Dance has the ability to express human emotions which cannot be described with words. That's why dancers normally don't speak when performing. In certain exceptionally gifted dancers, the combination of extreme physical prowess and their silence on stage gives them an almost divine quality - they become gods and goddesses in the eyes of the audience (therefore the term "Sacred Monsters").But what if the dancers do speak, like they did in tonight's performance? Then they become real and human. They laugh at themselves, and we with them. They ask, "Is this right, or is this wrong?" They shed the false veneer of perfection, and by doing so, they move beyond their limits.
"The God Krishna is most often pictured in blue with long curly hair. When I was a child taking up Indian classical dance, I desired to become this vision of perfection. But then, I started losing my hair."
Charlie Brown: " Why are you crying, Sally Brown?"
Sally Brown: "I don't know, I just feel like crying."
