Are you doing a mix of classical Bharatanatyam and modern dance?
Well, let’s clarify one thing, [which I] explain to audiences as well. I don’t do a mixture of modern jazz and Bharatanatyam, [but] two clearly different styles of dance. One is pure classical Bharatanatyam, but done to North Indian music and with our own themes. The other is the contemporary style which is my own. Our performances are not what you [would] call ‘fusion,’ with a little bit of classical and a little bit of modern dance mixed together.When you produce a dance that comes out of you, yourself, and your body, I don’t call it fusion. Our music, [however], is definitely fusion because we are consciously putting things together [that] don’t belong to the same culture. How do you select your dancers? Do you have your own musicians? We have auditions. I have six dancers right now. I would like to add a few more but I am very picky. [Many] dancers find it hard to switch between the two styles. Those who are trained in Bharatanatyam are very often too stiff for anything else. Then
