Bharatanatyam In The Wild

A video project that is taking a classical dance form to unconventional settings and is produced with minimal equipment to surprising effect. Bharatanatyam In The Wild claims for classical dance an everywhere-ness and an everyday-ness. We want to raise Bharatanatyam off of its hallowed stage, usher it out of its venerated auditoriums and shear it of some of its opaque glamour. The videos are in the non-narrative mode of cinema, each a short experimental dancefilm, a moment of rupture. And somewhere along the way, we - a group of women - also try to claim public spaces. 

Created by Aishwarya Kali and Priyanka Kali
Dancers - Swathi Gangadharan and Tirna Sengupta