a transdisciplinary performance exploring identity, ancestry, and the feminine creative force
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Overview
Between the known and the unformed, Maya draws from classical South Indian Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi classical dance forms, classical Carnatic music, and a remarkable visual installation to inhabit maya not as illusion, but as a living field of transformation. The work reflects on maya as presence, perception, and awareness, and on the ways reality can glisten, shift, and resist remaining fixed. It also turns toward the unknown, toward spaces without certainty, and understands meaning as something discovered through how we live with what cannot be fully explained.
Through movement, sound, visual art, and light, the performance invites us into a space where lineage becomes both anchor and horizon, and identity remains fluid, layered, and expansively alive. Inspired by the musical lineage of master composer Madurai N. Krishnan and the choreographic legacies of visionary and seminal dance artists Sudharani Raghupathy and K. Uma Rama Rao, the work engages art as a living portal into ancestry, memory, devotion, and resistance.
Lead Collaborators
Vijay Palaparty | Dance and Movement
Ramya Kapadia | Music
Shanthi Chandrasekhar | Visual Art
Program
10:15 AM | Community chanting of Lalitha Sahasranama Stotram
11:00 AM | Performance
Free admittance
Venue
Spaces
No. 1, Elliots Beach Road
Besant Nagar, Chennai, 600090