What really determines a person’s true identity- who the person really is? Is it one’s emotions, personal beliefs, values, hormonal urges, kinks, likes and dislike and her love language that make her unique? Or is it solely defined by social standards imposed upon her? Or is her identity a restless jumble of the two. Most of us lead a good part of our lives enmeshed in our comfortable cocoons labeled work, family, social life and sleep. The rinse-repeat formula works too, that is until something comes to shake things up. You lose someone or something you love and life as you knew it becomes a stranger. You become a stranger. And those questions posited above become loud. Its time for the caterpillar to wake up from her hibernation. To realize that she is more than just the mundane identity lent to her by society. Its time to seek out a path that is hers alone.

Introduction

The piece looks closely into what happens when one goes through the process of transformation - What transitions does one face? What exactly does a caterpillar go through while it is in the cocoon phase before becoming a butterfly? Often, to cope with a certain circumstance, situation, environment, person, feeling, we acquire certain patterns in order to fit in or adjust. Sometimes, these patterns become such an intrinsic part of our lives that we do not even realize the line between an acquired pattern and our true self. When certain circumstances change and those changes shake the roots of your life, you find yourself questioning these patterns that don’t seem to fit or serve you any longer.

The Body of Metamorphosis

The duo explores the reactions that take place within the body while it tries to fit into a pattern. How does a pattern impact the body? And during the period of transition when old patterns are fading away and the new self is finding its expression in the world, what is then your relationship to the changed self and how does your body respond to this change? In this duet movement piece, choreographer emphasizes the transformation of a personality from one to another. What is this new self? Is it an add on to the old pattern or a breakaway into something new? The choreographer continues to explore the shift between reality and illusion. What does the

body sense and feel and how does it react through this unending loop between creation of a new pattern, destruction of it and recreation of another; Or is it a pattern at all?