Azad was the name of Lila Magnin’s gre­at-grand­mo­ther. The word also means ​“free. In this solo, Lila explo­res the com­plexi­ties of femi­ni­ni­ty in a world that does not under­stand all the issues. Couldn’t this body, which is con­stant­ly refer­red to as a bur­den, actu­al­ly hide a sour­ce of power? Perhaps it is beyond the phy­si­cal body that this power lies? In an in-bet­ween, bet­ween mas­cu­li­ne and femi­ni­ne, whe­re the tracks are blur­red, con­fu­sed and dif­fe­rent­ly qualified?

Azad is com­po­sed of a per­so­nal gestu­re that swit­ches from one form to ano­ther, from one ener­gy to ano­ther, from one sta­te to ano­ther. From vog­uing to break dan­ce, from Bharata Natyam to hip hop, from stand-up to street show, from gra­vi­ty to lightness. It is a human sto­ry beyond gender.