Mesma Belsaré
Choreographer · visual artist
'...a tour de force.'
The New York Times
pic: Gajen Sunthara
One body. Two materials.
One continuous excavation.
Choreography · Painting
The work moves between stage, canvas, and ritual space as a single practice.
Mesma Belsaré is an interdisciplinary artist working through classical Indian dance and painting as one unified system. Each work is an investigation of the body as an archaeological site where myth, form, and embodied memory converge.
"The body carries something older than any tradition that has ever claimed it. Twenty-five years of practice in Bharatanātyam — one of the world's most rigorously codified classical forms — has been, for me, a way of going deeper into that older thing, not away from it. My choreographic work and my paintings are not separate disciplines. They are two materials for a single inquiry: what has the figure, the form, the moving body, not yet been allowed to remember?"
-Mesma Belsaré
