Prism - CHAALI... taking dance to her audience - Bharat Sharma

Performance thrives in Live Performance - this is fundamental to any Intangible Art. At a fundamental level, it is a conversation between the Body and the Viewer in a defined space of culture. This is primal, if we take stick figures etched in Bhimbetka Caves near Bhojpur in Madhya Pradesh as manifestation of community and participatory exuberance, or sophisticated articulation of an individual's craft of the sharira to the rasika, as expounded in the rasa theory in the Natyashastra (5th century BC). From time immemorial, the relationship between dance and her audience has been crucial for the survival of oral traditions.

Dance as Live Performance is also linked to life cycle of humans - dance is lived while the body has breath. Dance gets activated at birth and dies at death, leaving traces in memory of viewers, or remembered through traditions passed on by generational lineages. These memories of the dancing body are affirmations of the ethereal nature of performance. Dance can be kept alive, in Time and Space, through a system that brings together the dancing body and the viewer to converse. These eco-systems of performance can then be termed as support system within a culture. 

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