‘Maya’ and ‘mukti’ are esoteric concepts with deep roots in Indian philosophy. Over millennia, the twin concepts of ‘maya’ and ‘mukti’ have informed almost all major literary works with roots in the Indic consciousness, from three-thousand-yearold epics to Rabindranath Tagore’s prodigious literary compositions in the last century. If ‘maya’ is that which veils and obscures, then ‘mukti’ is that which shreds the veil of ignorance, informs and enlightens.
Actomania uses the medium of dance to explore the twin concepts of maya and mukti in Tagore’s worldview. Curated sections of two well known dance dramas, Chandalika and Kalmrigaya we used to navigate through a world of moral dilemmas where characters experience deep conflicts between ethics and emotions, between social obscurantism and personal freedom.
