Innovating with and for Junoon is quite the same as creating a Dance. Choreography is a painful, brain-splitting experience. Until, of course, it’s done. Then, you’ve introduced something fresh or presented a fresh perspective on a phenomenon that has existed for a while. As a Foundation that constantly wants to break ground with the next “step”, we want to make sure we’re new in a way that also stays true to our roots.
We have so many ideas about artistic evolution, the preservation of our history, the presentation of Art, the role and responsibility of Art in social change, the music, costumes, methodology, the process of teaching and learning and creating, the discipline and the freedom that the Arts instill in us and entrust us with.
This ideation, this creativity, this innovation takes time, breath, patience, thought and a pause that creatives rarely allow themselves in the modern era. Dancers especially, are so used to a machine-like existence; we forget we’re human, that we need to read a book, look at a painting, watch a relatable TV show, take a walk in a park (or ten!), go to a crowded farmer’s market, cook up a storm, melt some cheese, bite into some chocolate and sleep all the hours we can to heal our bodies and moving minds to eventually, dream of the kind of Dancing we’d like to come up with.
Dancers are bitten by a bug. It gets in our heads. But, oh, what it can do for the Art form when the bug blossoms into thought and action that brings the Art to the stage, light and consciousness it was created for.
Junoon, by name, is a passion-driven movement for the Arts – particularly Classical Dance. But it is also a careful, meditated and reflective endeavour to bring a superlative quality of education, performance and opportunity in the Arts to those within our orbit. And an invitation to those who wish to inhabit it.
It wasn’t built in a day. So, every next “move” is the culmination of reflection, discussion, research and some seasons spent dreaming of all the Dances we’ll make and the resultant revolutions we’ll make happen.
Stay tuned.
This is Junoon.
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