Apr 12 2025 to Apr 12 2025 2 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

This workshop offers a guided exploration of touch as a deeply layered experience—one that goes beyond physical sensation to shape our emotions, relationships, and social structures. Through movement-based exercises, reflective discussions, and sensory explorations, participants will investigate how touch operates as a form of communication, connection, and control.

The session will begin by tuning into personal touch awareness, examining how we perceive, give, and receive touch. Through guided improvisations and partner exercises, we will explore touch as a medium of trust, care, and negotiation, uncovering its role in shaping movement and presence.

The workshop will also address the socio-political dimensions of touch—how it is conditioned by cultural norms, history, and systems of power. Through structured activities, participants will physically engage with questions of consent, hierarchy, and agency.

Participants will be guided to embody and express these ideas through movement, fostering a deeper understanding of how the act of touch manifests through the body and shapes our interactions with the world around us.

Facilitator

Shruti Maria Datar
Performer, Choreographer and Arts Manager
Shruti Maria Datar is a Mumbai based Indian Performer, Choreographer and Arts Manager. She has completed her Professional Training in Contemporary Dance from Danscentrumjette, Belgium and holds a Diploma in Movement Arts from Centre for Movement Arts,Bangalore. She received the G5A Performance Grant for the season 24/25 to premier her choreographic work C.Tactile in December 20204. She is the recipient of the prestigious KCC Arts Fellowship for the year 2023-24.

Her performances delve deeply into themes of identity, culture, and personal expression, weaving together her own lived experiences with broader societal narratives. Navigating complex themes such as gender, memory, and social norms she invites her audiences into a space of introspection and dialogue.