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The book, Dharker’s response to the trauma of the 1993 Bombay blasts, has now been translated into a multimedia composition of form, light and proetry by the Daksha Sheth Dance Company. The husband-wife duo of Devissaro and Daksha have put together an amalgamation of varied forms - from dance, instruments music, drama and songs, to recitation and video imagery. It will blend in Dharker’s audio-visual presentation of her poems, in her own and daughter Ayesha Dharker’s voice.

While Devissaro faced the challenge of bringing verse to stage, from Daksha the test lay in transforming everyday movements into dance steps. “It was a conscious movement away from abstraction,” she says. The duo is joined by their actor-dancer daughter Isha Sharvani of Kisna fame, who sets aside her mantle of actor and declares, “I am a dancer first and will remain one”. World premiers at the Little Theatre, Mumbai on April 10 and 11.