ONE

“a milestone moment for kathak….has moved the form forward … extraordinary dancer who has important things to say”. Pulse Editorial

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Again, we enter a period where ‘migrants’ ‘foreigners’ ‘refugees’ are words tarnished ‘dirty’ and ‘negative’ by the media and harboured by politicians for political gain.

First performed in Paris in 2010,  ONE has evolved its premise of the fundamental principle of Indian philosophy and classical arts – the cyclic phenomenon, where there is no beginning nor end – to reach out to the same migrant, the refugee and the foreigner who dares to cross the border and lay claim that we are all but refugees of that cycle, and question how we have become territorial of our habitats…

Incorporating Nritta (pure dance) and Nritya (expression of narrative), the kathak through the use of costume, movement, space and music captures the first beat of that cyclic time and nests it until it becomes the ‘one’ again.

Does everything really begin with ‘one’ or is it that everything ends with ‘one’?

ONE was created from the urge to present classical Kathak repertoire with live music, but stylized to a contemporary sensibility and relevance – Amina Khayyam

The production further collaborated with flamenco artist Belen Maya for Mevueles Lorca festival in Aug 2018 in the Andalusian mountains of Granada for a R&D for a future project re Lorca’s women.
Click here for an audience blog on the R&D