Archive - Dance Meets Life.

My Pantless Life

It's been 8 years since I wore pants. And there's a story behind it.

Jul 24, 2024 •

How an ancient classical dance showed me ways to accept my perfect hair.

Jul 10, 2024 •

December 2023

Illuminating Sisyphus

Watching lovers, handholding, KDrama and an ancient verse Indian classical dancers live by.

Dec 31, 2023 •

September 2023

As a dancer, I know my feet from the inside: I can move on only toe mounds or heels. I know how to make music with them. But my feet, from the outside…

Sep 18, 2023 •

March 2023

The ordinarification of profound things

I do not allow myself to feel sad in everyday life; but in the theatre I cry freely. The grief I have held back over the decades, finds a way to leak…

Mar 20, 2023 •

January 2023

XYZ is an emotion

Everybody in the world is out to touch the oldest part of you; this is what stories, brands, regimes, toxic partners set out to do

Jan 27, 2023 •

August 2022

Waking the Sleeping Giants

Our modern world is built on efficiency, sameness, routine; it demeans the world of feeling-our-feelings as too great a price to pay. Art builds a world…

Aug 1, 2022 •

July 2022

A Dancer’s Purpose

On a strange and fine day, a line came to me amidst the tangle of woolskein-thoughts in my head: There are two things that make sense of the world…

Jul 16, 2022 •

June 2022

the forgotten pleasures of finitude

We are a culture in love with infinity. We want ever-expanding horizons; a world of abundance and plenitude, where we never run out of inspiration. In…

Jun 20, 2022 •

the poetry of male beauty

It's not as if there are no beautiful men outside Odissi; it's just that I was never given the language to describe them

Jun 18, 2022 •

This Radha is beyond my understanding

When I dance this dance, I smile too, because this is nothing like the ideas of romantic love between a man and a woman - that evergreen trope I grew up…

Jun 16, 2022 •

These listicles called ancient dance treatises

We all need to whittle the madness of our (dance) world down to manageable numbers. That doesn't mean that our world is just that finite; it merely…

Jun 15, 2022 •

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