Embrace

In March 2012 I went to India for one month, support by Creative Scotland Professional Development Fund, to work on a project called Embrace. With the backdrop of the incredible true story of Amrita Devi and the woman of the Chipko movement, it tells the story of a young Scottish girl, disillusioned by the world we live in, going to India in the hope to find inspiration, only to discover their trades are also dying, their culture also being lost to westernisation. But, with the help of a girl she meets there and inspired by the women before her, she begins to celebrate what they do have and try to encourage the world not to lost these skills, these wonderful crafts, that so few people now possess and that the environmental future of our world depends on.

The story will be told through bhartnatyam dance, shadow puppetry and aerial dance. I am half way through my adventures in India. This is my story...