Apr 29 2025 to Apr 29 2025 6 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

A Meeting is embedded in the tumultuous emotional and physical dynamics between its two characters, highlighting the complexities of human connection and the emotional landscape of desire and disconnection. What connections are able to form if we simply allow and make space and stop? It evokes reflection on the meaning of love, the nature of relationships and the interplay between connection and solitude. The dancers will meet themselves from different timelines of their life and what happens to the present when the past and future meet. It is a love letter to all that once was and is.
Dancers will draw from their own lives to showcase the push and pull of relationships, emphasizing moments of intense connection, followed by periods of emotional and physical dissonance, reflecting their internal and external conflicts.
At a point in this world when our global unity and resistance is so essential, our daily human connections seem to be falling apart. This piece is a shared yearning and longing for each other, its one for hope, loss and desire for freedom.

This event is part of our International Dance Day celebrations Echoes of the Moving Body.

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Performers

Gayatri Shetty
Performance Artist & Dancer
Gayatri Shetty is a performance artist/ dancer from Bangalore. She received her BA in Performing Arts and Psychology in 2018 from Christ University. and Diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media at the Attakkalari Center of Movement Arts in 2019 with distinction. In 2024 she was awarded the Folios of Time residential grant from Serendipity Arts for the research of her newest production A Meeting.
She trained at Gibney Dance, New York for 9 months in 2020. During her time in New York she worked with Wild She Dances and Phyllis Rose Dance Company. She also spent her time there learning and studying to teach mat pilates. She went to Tel Aviv to do Gaga under choreographer Ohad Naharin in 2023.

She is currently a part of the Bangalore based collective “Citizens of stage Co Lab” founded by Diya Naidu. She has been part of many productions and performed in several festivals and spaces.

Ronita Mookerji
Choreographer & Performer
Ronita Mookerji is an award-winning Choreographer and Performer and works as an Independent Contemporary Dance Artist/Teacher/Movement Director in Interdisciplinary arts (including Martial Art Kalaripayattu) for over 16 years now. She is trained in Bharatanatyam for over 25 years and Odissi for 2 years. She completed the Diploma at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in 2008 and worked with the Attakkalari Repertoire from 2009-2016. Her performance works and physical workshops/choreographies has travelled to Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, S.Korea, Singapore, Taiwan among others. She has taught the Module ” Movement for Actors” for the P.G. Course for Actors and Theatre Makers in Drama School Mumbai ( 2023-24) and Film And Television Institute of India, Pune.
She has also taught in the B.A program for Performing Arts in Ambedkar University, Delhi and M.A. in Performing Arts program in Christ University, Bangalore. She is a Teacher for over two decades teaching several forms – Bharatanatyam,Contemporary, Kalaripayattu, Yoga.
She is certified in L1 Instructor in Animal Flow.
 www.ronitamookerji.com