On the spectrum of Indian performing arts, the classical and folk traditions occupy opposite ends. And given our dominant cultural practices, the twain seldom meet. But where there is art and minds open to dialogue, collaborations are a natural corollary - as it was in the case of Carnatic vocalist, writer and social activist TM Krishna and Kattaikkuttu actor, director and playwright P Rajagopal. Both artistes had attended and performed in each other's annual festivals, and sometime in 2015, the idea of doing something together was born.

The next year was about the Chennai-based musician couple Krishna and Sangeetha Sivakumar travelling to the Kattaikkuttu Sangam school in Kanchipuram, founded by Rajagopal and his dramaturge wife Hanne M de Bruin, "to explore the contours of each other's aesthetic, social and political worlds," as Krishna puts it.