Concept, Choreography & Dance: Nandita Shankardass
Cinematographer/Editor: Thom Seaman
Music: Preetha Narayanan
Assistant Editor: Kristia Morabito
Production Assistant: Rob Daniel

‘Returns to Nature’ explores a renewed curiosity and relationship with nature, engaging with its textures and qualities. Journeying through moments of exploration, nourishment, courage and hope, we are reminded of the infinite possibilities we have in returning endlessly to the natural world to embrace our human nature and reconnect with ourselves.

During the making of the work, Nandita felt supported and guided by the following poem by John O’Donahue, which she found in looking up, on the tube of the London Underground.

‘Time to be slow’

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pasture of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

(Excerpt from To Bless the Space Between Us: A book of Blessings)

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