About the Project
She arrived with a visa, a suitcase, and a nervous system no one warned her about.
Split: Between Two Nervous Systems is a sixty-minute solo dance theatre performance by Dr. Dimple Kaur, Artist, choreographer, therapist, mother, and immigrant.
Through classical Indian dance, raw movement, and searingly personal storytelling, Dr. Kaur maps the hidden interior of a woman who learned fast that in a new country that the safest thing she can do is smile. That smiling, practiced long enough, becomes its own quiet erosion.
The performance moves through a series of defining moments- A stranger on a Newport Beach. Eleven months horizontal, body failing, wondering if this is simply where the story ends. A festive celebration where her cultural offering is literally spat out in front of her. And finally a rehearsal room, alone, dancing with her Spirit, without an audience, without having to be impressive for anyone.
Split does not traffic in easy triumph. There is no tidy arc where adversity becomes inspiration. Instead, it offers something far more honest and far more human. This is a performance for anyone who has ever felt divided between who they were and who they had to become. Between belonging somewhere and belonging to themselves. Between surviving and actually being alive. You do not need to be an immigrant to recognize that split. You only need to have ever performed a version of yourself that wasn’t quite true.
Rooted in the ancient ritual language of Natyam and the fierce intimacy of contemporary solo theatre, Split is simultaneously a cultural meditation, a psychological excavation, and a quietly radical act of self-reclamation.
It is also, unexpectedly, very funny in places. And devastating in others. Sometimes within the same breath.
Running time: 60 minutes. No intermission.
Content note: This performance includes themes of racial microaggressions, mental health, and chronic illness.
Shows:
June 9 – 6:30 pm
June 14 – 6:15 pm
June 20 – 4:30 pm
About Dimple
Dr. Dimple Kaur is a psychologist, somatic movement educator, and Bharatanatyam artist with over 30 years of classical training and two decades in clinical and somatic practice. She holds a PhD in Psychology and is completing a second doctorate (PsyD) in clinical specialization, alongside master’s degrees in Bharatanatyam and English, and is a Master Trainer in Clinical Hypnotherapy and a Registered Somatic Dance Educator (RSDE). Through her practice as a psychotherapist, she developed Applied Natya Therapy – an original framework integrating classical Natya with somatic movement and polyvagal theory. SPLIT: Between Two Nervous Systems is her world-premiere solo work, drawing on that framework and her own story to explore migration, complex trauma, and nervous-system recovery through the body.
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