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Shantala Shivalingappa, whose excellent career path has already crossed that of Maurice Béjart and Peter Brook, possesses such great talent that her virtuoso performances are almost second nature. For the past eight years she has illuminated shows by Pina Bausch while pursuing her basic work as performer of kuchipudi, the traditional South Western Indian dance. Shantala is the very image of this sublime, luxuriant, complex country. The project of this evening of soli was born of the wish to confront her classic technique with the universes of the two artists that she admires most of all and who caused a complete change in her conception of dance once she had met them. With Pina she learned to envisage and feel movement differently, from its creation to its performance, spontaneity, freedom and precision, fluidity, movement that flows from the body and also the heart. Although there is a contrast between the universe of Amagatsu – director of Sankai Juku – interwoven with slowness, cleanness and the abstract, and that of Indian dance, rapid and rhythmical, ornamented and narrative, these two practices are nevertheless linked at the end, radiating lightness and intense emotion. Following the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Shantala will be using the full range of her unique talent on-stage in Toboggan.