Pushed to the Edge

Natya Dance Theatre and Mordine & Company Dance Theatre come together to present the World Premiere of “Pushed to the Edge,” a unique work examining and combining the dance forms of Eastern and Western culture. “Pushed to the Edge” is the fourth collaboration between Hema Rajagopalan (Artistic Director of Natya) and Shirley Mordine (Artistic Director of Mordine & Co.) and marks their first evening-length creation together.

Inspired by the poem “Where the Mind is Without Fear” by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Rajagopalan and Mordine’s “Pushed to the Edge” explores the interface between Indian and American contemporary dance. The work celebrates the richness of our increasingly multicultural society by engaging themes of identity, communication, dislocation and discovery. It explores the crisis of identity that many “hyphenated Americans” – those with roots in two cultures – confront in the course of their daily lives.