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
Navina Jafa: June 6
Chandrabanu: June 8
Vandana Supriya Kasaravalli: June 9
Malavika Sarukkai: June 15
Victor Paulraj: June 16
Madhuri Upadhya: June 17
Sudha Raghuraman: June 17
Sunanda Nair: June 18
Keerthana Ravi: June 18
Rajkumar Bharati: June 24
Sujata Mohapatra: June 26
Ayswaria Wariar: June 29
QUOTE
Dance has been my safe space when I'm depressed and going through a
hard time, and my place of celebration and joy in the good times.
- Afra Hines, Broadway performer
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