I do not love you with my heart and mind,
I love you with my soul,
In case my mind forgets and my heart stops.
- Rumi
May was a series of immensely theatrical spectacles. And none were about dance!
I will, of course, blend my month of observations and reflections into
our world of dance, but not before casting a wider lens on the very idea
of PERFORMITIVITY that has permeated every sphere of our waking
moments.
I begin by converging the three grand events of Fashion, Sports and
Politics. While they may represent entirely different worlds, in May,
all three genres demonstrated a remarkable convergence of productivity,
performance, precision and theatricality. Each became a grand stage
where discipline and spectacle fused in ways that rivalled the dazzle of
Broadway and the excesses of Las Vegas and Bollywood.
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BIRTHDAY WISHES
Ayswaria Wariar: June 29
G Venu: July 1
Deepa Narayanan Sashindran: July 3
Srekala Bharath: July 4
Narthaki Nataraj: July 6
Kalamandalam Venkitt: July 7
Subhajit Khush Das: July 9
Anitha Guha: July 10
Lynne Fernandez: July 10
Divya Kasturi: July 12
Sandhya Raman: July 13
Puru Dhadeech: July 17
Rama Vaidyanathan: July 17
D Keshava: July 18
Sharon Lowen: July 24
Sunayana Hazarilal: July 28
Akram Khan: July 29
QUOTE
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton
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