mirage

Mirage combines the movement vocabularies of Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance, along with spoken text, rhythmic syllables, and South Asian classical music, to explore themes of discrimination based on gender, mainstream stereotypes, and cultural expectations. The work is interested in finding the opposites: the irony that is present in putting one female form on the pedestal while trying to destroy the other, and allowing the two distinct movement languages, interspersed with stories, both personal and universal, to give voice to the contrast.  

Drawing from mythology, folklore, contemporary stories and nature, the work aims to be a tapestry of multiple stories from myth, history, and the present day, that are woven together.