by Pallavi Garg When Agastya contacted me last December to invite me to get involved with Pratidhwani's production of Mahesh Dattani's Dance like a Man this summer in Seattle, I remember the distinct feeling of my heart going - 'oh yesss!' I fell in love with this play way back when and right from the first table read with the group in March, I felt it in my bones that this was going to be a terrific experience. The stimulating discussion right after the reading made me grab

By Jay Athalye Let’s begin from the beginning… of this year. I think it was January when Tanvee, my wife, mentioned that she will be part of Pratidhwani drama’s next production where she will play a dancer. That’s the first time I heard about Dance Like a Man. “So you will be dancing?”, I asked matter-of-factly. Given the name of the play and the fact that it was Tanvee, I was merely putting two and two together. “Maybe... I don’t know”, she muttered, not looking away from he

In his collection of essays titled A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut says, “If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.” This conflict between parents’ views on what is best for their children and a life in the arts is not unique to the times we live in, the country we live in, or the country/ies we are from. It seems to be universal. It’s because “the arts are not a way to make a living”, Kur