Summer Snapshot: Thresh's - Erasing Borders

Preeti Vasudevan, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Thresh Dance tells The Dance Enthusiast about her recent performance.

Tides of the Moon is a short piece about the effects of the full moon on earth and water. I wanted to bring the idea of continuous movement like the waves, moving together many times and yet having slight irregularities and syncopation. Another feature was to show complete opposition and counterpoint as if the 'lunacy' of the moon tears us apart. We chose to use the clarinet as an odd sound with the track invoking an other worldly feel that would allow us to feel forced to keep moving.

What was it like to be part of this Erasing Borders Indo- American experience?
It was quite good to see such a range of interpretation of Indian dance based work. Such work usually gets boxed into one or two types of possible interpretations. This festival showed its audience that the range can be quite vast, from traditional classical to very contemporary. More audiences need to see such festivals to be educated better on South Asian artists works and their modern journeys.

and Anything else you would like to say about your work....
Thresh creates original contemporary dance-theatre working with both eastern (Indian) and western movement forms. Thresh's outreach and education focuses on engaging with the audience and with dancers through classical Indian dance, Bharatanatyam, and how traditional movement is used to generate more contemporary movement vocabulary. Thresh has created an interactive educational website on Bharatanatyam called Dancing for the Gods which has lesson plans and activities for all to access this dance through technology.www.dancingforthegods.org

Contact info:
www.threshdance.org