Performances
Attakkalari India Biennial 2021/2022

Fri, 07.01.2022 -
Tue, 15.02.2022
Multiple venues

We are happy to collaborate once again with the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts to present the tenth edition of the Attakkalari India Biennial. This edition has been supported by the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 2021 of the Goethe-Institut, the Federal Foreign Office and other partner institutions.

Attakkalari India Biennale (AIB), conceived by our longstanding dance partner Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (ACMA) is a festival of contemporary dance movement and digital art, held in Bangalore since 2000. It is a unique platform for new impulses in the field of contemporary dance, digital art and research in South Asia. Renowned artists from all over the world participate in the Biennale. 

The festival was created with the aim of promoting interaction and exchange of ideas between artists from different cultures and facilitating international co-productions and collaborative projects. The festival usually lasts over a few weeks and offers a number of events in addition to the dance performances such as workshops, discussions, film screenings and others. 

This year, the festival takes a fresh approach by adapting to the new demands of a world recovering from a pandemic. With INSPIRE BENGALURU: A Transglocal Community Arts Initiative as its guiding theme, AIB 2021-22 will have a hybrid avatar to fulfill protocols and create new ways of collaborating and celebrating the best that the world of movement arts has to offer. 

AIB 2021/22 opens on January 7 with the premier of Sthavara-Jangama. This dance performance explores human relationships to landscapes and built architectures as repositories of memories, as well as symbols of the status quo, while also examining the evolution of our lives and its unpredictable transitions, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By placing live actions of the dancers and musicians in the chosen areas of the venue, where digitally processed moving images by acclaimed German digital artist Christian Ziegler are projected, this site-inspired piece, choreographed by internationally celebrated dancer and choreographer Jayachandran Palazhy, will help the spectators to experience different locations and times.

Event details:
January 7, 2022, 6.30 p.m. at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC), Domlur
Tickets available on instamojo 

Team:
Choreography - Jayachandran Palazhy
Music - MD Pallavi and Bindhumalini
Digital Imagery - Christian Ziegler
Consultant on text, literature & heritage - HS Shivaprakash
Costumes - Aloka D'souza
Lighting - Shymon Chelad
The AIB Open Studio 2022 is a set of original performances by emerging Indian contemporary and classical dancers.

The AIB Open Studio was envisioned as a talent incubator that invited dance professionals, choreographers, dance artists and groups pan-India to present their latest works. The performances that will be presented have been shortlisted from an overwhelming number of submissions received.

Open Studio Day 1 will feature Deepanwita Roy and Pintu Das and on Day 2, you can watch performances by Ainesh Madan and Dileep Chilanka.

Event details:
January 10 & 12, 2022, 7.30 p.m. at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Wilson Garden
Tickets available on instamojo.

© Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts

Platform has been a constant leitmotif of Attakkalari India Biennial. A program envisioned to nurture emerging talent in the contemporary movement arts and dance making space in South Asia, past editions have seen original ideas and fresh choreographies being presented by young dancers and choreographers from the south Asian region.

After a competitive selection process, Platform 22 features four incredibly talented, award-winning dancers who will premiere their full-length independent choreographies on the venerable stage.

Line Up for Platform 22 - 1:
How Long is Forever by Priyabrat Panigrahi of Citizens of Stage CoLab, Bangalore
Shifting Sands by Sanjukta Sinha of Sanjukta Sinha Dance Company, Ahmedabad

Event details:
January 11, 2022, 7.30 p.m. at Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Tickets available on instamojo

For more details about the AIB, click here.