Research & Development

For Ranjani & Divya, the creative process is a deeply personal and organic journey where ideas take formal shape when they truly ripen and mature within.  Where a thought goes from being an idea to becoming an embodied experience.  Being friends, their creativity isn’t confined to the number of hours they log in at the studio, it happens through the everyday flow of life. Plain conversation leads to ideas that  often form musical notes or choreographic maps on their drive to pick up Divya’s son from school, or at a café lunch outing, or during their long walks at the beach, or during intense cat fights (which happen quite often, how can it not, when two intense women are at the creative helm!). Through the ebb and flow of life, along with all its trials and tribulations, the constant in their life is their creative journey together and the work they produce together as artists. 

The one thing they seek as people and artists is freedom - to express, to share, to be. This yearning for freedom, made them break away from the strict confines of compositional and choreographic structure to explore improvisation, which in Indian art is known as manodharma. Though some of their work is set compositionally & choreographically, a large part of it finds spontaneous expression,  both in rehearsal and on stage. This proficiency in manodharma is something they have consciously sought, allowing for heightened vulnerability and giving them the freedom to express in real time as the creativity flows through them. They believe that they are mere conduits for the allowing of a larger creative flow that gushes through.  Allowing to flow, feel, reveal & observe.