Produced with Esha for a dance performance at Canberra Theatre on the occasion of Lunar New Year: Beneath the Tiger Moon.

Esha and I wanted to make a performance that could begin to describe and explore the deep spiritual connection that dance brings into physical space. Intersections between Esha, the various ways she is positioned, by others and by herself; as a woman, as Bengali, and through a deep relationship to dancehall. Dance has always been a vessel and a vehicle of culture, and connection to what existed before - to the eternal. Cultures inherited in traceable and untraceable ways, crystallised in a moment of movement that seems as though it never started or ended: but was entered ans held instead, for a moment.

Manush (Dance performance by Esha)

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