Interview - Sandhya Raman and Suma Suresh on the layers of art forms that brought interdisciplinary Kintsugi to life - Shveta Arora

Starting late 2025 and continuing well into 2026, Lata Pada's Canada-based Sampradaya Dance Creations toured with the production 'Kintsugi'. Kintsugi is a Japanese art that honours broken pottery by mending it with gold lacquer, highlighting the breaks rather than hiding them and 'embracing embellished brokenness'. The concept of the production was that kintsugi is 'where rupture meets renewal and radiance', 'what we lose, what we mend and what endures'. It was applied to the Mahabharata, reimagining volatile and unresolved ruptures in relationships as points of transformation or healing. It was a rich amalgamation of Kathak, Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance, which was very well woven into the music and the rhythm. Plus, there was a natya element in enacting the stories - Eklavya and Drona, Draupadi and Yudhishthir, Kunti, Arjuna and Karna, Gandhari and her daughter Dushala.

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