Apricot Trees Exist - 2004
Apricot Trees Exist, inspired by ALPHABET, the celebrated epic poem by Danish experimentalist Inger Christensen, is Roger Sinha's cosmic dance ode to the metaphysical in everyday life.
The visionary, philosophical quality of the poem is enhanced through its metamorphosis into movement. Simple references to everyday life, such as trees, doves, fruit, or paper, give way to deeply resonant states of reflection. The mundane and miraculous are interconnected. Life and destruction are interdependent players in the vast drama of existence. Sinha weaves these dualities expertly: his dancers stride between the intimate and the universal, control and abandon, connection and isolation.
«At once rooted in contemporary, upper body lyricism and grounded, angular bharatanatyam, Sinha's eccentric mix of east and west becomes, on the surface, an ecstatic pean to life set to Bertrand Chénier's masterful fusion score. The greatness of Sinha, however, is his ability to also embed dark subtext into the choreography to remind us that life is not perfect».
- Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail − Febr. 2007
