Saturday, August 14, 2021

A dancer and her journey with oppression

 

Oppression is not a new thing for some dancers. Dance is that part of human life style which requires in a society to stop something really not necessary. It's that kind of authority which continuously killing our self-respect and emotion in some phases. A mind too in a society specially an orthodoxity shattered by oppression and killing which might be a prolonged unjust treatment or exercise of authority. 

It's not a new thing but there is already a settled place where a dancer lives with her family. She receives a subsequent amount of oppression.The main reason to acess oppressive treatment by she, was 'a collective poverty'. The dancer lost everything from her life because of her extreme passion for art and was once misleaded. I met this dancer who was in extreme emotions of becoming a dancer as because of her father's last wish to see her as a true and real dancer. During those days, my treatments were going on for severe health issues. I met her as my special care taker who could communicate promptly to the nurses. She was the dancer of immense capabilities, passions and promising. She has everything to become a good dancer, only mising within her was the humanity which is defined by herself as less important than her passionate wish. I met her as a nurse who was compassionate about Dance and dancing. She had seen the death of her own father and that emotion of she leaded to choose Dance as her choice or to become a good dancer. 

A creative performance 'A queen dancer' in that format of a performance as a transformation has been rehearsed. The basis of this performance was about the real story of a nurse who had tremendous amount of enthusiasm about dance. She was happy to meet me knowing as her patient whom she believed as a good dancer and knew some good dances. But it was difficult to communicate with her because my voice was not cleared due to the severe illness .


She built up and developed her dream day by day. I wanted to warn her about too much of getting into her emotion, but could not able to speak anything. And as time passed on, the situation became more encouraging but with 'the she'.

It went on that way-


A Queen or a normal woman-What would be a moral outcome besides their social status? The morals are generally the same fixed by a society whether you are queen or a slave. The status is different because the queen is the wife of a king, while a normal woman is the soul of her husband and that means everything for her. 

But there has been going on a struggle to accept a dancer. Because, a normal woman wanted to be a dancer. As a social being, both of them (two women) struggled a lot. Gradually, the poorer woman left her wish behind. She assured herself that there will be certainly a humdrum left over if she would dance. And, on the other hand, 
the queen became adamant to leave everything even her children under royalty to grow herself as a dancer. 

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The Queen dancer was fond of dancing which became her energy to survive and stand. She was a devotee of truth because she was trained to be a noble ruller by her mother for which dreaming was not a crime under their royality. She grew up as a good dreamer thereby. 

The 'she' dancer as always mesmerised by her mother's altar specially because it looked
 very colourful and there were placed a very 
many dancing gods and goddess
 beautifully. 
The ‘she’ dancer became a tremendous and passionate about dance and dancing.The 'she' carried a dancing bag (suitcase) with herself thereafter. There was kept the dancing bells inside of it. Those were earned actually without any ritual.She named it as freedom bells with no rules and authority! 

And why not she could named it that way? Sometimes,that gave her identity and  a power to protest against all violence and illegals against humanity! 

The 'She' got married by her own choice and thereafter suffered a lot. It was art that brought her back from all her failures until she won. 

She found her husband had misused her dancing bells. Sooner,they evolved in contradiction and overt an sentiment.Then started to go on own. 

And then, the shiva tandav was evolving within themselves and the vibrant anger was spontaneous by 
all means. It was all about pulling
 and pushing and split up. 
They started arguing
to prove themselves and finally kept apart with self respect.


The 'she' went out keeping in mind the feet of the 
'he' of her life and on her way she was 
comparing it to the feet of God and 
hence this split was none 
other than but 
a blessing. 

The 'she' was lost on her way of dancing dream and the tired 'she' started asking to the one living in the sky about where is her light? Where is the reflection of the light? 
It's black everywhere. 
'Kindly help me!'


On her way, the 'she' has met a no. of advisors. Some could help her, some tried 
to be a helping hand and with 
all those she moved on without 
a full stop. 

The 'she' remembered her dance teacher. She took all effort to reach her although it was not so easy! As if the split started to rewrite some kind of
 memory lore or some kind of
 divine tales! 

But, it's not a time to pick up some flowers;
rather it's a time to reach to the destiny for which the 'she' fought with all her way. 



The husband made a sculpture in a public place where
 it was instructed to portrait a divine love. He made Radha Krishna because he carried the supreme soul 
within the scultures.It was none other but a belief 
that grown up already in a public crowd. 
The splited wife, at the same time tangled to perform
 the dance of  longing from the chapters of 
divine tales and it built her mind 
strongest but at all affinity.
The ‘she’ dancer actually took shelter under
 a guidance. That was an abode for many 
other dancers where spirituality 
nourished everyday. 


The 'she' decided to light a lamp of hope 
which will carry her to step always up and do not look down 
upon herself.She came back to 
her normal life. 
She came to her dancing floor. She is confirmed of 
being seen 
 a light. 
That the light of life:that the life always
 carried  her journey with terror and fearsome wilder animals. 




The 'she' is hopeful with this lamp to build up stregth to overcome all the fears came across. And determined to mentain a self respect .She went to nature and then got her answers with biggest smile. She knew that divinity should be always respected to find out a true nature. This is not because she loved to be with it, but because she wondered and 
fascinated to watch a creation amidst nature
 since long back.

And times moved on and on. And so the movements of
 her dancing body were too improving !  The 'she' did everything for her self respect only.  As she knew the oppression had already knocked on her door!As time crossed over, 
the more became her maturity with
 the body. 
And then, the 'she' wondered about why not to
 show the same lights to 
other suffered souls? 
May God give her enough 
surrendering 
to grow
 and be with light with transcendent. 
And let this journey transform everything that required by all dancers in this world. 

And let the oppression be on their feet. 

(Genre:Creative writing
Photo source:google image
Method:Experimental)