Dance musings 2: A Thin line or a Huge gap?
Is there a huge gap between the depth of the classical arts and our understanding of it? Leave aside those scholars and artistes who have a phenomenal understanding of the several interlinking layers embedded within the classical arts. For the rest of us, it is a slow arduous journey of TRYING to understand the wealth that is our classical arts. So, given that most of our understanding is very nascent, we must definitely give ourselves a pat on the back that we create work even with this fraction of knowledge. But sometimes, we get carried away. And that is when it becomes dangerous. Dangerous for the Arts that is; because 80% of those sitting in the audience assume what you are doing is correct. Now, we all agree that the arts evolve with time, so of course the performance also evolves. But what is it that separates an evolved performance from a blasphemous performance. A performance of a traditional temple art form to a Mashup of Bollywood disco numbers cannot qualify as evol...