Bridget Scott has been to Kolkata before, but this is the first time she has danced for shuktara.
Bridget is from London and lives in Kyoto, Japan where she has been studying two Japanese dance forms: the avant garde style of Butoh and a very traditional form known as Nihon Buyoh.
On Friday evening 24th February 2017 Bridget came to shuktara boys home and performed a selection of Buyoh and Butoh for the young people from both of our homes on our rooftop.
The staff had decorated the roof with saris and placed beautiful textiles on the floor for everyone to sit on.
Bridget started with Buyoh and then did Butoh and some improvisation where she removed her obi (the tie around her waist) and ran around and in between the young people and staff of shuktara allowing them to hold and touch the obi as she ran.
It was an exciting, emotional and interactive performance and deeply moving as well because it was the night of Maha Shivaratri here in India.
We thank Maura Hurley for introducing Bridget to us and special thanks to Bridget who had a heartfelt wish to perform for our young people. We appreciated it. THANK YOU!
