Pushed [2006]

"The 'beyond' is neither a new horizon, nor a leaving behind of the past.... Beginnings and endings may be the sustaining myths of the middle years; but in the fin de siècle we find ourselves in the moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of difference and identity, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion."

Homi Bhabha – The Location of Culture

"... Even now when I think of it I feel like pulling out my hair."

"I wanted to lie down, unrelaxed."

"... clench my fists... smash to pieces..."

Anger, pain, pleasure, happiness, sorrow, love, lust. From Ashwini's anger, to Andrea's lust, from Padmini's sorrow, to Anoushka's love, from your pain to your mother's love.

'PUSHED' is all of these journeys. Six dancers enter and exit in quick succession weaving a long and linear non-narrative that moves from one transition to the next seamlessly. The intention is to blur the lines of emotionality. To move the emotional from the tangible subjective to an intangible objective.

So we are left with the idea of transactions between bodies and between the bodies and the performing space. Emotion is then our ability to find balance but also to lose it. It is the tightrope that takes us from the highs to the lows and back up again – not just once or twice but in endless repetition.