The Inheritance of Dance
The beauty of vulnerability is at the core of this memoir that traces the life journeys of three dancers.
Dancing in the Family: The Extraordinary Story of the First Family of Indian Classical Dance, is envisaged as a mammoth dance drama with three lead characters, a handful of supporting actors and many guest appearances; the costumes are charming, the lighting, minimalist and the props and sets that anchor the stories help locate them in a context that lets us move-from one context, continent, city to another-with ease. You know instantly, the writer is an artist; in this case, a visual and a performing artist.
Spread over 240 pages and spanning several chapters with straightforward titles, its sutradhar (storyteller)-Sukanya Rahman produces a full-length production-a memoir-that traces
