Storms of the Heart: The Flexed Foot

As a Bharatha Natyam dancer, ‘multiculturalism’ is a word that I have got used to hearing, and no doubt like others of my colleagues, I often find myself the unprepared cog in the working out of this grand scheme. Facing thirty teenagers in an Indian classical dance class arranged by their school is only the tip of the iceberg in the constant fight to gain credibility for a different movement aesthetic in a predominantly insular culture.

Read the full chapter on the practicalities of multiculturalism: The Flexed Foot.