What is dance to you?
I am often asked!

Sometimes it is a prayer
Offered daily

Where I express my gratitude and I ask for positivity in life
At times I dance the nritta (pure dance movements) to be thankful for my physical health
At other times I dance the nritya (expressional dance) to be grateful for my emotional well-being
And many times I teach this beautiful art, to share its positivity to my surrounding

Sometimes it is a science
Calculated through physics, biology, and chemistry

As I dance, I balance the angles of movements with the lines of symmetry in my body
I play with the surge of adrenaline where my will to perform well osmoses the fear of stage
Each time forming a covalent relationship between my weakness and strength on the way of improvement

Sometimes it is a culture
Which has become a way of life

From dance, I distill the moral values and traditions of its myths and history
Which I connect with the aesthetics of the classical and the folk
And bond with the empathy of understanding change and moving to the contemporary

What is dance to you?