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Roger Sinha's
creative impulse wells up from
the recollection
of his cultural
origins, expressing itself in a
dynamic tension between the
intimate and the universal, between control
and abandon.
The work
Sinha proposes uses the universality of the
body to explore the tensions created by the collision
of East and West. Beautifully expressive mudras
(hand gestures) and the rhythmically complex
footwork of Indian dance combine with the full
body movements of modern, ballet and the
martial arts. These mixtures of styles have
not gently fused into each other, rather
his personal experiences have led
him to passionately reclaim his
cultural origins and use tradition
for a contemporary expression of
his reality.
Montréal’s Roger Sinha of Sinha Danse, shows
what it means to live creatively amid the
chaos of the West. If Dance is a means of
speech, Sinha is truly multilingual.
Village Voice, New York, 2000
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