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An initiative of the Lingalayam Dance Company, the Elephant House Project focuses on creative collaboration, choreographic research, and scholarly exchange, as well as a range of public interactions with both the arts industry and the wider audience.

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Year: 
2006

Earth & Fire delves into the lives of the two great heroines of the epics Ramayana and Mahabaratha. Sita, the daughter of the earth and a patient woman, tormented by hardship, is transformed into an illusionary Sita or Mayasita. Draupadi, daughter of the fire, is a powerful, passionate woman and wife to five brothers set on a path of destruction.

Earth & Fire explores the difficulties a woman must face in a world which so often requires her to be Draupadi, yet expects her to be Sita.

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Year: 
2001

Kuruntokai - The Interior Landscape, draws form an anthology of 400 Tamil love lyrics, written between 100-300AD, that entwine human love with our environments. Their English translation, by the celebrated poet A. K. Ramanujan, has introduced Indian and Western readers alike to an unfamiliar and fascinating literary tradition.

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Year: 
2000

A barren woman’s dream of children makes her unwitting prey to manipulation by a serpent god. The serpent fulfills her dream, and caught in a coil of desire and seduction, the woman conceives. Years later, that joy long forgotten, the legacy of her serpent children becomes too much to bear, and leads her once again to the serpent god to seek retribution for his false temptation. Ultimately however, the power to right this betrayal lies elsewhere. Serpent Woman is an extraordinary tale with a happy ending.