How her love for the performing arts made Tripura Kashyap use dance as a therapeutic intervention
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“My wheelchair-bound younger brother loved music. As he listened to his favourite tunes, he would use his upper body and hands to bang at his wheelchair and almost fall out from it. Sometimes we would sway our bodies together to the songs he loved, he seemed so enthralled with the whole idea.”
“A second instance is what happened to me while I was getting trained in classical dance at Kalakshetra, an arts college in Chennai. I noticed some visually impaired boys learning to sing and play the flute. It was amazing to see their bodies too move to the music they were playing,” says Tripura Kashyap, a popular dance therapist who soon started exploring the possibilities of making movement experiences useful for people with both mental and physical challenges.