a cultural performance - la sa ra

saw a south-indian classical performer with a French artist dancing together to tunes from both countries, eyes flitting from one to the other sometimes it became difficult to follow both their movements together, as they played and fought one another, waited for their men, envied each other, their reactions varying one found one of the inevitable ways in which cultures coalesce people together, touch them unawares, the fuzzy boundaries of nations, and the beat of the inter-national or rather cross-national, if left to "la sa ra", at times during the performance, it felt god came and touched you