Reflection

Reflection

Growing up in India, I've seen the struggles of underprivileged children and their families, waiting in line with small plastic buckets near the water trucks. This incident disheartened me from day one to see members of my community suffering from water scarcity. It was my motivation to stop wasting water and educate my peers about the increased water stress. I've learned about women marching on World Water Day who fought for water justice, and they encouraged me to focus on water scarcity issues worldwide. These strong women are my biggest inspiration in fighting for water equality and safe consumption of water. My dance describes the differences in leading a privileged lifestyle versus an underprivileged one, and what we can do to solve this crisis. I combined Bharathanatyam, a traditional Indian Classical dance form that originated from the villages of Tamil Nadu, with Instrumental Veena (a string instrument) Music. The desperate situation of children walking many miles to get water is represented by tense, fast-paced ragas (tunes); I used mudras, which are dance hand gestures, to represent nature and dance.