Is it audacious for a 63-year-old woman to talk publicly about sexual desire? It’s audacious enough for a 63-year-old woman to front her own solo dance show, the art form most associated with youth, never mind witnessing a grandmother luxuriating in sensation, her body twitching and pulsing, her desire fluttering. There’s nothing salacious about Forbidden. Leading Indian kathak performer Aditi Mangaldas has created work that is earnest and sensitive albeit frank, and quietly outraged at the double standard afforded to men’s and women’s sexuality. Forbidden is a fearless picture of woman as both object and fount of desire.
