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Into the essence

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Into The Essence  What would it have been like if Virginia Woolf had been a dancer instead ? What would her words and ideas have looked like as movements ? I have long been possessed by these kind of thoughts, these sorts of unending contemplation. How does the 'idea' or the concept evolve and unfold in different art forms? Each Art form, with its technicalities and specific beauty, is (according to me) in the end a medium which communicates the idea, the emotion, or the concept. Whether the idea is a traditional/mythological/inherited one, or a (supposedly) original, it is still, to me as an artist, the essence of art. A figure painted a bluish tint, standing with legs crossed with a flute in the hands, is undeniably Krishna. Any (Indian) dancer that imitates this body language/gesture, is undoubtedly showing Krishna. Is not the dance an image here? Or the image the dance? With words, the particular combination of the seven letters 'Krishna' is, well,