Boxed, choreographies commissioned for the digital platform by Chennai-based artist Anita Ratnam to encourage dancers from India or of Indian origin, from four continents,to explore the spaces they have been confined to during the covid-19 pandemic.The six editions of the series since the third week of April have seen kitchen slabs, dinner tables, staircases, hospitals and bathtubs emerging as new performance spaces.
Chennai-based dancer R. Vishwesh, who usually performs in free spaces, found the idea of performing on a dinner table challenging. “But it gave me an idea of how to control myself," he says in the clip.In another clip, Surjit Nongmeikapam (aka Bonbon), founder and artistic director of the Imphal-based Nachom Arts Foundation,.