How dance dismantles dilemmas of binarism

Patruni Chidananda Sastry’s recently released dance video on YouTube triggered a quiet discourse on LGBTQ representation in classical dance. ‘Dancing dysphoria’ follows the struggles, both mental, as well as physical that a non-binary person has to go through while navigating the idea of gender. Sastry uses the grace and aesthetics of Bharatanatyam to convey the conflict.

For Hyderabad-based Sastry, dance speaks louder than words. When in class V, Sastry watched Chitra Visweswaran, the renowned Bharatanatyam dancer, perform on stage in Kharagpur centred around the Hollywood film Godzilla. “My takeaway from this was that if the movie Godzilla can be depicted through dance, why can’t we do the same for other subjects that people find difficult to talk about,” says the artiste.

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