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It was in 1984, at the East-West Dance encounter, that Chandralekha – making a return to dance after an interregnum of 12 years – proposed these ideas. More than three decades after they were first articulated, her ideas on the predicament and possibilities of our dance still ring true.
Dancer/choreographer Chandralekha’s original essay on the iconography of the female, its deep subconscious power and its potential feminist charge.
Dancer and seminal thinker Chandralekha’s 35 years-old lecture, ‘Changing Phases of Bharatanatyam’ sheds light on the need to rethink a new direction for dance. She would have turned 93 on 6 December 2021.
All primary Indian dance forms, originating in primitive and tribal societies, are solidly linked with work activity. Classical forms have not been able to shed the martial and gymnastic poses of forms from which they originated.
The renowned dancer-choreographer says that the internal relation between dance and the dancer and the external relation between dance and society are questions that cannot be taken lightly.
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