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Dance

The World’s Oldest Language of Movement

In this shared reflection, Sneha Das, Aishmita Manna and Vedanta Dasgupta return to the restless body as the first language of faith, where, as William Blake reminds us, without contraries there is no progression, and movement holds ecstasy and dissent, surrender and subversion, crossing the boundaries between self and other, devotion and defiance, masculine and feminine, suggesting that long before we learned to divide the world, we had already begun to move through it.

Remembering Rukmini Devi

Thanks to Kathak exponent Ashimbandhu Bhattacharya and his team consisting of Avik Chaki and Subroto Pandit, rasikas got a glimpse of their excellent Kathak rendition.