How am I evolving?

So I've only got about 100+ more pages of the Ramayana. The last hundred pages has been one fight after another, so it's pretty intense. Personally, after watching the performance of Ramayana, and then reading the book, I would have really liked to see what could be done with a more action oriented staging. Admittedly, it would be hard to recreate the epic feel of Ramayana on stage without an extremely large budget.
But what I really want to talk about is how I am evolving as an artist, and at what point my dance becomes art instead of simply a series of memorized movements. It will be interesting to see what we are going to do in our performances a week from now, but my expectation is that we will combine our barathanathiam (sp?) steps into a short dance and perform to music. I noticed for the first time this weekend that I had begun to think of the movements as dance rather than memorized steps, because my roomate had indian techno playing (yeah he's into that) and I began to see how the rhythm and timing of the steps could match the music, and actually be flowing.
I'm also surprising myself slightly with an increased competence on the dance floor. To be fair, I'm still quite bad, but the dance moves are beginning to come out of me naturally, rather than with intense concentration trying to drag them up from my memory. I feel this would increase with more practice, but it's really hard to find the time and place for that.
I feel that the next step of my evolution is going to be turning that natural dance into an effective version of the Ramayana. I will write more on that once we start acting out specific scenes.