam and kathak, they spoke the same feminine language as the women: the darting eyes, eloquent wrists, tendriled arms, and finely jingling feet. No one achieves this hermaphroditic splendor like the young feline Indian-British dancer-choreographer Aakash Odedra. But for his latest creation (sponsored by the ubiquitous and discerning Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels), he is teaming up with an actual woman, veteran kathak soloist Aditi Mangaldas. Mehek (Fragrance) is a love story, though not between seductive Hindu gods and their long-suffering consorts, as is usual, but between artistic generations. While Odedra’s fusion of contemporary and traditional, Western and South Asian, can create a haze over the drama, Mangaldas’s participation should keep the language crisp. —Apollinaire Scherr