A dance to celebrate Mother Earth at the George Town Festival

Multidisciplinary production 'bhumiMATA', with a predominantly Penang-based cast, celebrates elements of classical, ritualistic, and contemporary dance forms. It is one of the George Town Festival's closing weekend highlights. Photo: David and Esther Khoo

For the unacquainted, bhumi mata means “Mother Earth”. The first thoughts that come to mind when one thinks about Mother Earth would most likely be topics about the environment and climate change.

While that is not wrong, the multidisciplinary production bhumiMATA seeks to go deeper than that.