India, Sept. 14 -- These days choreographer and dance practitioner Avantika Bahl is buoyed up with the idea of exploring the many possibilities of dance. Bahl has been preoccupied with making performances inclusive, challenging mainstream ideas, through her project titled Prime, which challenges the idea of ageing in dance. "It does not lean on the rhetoric of spectacle or virtuosity, but asks a deceptively simple question -- what happens when dancers age," says Avantika.

Incubated a year ago, the production Prime will be presented in the city next week, with a motley group of 60-plus dancers.

Bodies peak young and fade. Careers are short-lived and dancers bow out with age. "It is almost as if dance has an expiry date," says Avantika. "...