The raslila or the ras dance is part of  a traditional story described in  Hindu texts such as the Bhagavat  Purana and the Gita Govinda where Lord Krishna dances with Radha and the gopis.

There is a male and female dancer on stage, having their back turned towards the audience. The female dancer is wearing a red and golden lehenga (a three-piece ensemble consisting of the actual lehenga, a long ankle-length skirt, a well-fitted blouse top known as the choli, and a scarf to drape around the outfit, known as the dupatta) and the male dancer is wearing a red top, yellow dhoti and a matching yellow pitambara draped across the left shoulder.

After a couple of movements swaying their right and left arms and body alternatively to the right and left direction, both of them turn around. The male dancer adorns a peacock feather on his head, denoting Lord Krishna and the female dancer denotes Radha.

Both of them sway their right and left arms along with their bodies to the front left corner of the stage and perform repeated up and down swaying of their right arms, having the right sides of their bodies turned towards the audience.

They then turn forward, sway both their arms up and down in a swimming movement and rest their left hand across their right arm, which is held in an upward position, framing their faces.

They move to their right and left swaying each hand upwards to the respective sides and stand with their left side facing the audience, left feet kept forward, balancing their bodies on their right foot and left toes, their right hands drawing the shapes of their right eyes near the eyes, with the fore finger and middle finger of their right hands. 

They face the audience and move right and left four times with their right hands held up and forefingers pointed upwards and drawing circles in the air.

They sway their bodies four times in a flowing movement from top to bottom, holding an imaginary flute on their hands.

They jump through the right, turning their bodies backwards and coming back through the same direction, bringing their right hand energetically from top to bottom while turning backwards and vice-versa. This step is repeated four times.

As the song changes, both of them turn to their left and move their right hand and right leg together towards the front and back four times.

The male dancer swiftly moves behind the female dancer, making only the whole figure of the female dancer visible to the audience. 

The female dancer keeps her hands in an alapadma mudra (a fully opened lotus) and opens her arms at a 35 degree angle outwards four times, while the male dancer, who stand hidden behind the female dancer, simultaneously opens his arms outwards, his hands in the same mudra, at an 85 degree angle. This gives the audience the amusement of seeing the female dancer perform with four arms. After repeating this four times, the song changes.

The male dancer ‘Krishna’ tries to reach out and touch ‘Radha’, standing on his left side, while she pushes him away. 

When ‘Madhuban’ song begins, Radha taunts Krishna for meeting the gopis, smiling at them, teasing them and talking to them, making her jealous, while Krishna circles in rhythm trying to pacify her. 

Both of them open their arms wide and close it, shaking their hips in tandem with the beat. Radha takes four running steps towards her left while Krishna follows and pauses and shows the gesture of how fire burns in her body and soul by keeping all her ten fingers wide open and bringing her hands from bottom to top and rotates in her places, repeating the step twice. Krishna makes graceful rhythmic movements throughout watching Radha dance. 

Radha circles four times while Krishna somersaults twice and changes sides with Radha.
Krishna opens his arms towards Radha asking that even if he meets gopis in the gardens, it is only the flower of Radha that blossoms in his heart and why should she be jealous, while Radha sits down on her knees, listening to Krishna’s words, moving her body with the rhythmic beats. 

Radha stands up and dances in sync with Krishna, taking one leap towards each other and another away from each other, facing the audience and swaying their bodies to the right and left in sync and then moving to their left side by facing the left and throwing their arms in circular motions.