Folios of Time 2.0

Unfair and Handsome by Ashish Karnawat
grwm_abc: My eyes are hurting from watching myself on loop but I can't stop, I am so beautifool!
grwm_xyz: Try a honey syrup eye mask; it might help. But be careful of the bee, if it stings you, it
might make your face a little less worthy of an Instagram reel.

Saha Aham by Kalyani Sarada
The contemporary dance performance Saha Aham looks at the complex interplay between
divinity and humanity within each of us as individuals, and within us as a community.

Who are “we”, who are “they”? What creates comfort, peace, rootedness, identity? What creates dissonance, grief, angst, anger? What is the path to divinity and transcendence? What stands in our way?

That which I fear is me.
That which disgusts me is me.
That which I hate is me.
That which I seek to impress is me.
That which I seek to reform is me.
That from which I must be protected is me.
That is also me.
Saha Aham.

Audio Therapy by Radhika Rathod
There are echoes older than language,
whispers that braid themselves
into the bones of sound.
Before her first word was born,
the world had already tuned her frequency.

They said it would help her —
this audio therapy.
A cure for her tone,
a balm for her defiance,
a way to make her voice
less unsettling to the room.
 
They told her to listen deeply —
to the wisdom in their words,
to the patience in their pauses,
to the kindness hidden
in correction.
She mistook control for care,
and silence for healing.

She learned to breathe
between instructions,
to smile where it was safer,
to soften her edges
until even truth sounded polite.

The chorus was endless —
smile more,
speak less,
you sound angry, 
you sound afraid.
Each note carefully composed
to make her question her own hearing.

And so she began to drift inward — 
to find the spaces between the notes,
where no one was teaching her 
how to be.
Unlearning, Unravelling.
Now she listens differently,
not to be fixed,
but to remember
the sound of her own beginning.

Fractured Freedom by Sumeet Sagolsem
I seek to process my emotions, the trauma we carry from our experiences is a stark reminder that the challenges we face continue to exist. Dance becomes my protest, my prayer, and my plea for a more inclusive, compassionate society.

Performance Structure:
1. Introduction - Disintegration
2. Confinement
3. Resistance
4. Resilience