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I wrote on my conservatory-come-studio window, with my red chalk pen: "Get experience with companies / choreographers."
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This theme of flame epitomised Mythili’s aesthetic, which is pleasurably familiar in its classicism but excitingly new in its sensibility.
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The intensity of contact time at Dance India 2017 allowed a rare 360-degree intimacy, revealing more about their creative processes, personalities, approaches and journeys than I had imagined I could know.
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There are so many layers of irony at play here, no doubt referential to the depth of my regret.
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How can one feel free when every corner of movement is tied down with rules that define what is beautiful, what is acceptable?
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