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PROJECTS

C.TACTILE: A contemporary dance duet 
2024
Concept and Choreography

Grantee: G5A Performance Grant 

Premier December 2024​​

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Work-in-progress Performed at 

2023: Viewpoint, Harkat studios, Mumbai.

2024: Viewpoint, G5A Warehouse, Mumbai

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KCC ARTS FELLOWSHIP
 

2023 - 2024 

Recipient for Fellowship in Dance

Research paper titled 'Touch at the intersection of Gender & Performativity'

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WEFT- A JOURNEY OF SLOW CRAFTS
BY AVANTIKA BAHL

2022 - ongoing
As a 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.

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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

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INDENT LAB
SUPPORTED BY SWISS ARTS COUNCIL PROHELVETIA

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

As a 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.

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Performed at 

2018 Serendipity Arts Festival. Goa, India

2018 EARS- Europe Asia Roundtable sessions. Mumbai, India

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PHI
BY SHRUTI MARIA DATAR

WORK IN PROGRESS

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.

CHEER SYSTEM
BY AVANTIKA BAHL SITE SPECIFIC WORK

November 2016

A dynamic performance that moves through and between large scale instillations. The performance oscillates between set material and improvisational tasks.


Performed at

The Lost Party Arts Festival. India

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

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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

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