PANAJI: While the rest of the world is crusading for feminism and women's rights,
Purush, a dance ensemble curated by Tanushree Shankar at the Serendipity Arts Festival stresses on the beauty of
masculinity.
Choreographed by
Robert Moses Kin, an artiste from San Francisco, USA, the hour-long performance sheds light on the strong and often unnoticed aspects of manhood like being the backbone of a family and controlling the urge to cry, which are often taken for granted.
The performance stresses on the need to focus on these aspects of the Indian male instead of deeming them all chauvinists or macho.
"There are a lot of aspects of a man which we ignore. A woman can cry openly if she wants to but a man is always expected to suppress this urge. What we fail to understand is that men and women have the same five senses and the same nine emotions, yet they are expected to act differently in a given situation," said Shankar. "The aspects of being a father, a son or just a man alone will be expressed by the twelve dancers who have been assembled purely for this performance. They exhibit fear, insecurity, irrevocable love and other emotions through their dance."
The ensemble will be staged on Monday at DB ground, Campal, Panaji.
