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between continuing to grow a company or grow a family.This is one of the topics that infuses my new work, Motherland. In my own company we take children on tour with us. There are actually two children in the show. We have policies to make it easier for women to come back to work in mid-30s, late Õ30s, early Õ40s. I put it in as a budget line to draw attention to it. We bring families over with us from Poland and Costa Rica. But since they are artists IÕve worked with for a long time I am willing to bring them, and invest !nancial support to allow that to happen. ItÕs as much a kind of standpoint as anything else.Aurora Lubos, who has worked with me for 11 or 12 years now, has two children. We will put up her entire fam-ily, both when sheÕs over here in England and on tour. My business plan for the next three years doesnÕt only talk about making work. It talks about mentoring younger, emerging practitioners. It talks about female leadership. WeÕre going to do a big piece of industry research on that next year. IÕm slightly nervous about that because I want to ces in order for her family to thrive. I feel compassion for women who want the same things in India and all over the world but canÕt articulate that.My parents thought I was dancing as a hobby. In their generation back in India, you did art only if you didnÕt have the grades to get into more academic !elds. They were concerned with how this would look to their community of Indian families. To the adults I had grown up calling aunty and uncle, I had fallen.IÕve always been interested in many artistic disciplines. I love percussion, dance, vocals, and acting. I wasnÕt able to !nd just one platform where I could convey everything that I wanted, so a combined approach seemed like a natural choice. By delving into each speci!c character, IÕm able to connect to universal themes across cultures. ÕÀÀi˜ÃŒÃŠÂ«Ã€œiVÌ\ÊIÕll be going to Amsterdam, where IÕm presenting Bahu-Beti-Biwi in an intercultural residency, lling place to live and create from."When determining if a work is heading in the right direction or if a character is coming from a place of truth, you have to check in with your heart, your gut, and your in-stincts. Usually the answer is simple, but we tend to confuse those messages with outside commentaryÑwhat the audi-ence may say, what the artist next to you might be doing, and the context in which the performance will be shared. The same is true when questioning oneÕs sexuality. You