Richard Bach’s ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ Takes Flight in Bharatanatyam in Chennai
Jayanthi Subramaniam’s ‘Jyotir Gamaya,’ recently staged in Chennai, reimagined Richard Bach’s allegorical novella through the grammar of Bharatanatyam. The production used imaginative choreography to trace a seagull’s pursuit of freedom, self-discovery, and transcendence, underscoring how classical Indian dance can absorb global literary ideas without losing its own aesthetic discipline.
