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09 Subashini Ganesan-Forbes
Subashini is a master of Bharatanatyam, the traditional dance of her South Asian ancestors that originated in the Hindu temples of the Tamil Nadu region of India, in which emotion, melody, and rhythm combine with movement to summon the gods—and which Subashini has contemporized by dancing (at times) without music, by collaborating with dancers in other genres, and by allowing her body to extend particular moves as she explores the complexities and most urgent messages of the moment.
