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Your experimentations have been in the context of international initiatives. This Dance Company is known for Indian Contemporary Dance and has presented in more than Thirty different countries and more than Twenty-five International festivals.

Daksha is known for choreographies that include Summer (1986), Adya (1987), Yatra (1987), Time Piece (1988), Modern Times (1988), Chhaya (1989), Mahisasur Mardini (1988), Kalia Daman (1988), Govindlila (1991), Ashtayam (1991-93), Yagna (1994), Silence Is A Rhythm (1996), Tongues Untied (1996), Search For My Tongue (1996), Sangeetam (1996), Sarpagati – The Way of the Seprent (1996-97), Falling Angels (1998), Gilgamesh Fragments (1999), Prashna (2000), BhuKham (2000-01), Ganesh Vandana (2002), Amazonia (2002), Postcards From God (2005), Karma Khel (2004), Zero Gravity (2006), Kal Chakra (work in progress) (2006-present), Sari (2010), and Shiv Shakti (2011-12).

By involving story-telling and using her powerful voice to create effects that emotionally grasp the viewers, Mallika Sarabhai has taken the traditional dance form to a level where artistic expression becomes a universal language for activism.
DAKSHA: In Gujarat and Maharashtra where there are very good 'akhadas'.

It is even more difficult. Whatever you do, you have a bit of the rebel in you. The other is rope training. But I had problems. It is just outside Trivandrum, which makes our stay very pleasant and gives an incredible working environment. The experiences of Sarabhai, Sheth, and the two women who run their dance centers help innovate and excavate possibilities of using creative resentment to unfold themes like ethnicity, gender, sexuality and depoliticization of the masses.

There's a very clear demarcation of roles. 'Bhukham' is called "The circus of earth and sky".
DAKSHA: One of the major reasons why I chose Trivandrum is, my Kalari guru lives in Trivandrum. In that sense, there may be something similar.... Instead of going to a gym, you go to an 'akhada' which is like a traditional gym. “All of these together form the basis of a physical identity” (Chakraborty, 2011, 224), which is reclaimed and recreated through resentment, and the realization of the will of the self, against social norms and coercive forces of the society.

The Kathakars or the performers produce certain corporealities through the disciplined hand and foot movements, also using them to embody refusal to submit to the norms that stem from the colonial and modern histories in post-independence India.

I establish that as the historiography of Kathak as a dance form is tied to post-colonialism in India, performing kathak in contemporary India has also become a means of decolonizing the body, breaking from the colonial influence and a process of revival and cultural contestation. By letting dance and refusal speak for itself, we can then appreciate how movement is thought in different cultural contexts (Katrak, 2011, 21), and how the performers make meaning of their lives.

For example, in Chhau, the traditions are not so strong, they're under threat and if Daksha were to work in Chhau, I think she'll not be doing innovations but choreographing traditional items to try and strengthen tradition. I usually like people with Bharatanatyam background, where they have a good araimandi, because in the kind of dancing I do, I like squatting a lot.

DEVISSARO: At the same time, I must add that she's very much a rebel!! I must be a little proud to say it's been received extremely well. They were very offended by my visit and sometimes I was asked to get out.