“E.D.C. – EurAsia Dance Company is a part of the EurAsia Dance Project International Network that I’ve founded in Mumbai, India, in 2016. From that time I travel around the world, through the vast network of EurAsia, in order to search for talents that I support awarding them with scholarships for European dance academies. Doing this I’ve discovered and I’ve traveled in countries where, because of their religion – political – social rules, dance is punished by death or to be a woman is hard and dangerous: both of the individuals part of these categories, women and dancers, they live a second life, hidden from the eyes of society, behind the curtain of their private lives, in the constant condition of fear, loneliness, misunderstanding and frustration. With EurAsia, we have initiated numerous human rights fights in support of these communities that continue to exist and resist. Obviously there are many other minorities, but with my work and my travels I live together and I have the opportunity to get to know more closely the male and female dancers of some cultures that prohibit them from free will, but who, despite everything, with courage and strength, through secret networks, hidden rooms and coded communications, they continue to live their lives in secret, meeting in secret places, cultivating their passions and fueling their dreams without losing hope that one day they will come true.

BINDUBOOND, is a new idea for a new artistic project. Bindu translates directly to “drop” or “point.” It denotes a small, singular unit or essence, often representing the beginning of creation. In various Indian philosophies, particularly in **Tantra**, the bindu is seen as the seed of creation. It symbolizes the potential of the universe, containing within it all forms and energies. BinduBoond can also be seen as a metaphor for the interplay between reality and illusion. Each drop or moment is real yet part of the larger illusion of the material world, prompting reflection on the nature of existence: This concept explains very well the dimension in which many women or many dancers are forced to live just for their condition of being or for a life choice, and not only them, but also the LGBTQ+ communities and all the minorities or the unrecognized and so those without rights within the “approved reality” of some cultures. The fact that dance is banned does not mean that in these countries there are no ancient traditional dances or boys and girls who try to learn contemporary dance through videos on YouTube, just as the fact that despite the many discriminatory rules, many women can barely live  their freedom away from prying eyes. BinduBoond does not want to address the topic in a provocative and political way, but it just wants to be inspired by the starting “condition”: MAYA and ATMAN, reality and illusion. Through the study of traditional dances of some of these countries, and of some dances performed in the past only by women in moments of entertainment for men, the dancer of the Company will acquire the technical elements of those dances, the qualities, the rhythms, the body language, the symbolism , the rituality of the movements for then elaborate everything and create the new movement sequences that will give life to this new creation. All while remaining abstract, in the code, form and dramaturgy of the piece, far from any form of judgment and comment on the vast and delicate topic chosen. The interesting process of “translation” and “transformation” of the basic elements of the traditional techniques that we will examine will also give us the possibility of experimenting and hypothesizing what their evolution could have been or what could be in the future and therefore an evolved form of the same movements but in a contemporary perspective.

Partners & Supporters:

BinduBoond would be supported by one of the EurAsia Partners, institutions partnering with EurAsia, the choreographic center DANCEHAUSpiú, that will provide the studios for the rehearsal in Milan and that will take care of the contracts for the Company and the collaborators working on this new piece. The dancer part of the E.D.C. – EurAsia Dance Company who is dancing this solo is Tejaswini Dilip Loundo, originally from India. The piece will be taken on tour by the Company through the EurAsia´s network and therefore to the Company’s international collaborations which take its shows around the world between North and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, every year.”