ABSTRACT
As a professional Sattriya dancer, the author speaks to her own experience to philosophise and reflect upon the union of body and mind through an acceptance of objects and artefacts as being inseparable from movement. The subjectivity of the object–subject relationship and how the choreographic narrative of a dance is connected through cultural motifs, artefacts, and objects are discussed. The author explains how the spatial frame and visualisation of objects form the foundation of Indian classical dance and how an attachment towards an object may lead to a stirred imagination.
