Kolam: At the Threshold at Mexican Heritage Plaza

Kolam: At the Threshold is a new full-length 80-minute Bharatanatyam dance work choreographed by Rasika Kumar that explores ritual, inheritance, and cultural memory through the South Indian practice of kolam, daily rice-flour drawings made at the threshold of the home. The piece integrates Bharatanatyam movement, Carnatic music, spoken text, and spatial design inspired by kolam's geometric structures. It centers the threshold as both a physical and symbolic space, examining questions of language loss, shifting gender roles, migration, and the tension between preservation and evolution.