As a dancer formally trained only in Bharatanatyam, I started my journey to experiment with both dancing and actively speaking during my performance (not just a voiceover)…using both the vocabulary of Bharatanatyam and spoken word in my productions in 2015. At that time, I was among a handful of dancers playing with this format. It’s coming close to 10 years now and what a journey it has been! When I started with this and premiered my first production, Unravelled in 2017, I was not only chastise