"Dance is essentially perceived as a spectacle, but for me, it is transformation. And achieving that one moment of transformation on the stage requires years of work," says kathak artiste Sanjukta Wagh. But this personal journey of an artiste often remains in the dark for the audience, who buy tickets to a performance, watch it and see the artiste again only at the next show.

It was with this idea of sharing the process before and after a performance that Wagh co-founded the interdisciplinary initiative, Beej, in 2005. Parallel Journeys is a new series of conversations curated by Beej, which will see two artistes come together to offer an insight into their professional trajectory, their evolution as practitioners of an art form, and their struggles. "We believe that the performance is only a part of the journey, while 90 per cent of it is the process. We wanted to start conversations around the process," says Wagh.