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  • Finding Shiva : An Inner journey of the performative experience

    (By Rukmini Vijayakumar)

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    Author Rukmini Vijayakumar
    “Book Descriptions: After high school, I was not sure about whether I should pursue dance or a technical subject. Awaiting clarity, I spent many months considering my options.

    While I was in the midst of this confusion, someone asked me, “What brings you closer to yourself?” I didn’t respond immediately, but in my mind the answer was clear. “Dance brings me closer to myself,” I thought. It was such an odd question, yet strangely it influenced a life decision. How can one be closer to or farther from oneself?

    I knew that dance would begin to reveal something to me at some point in time, but I wasn’t sure of what this thing would be. The act of dancing holds something within it that I wanted to discover. What if I could imbibe my life with the clarity of thought, precision, control and simultaneous surrender that I am able to wield as a performer? Wouldn’t life change inexplicably for the better?

    The applause bursts like rain clattering
    From a cloud too heavy to hold,
    My elation bathes me as sweat trickles
    Down my forehead a moment before
    It stings my eye to remind me to see,
    They applaud the dance, not me.
    If I were to fall prey, my dance entwined
    With only moments of applause to remind
    Of my days of yore. No never not.
    Dance is me and yet not at all...
    - Rukmini Vijayakumar”

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