Sharira - Fire/Desire

This film was shot in Chennai at one of the very first performance of Sharira, the last choreographic work by Chandralekha, with Tishani Doshi and Shaji John. In the book “Chandralekha, choreographic works, Anigka to Sharira 1985-2003”, edited by Sadanand Menon, the choreographer’s note reads, “Body corporeal and Body conceptual. Body as a path towards a return to vast inner spaces of hidden resources. Areas of pulsating points and contained forces. Sharira is about the profound and invisible female energies that can activate our outer and inner selves. Sharira explores the body as a transformative field for ascending feminine force, to evoke the condition within which the ‘self’ can experience the world. Sharira celebrates the living thing in which sexuality, sensitivity and spirituality co-exist-acknowledging no limit, borders, boundaries.”