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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