https://rss.com/podcasts/deha-bodha-notes-of-a-thinking-dancer Dancing is not always about performance. Across different cultures it becomes a way of knowing ourselves. This is a space where performance traditions are analysed and explored in a radically different way. What is there in a performance beyond performance or show. How do the performance spaces become inclusive and democratic? Here we pause and think between text, practice and experience.

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