SAVE THE DATE:
July 27, 2025
Interbeing 2025
Exciting events planned!
Stay tuned!
1770 W Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008
About Matrusena
Matrusena is a non-hierarchical space that celebrates everyone as a unique node of knowledge and learning. The seed of Matrusena has been germinating and finding roots for over several years. We have offered critical history courses for dancers since 2020. We are currently running our 6th 10-week critical theory course for dance practitioners from all over the world.
Matrusena believes in working alongside tradition while challenging the status quo. We foster spaces where critical research and movement inform each other to create artistic work that is meaningful to young audiences and creators in a global community. We believe our work will keep tradition fresh and fun. We do this through collaborations with artists, creators and thinkers from diverse creative fields. We also work with practitioners to fortify traditional methods of transmission with critical thinking. This, we believe, will create art practitioners who look at tradition as a jump board for new ideas than as an artifact that needs preservation.
Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible contribution!
DEEPA MAHADEVAN
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Recent Projects
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2013: Student dance collaborator, Vaishnavi Dornadula, presented a piece called, “Achi ladki”: a piece on feminism that exposed the different social expectations from different genders.
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2018: Student dance collaborator, Deeta Ganapathy, presented, “Chella Chella nai kutty” a piece that celebrated our non human friends and the profound life lessons they teach us all the time.
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2023: Student dance collaborator, Adhirai Karthik, presented, “Am I content, Am I free?” an exploration of the ever discontent human mind.
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2016, 2023: Our artistic director, Deepa Mahadevan, presented “Intimate fears”, a piece that opened up interpretations of traditional songs to present a narrative of domestic abuse.
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2022: Dancers from our professional dance ensemble, Kiran Umesh, Shruthi Aravindan, and Deepa Mahadevan presented “Finding You In I”, a piece that appealed to ideas of love, peace, acceptance and living in the present moment through dance, music and interactive theater.
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2024: Interbeing performance and cultural event
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Deepa Mahadevan has also collaborated with many artists, spaces, writers to find avenues where she can dive deep into her Bharatanatyam vocabulary and theoretical knowledge to explore new concepts and movement. Please visit deepamahadevan.com to read about a few of these projects.