Sarasa Krishnan

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Sarasa Krishnan is an Indian classical dancer, visual artist and author who has performed, exhibited and lectured in Europe, UK, USA, Australia and Asia. 

"My work, be it  through paintings, dancing or writing, investigates the ancient Rasa Theory of Sage Bharata and expounds the notion of 'change in consciousness' in its 'observers' or participants.

The artist through her movement investigates ‘intention’ through colour and the dancer engages rhythmic energy-colour patterns that fuse to create movement. This methodology is ‘in’ performance, underpinning theoretical observations through direct, corporeal, and subjective experience; an experience that enacts a change in consciousness experienced in a present- tense moment.

Through this lived inquiry of the dancer- visual artist, the role and effects of the observer or Self in the Quantum theory and Vedantic philosophy is explicated. It establishes the important foundations Rasa has, in a holistic view of the universe and our relationship to it and re-claims that this profoundly metaphysical view of art and Rasa as a philosophical and spiritual vision, is significant for a re-visioning of theatre itself as well as a way of being." —Sarasa Krishnan

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