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This choreographic work of contemporary dance interrogates the role of the body in consumer societies and its place in today’s world, shaped by cultural contexts.

Curated by:
Jayachandran Palazhy

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Superhero by Raghav Handa is a performance that explores the complexities of power, resilience, and human connection.

Curated by:
Jayachandran Palazhy

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Set within a historic Goan building, Razai is a multidisciplinary performance that fuses AI-generated music, projection-mapped visuals, and contemporary dance into a sensory and living tapestry.

Curated by:
Jayachandran Palazhy

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A dancer of extraordinary power and grace, Dickson Mbi conjures multiple identities in this spellbinding solo performance, inspired by a transformative journey to his ancestral home in Cameroon with symbolic figures of snake, tiger and a blind elder.

Curated by:
Jayachandran Palazhy

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This year’s residency invites choreographers to propose works-in-progress that embody the pulse of our times — responding through movement to themes such as climate crisis, war, division, migration, displacement, gender dynamics, and existential shifts.

Curated by:
Jayachandran Palazhy

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Samvatsar Katha is a vibrant visual journey through the changing seasons, inspired by Kalidas’ Ritusamhaar, Magh’s Shishupaalvadh, and Shudrak’s Padmapraabhritak, blending Sanskrit classics with Hindi translations to connect with contemporary audiences.

Curated by: 
Tanusree Shankar

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Nimbus uses clouds as a metaphor for the swirling and condensing of expectation and desire. Pallavi layers the relationships between movement, space and relationships between dancing bodies featuring Carnatic (South Indian) violin and Odissi (east Indian) rhythms.

Curated by: 
Tanusree Shankar

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This performance is inspired by a deeply personal moment with the performer’s grandmother, who at stage four Alzheimer’s, spoke a phrase that startled them: “Mein bijli hu” (I am lightning/current/electricity).

Curated by:
Ranjana Dave

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Using the themes of “silence” and “electricity”, the facilitator invites participants to experience different/opposing states of being through movement.

Curated by:
Ranjana Dave

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Paradox of Language is a choreographic and musical composition that brings together two performers in a precarious balance, or rather, negotiation of the space shared between one another and the one shared with the audience, inspired by Mizo folk practices and the embedded knowledge systems within them.

Curated by:
Ranjana Dave

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What happens when sound starts to move and movement begins to sing?

Curated by:
Ranjana Dave

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Bboy Benman, in his practice, draws on the everyday wins of being embedded within hip-hop culture.

Curated by:
Ranjana Dave

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Bboy Benman’s workshop offers participants an embodied understanding of hip hop culture and movement.

Curated by:
Ranjana Dave

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Embodied is an exploratory dialogue between a contemporary dancer and a classical dancer.

Curated by:
Geeta Chandran

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Through movement, sound, and silence, the performance asks: What do we revere in a goddess? What have we rejected in shaping the divine feminine? And what happens when divinity refuses to be soft? Bhagavathy is a journey into the ferocity of grace.

Curated by:
Geeta Chandran

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Ramman is an offshoot of a devotional movement that continues to be performed as an annual ritual ceremony, till date in Saloor-Dungra  and Dungri-Baroshi villages and partially as a tableau in about 15 villages of the region.

Curated by:
Geeta Chandran

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