INTERNATIONAL YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS PLATFORM 2026 - TAIWAN
Role: Invited Choreographer
This project organized by MyDanceAlliance, Malaysia and is supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Bureau Culture Affairs of Kaohsiung City Government, and the Chin-Lin Foundation for Culture and Arts in Taiwan. Choreographers are nominated and invited from Asia-Pacific countries to create a short work on Taiwanese dancers during the 3-week project.
INDIA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS; GRANT RECIPIENT 2025-2026
Under the Arts Research Program ( ongoing project)
Through engagement with elders, archival research and oral histories, movement and dance will serve as a medium for embodying and reinterpreting their evolving heritage amidst urbanisation. Culminating in a multimedia performance comprising soundscapes, video art and contemporary dance.
C.TACTILE: A contemporary dance duet ( ongoing tour )
Grantee: G5A Performance Grant 2025
Role: Concept, Choreography, Performance & Production.
Performed at:
Premier December 2024, G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, Mumbai, India.
2025 April : Medai Black Box, Bengaluru, India
2025 April: Bangalore International Centre, Bengaluru, India
2025 August: At the Still Point, Goethe institut Kolkata, India
2025 August: Arthshila – A multi arts centre, Santiniketan, Kolkata, India
2025 November: Oddbird Theatre, Delhi, India.
2025 November: Museum of Goa, India.
2025 November: Movement Festival Of Kerala, Kochi, India.
2026 April: Alti Palti Alternative Arts Festival, Mumbai, India.
PRIME - A Contemporary Dance Performance ( ongoing )
2025 - Ongoing
Role: Rehearsal Director
Performed at
2025 September: IF.BE Mumbai, India
2025 November: NCPA, Mumbai, India
2026 March: Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards, Bangalore, India
2026 March: Goethe Institut, Chennai, India
KCC ARTS FELLOWSHIP
2023 - 2024
Recipient for Fellowship in Dance
Research paper titled 'Touch at the intersection of Gender & Performativity'
WEFT- A JOURNEY OF SLOW CRAFTS
BY AVANTIKA BAHL
2022 - 2023
Role: Collaborator and performer
An Immersive moving instillation
performance, Weft draws inspiration from traditional, slow handicrafts. Using multiple motifs, the performers tell stories of support, community and tradition in the journey from thread to textile.
Performed at
2023 Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center, Mumbai, India.
2022 Kula Arts Festival, Mumbai, India.
2022 Pratyna Festival of Contemporary Dance. Pune, India.
2022 The Corona Quilt Project by Lady Bamford Foundation at Nila house Jaipur, India
INDENT LAB
SUPPORTED BY SWISS ARTS COUNCIL PROHELVETIA
Role: Invited Participant
June 2022
Indent is a space of introspection and imagination, of shared thinking. It is run as a four-day hybrid lab. The lab is a space for artists coming from diverse creative practices and offera participants a space to propose and workshop experimental ideas that are yet in-the-making. The lab commits to enabling exchange that will help sharpen individual artistic queries and widen approaches in the journey to that last, lasting telos.
LOOK LEFT TURN RIGHT BY AVANTIKA BAHL
Role: Collaborator and performer
October 2018- December 2018
'Look Left, Turn Right' is a site-specific intervention that questions the fine line between functionality and performativity in movement.
Performed at
2018 Serendipity Arts Festival. Goa, India
2018 EARS- Europe Asia Roundtable sessions. Mumbai, India
PHI
BY SHRUTI MARIA DATAR
WORK IN PROGRESS
Role: Concept & Choreography
September 2016
‘Phi’ is a Contemporary dance piece which aims to abstract images and providing the viewer with different perspectives to the female body. Exploring ideas of perfection and proportion in relation to images and stories. The piece aims to mimic these very images and deconstruct them. What are the implications of these images? What is perfection? Are some of the questions explored through the work.
TEACHING WORK
Relevant Projects List
ongoing
ICMD: INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN DANCE, MUMBAI
Contemporary Dance teacher
Choreographed work: 440 sq ft
July 2022 - September 2022
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY DANCE, PUNE
Foundations in Contemporary Dance:
technique and creative practice, culminating in a performance
2016-2019
FUTURE SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
Contemporary Dance technique focusing on floor work
2014-2019
DANSEZ L'INDE, BELGIUM
Teaching, choreography and performance
March 2017
FLYING LOW- TEACHING TOUR
Delhi: Saadya Dance company
Urshilla Dance company
Danza Performing Arts
Kolkata: Rhythmosaic Dance school
Mumbai: Terence Lewis Dance company
Twins Dance arts studio