The Parul Shah Dance Company at the Erasing Borders Dance Festival

Erasing Borders: Festival of Indian Dance

Lord Shiva danced the world into existence with a shake of his mighty damru, it is said, and we’ve been dancing ever since.

Indian dance is a vital, organic entity – it jumps off the walls of ancient temples to villages, towns and cities across India and the Diaspora. Indians aspire to dance, be it grandmas doing the Garba or kids belting out Bollywood numbers in front of the TV. And then you have the dance professionals who take it to a whole breath-taking level.

You had to be at ‘Erasing Borders: Festival of Indian Dance’, a three day festival of dance in NYC to see how boldly the ghungroo bells ring and how feet and hands and bodies meld into a thing of beauty. What was eye-opening was the sheer diversity of the dance vocabulary and how it’s being interpreted by a whole new generation of dancers.

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