A decade ago, Paramita Saha, worked on a project that posed the question, ‘How can art be a tool and a starting point for dialogue around the environment?’ that drove Saha’s career. Tomorrow Detritus, a dance performance directed by Saha that highlights our use and throw culture of consumption, travels to Mumbai for its city debut after 11 performances in Kolkata and Delhi. The multi-format piece is choreographed by Surjit Nongmeikapam and Prashant More, with dramaturge Diya Naidu and music by Karshni Nair.

Saha explains about the theme, as the show’s tagline mentions — We are what we throw away, “Waste is often things that we don’t use or we can’t use. If we can’t use it, why did we have it in the first place? We use part of what we get, for instance, a bread packet. We use the bread and the plastic packet is left behind. Are we thinking of what is left after use and where that is going?” Saha reminds us that there is another parallel world outside of us that requires our consideration. “This hybrid way of looking at the world is something that we have lost.”