Dec 12 2025 to Dec 12 2025 7:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Who is a hero without a villain?

Choreographer Raghav Handa explores the complexities of power through a deeply physical and theatrical vocabulary. The work unfolds in a world where the familiar slips into the uncanny, creating a charged landscape that both unsettles and mesmerises. Through bold movement, striking imagery, and layered symbolism, Handa probes the dualities we carry within us: strength and fragility, courage and fear, dominance and surrender.

Rather than offering clear answers, Superhero invites audiences to sit with ambiguity. What does it take to stand tall in a fractured world? Can heroism exist without shadow, conflict, or contradiction? And when power transforms from something possessed to something shared, who do we become? 

This event is in partnership with Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts. Superhero has been funded by Creative Australia and Centre for Australia-India Relations’ Maitri Grant program. Superhero is also supported by the Australian Consulate-General in Mumbai.

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Performers

Raghav Handa
Choreographer
Raghav Handa is a critically acclaimed choreographer and performer with training in modern and Indigenous contemporary dance. Over the last decade he has created a body of award-winning works inspired by his Indian heritage but featuring multifaceted, engaging explorations of modern Australian identity. With theatrical flamboyance, he employs diverse artistic media to create worlds rich with surreal imagery and symbolism. His works have been commissioned by the Art Galleries, contemporary dance companies, festivals and performance houses across Australia and Internationally.

Kiarn Doyle
Performer
Born in Mullumbimby (Bundjalung country) and raised in the Blue Mountains (Darug/ Gundungurra country), Kiarn Doyle is an Aboriginal man from the Dunghutti Nation. Kiarn trained at PAWS and then pursued full-time dance training at NAISDA Dance College. Kiarn received awards in Certificate III and IV in dance performance and graduated in 2019 with a Diploma of Dance. Kiarn joined Bangarra in 2020 as the Russell Page Graduate recipient.

Kai Taberner
Performer
Kai Taberner is a contemporary movement artist and choreographer. Kai graduated with Distinction with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) from QUT in Brisbane. Kai has performed with a range of dance companies and collectives including: Leviathan with Circa Contemporary Circus (2020), The Australian Ballet premiere of The Creatures of Prometheus by Jayden Grogan (2021), Cirque Bon Bon at Brisbane Powerhouse (2021), and lndependance with Phluxus2Dance Collective (2020 and 2021). Kai danced for Sydney Dance Company from 2022 – June 2023.  “Ab [Intra]” was his debut performance with SDC, having performed for esteemed choreographers including Rafael Bonachela, Stephanie Lake, Jenni Large, Charmene Yap and Antony Hamilton. Kai has also danced with Shaun Parker & company (2023) and has co-choreographed for Independance with Phluxus2Dance Collective (2023). Kai has also performed in Perth Fringe Festival (2024). Kai has a passion for understanding movement quality and limitations to cultivate creativity within his movement practice.

Hemabharathy Palani
Performer
Hemabharathy Palani remains as one of the longest-standing Attakkalari Dance Company dancers, now a rehearsal director and a faculty with Attakkalari Centre of Movement Arts. She has created solo pieces like  “Chaaya”, “Uruvam” and “Yashti” and a trio “Twine”. Recently she did “-scape’ as a collaborative duet with Japanese choreographer and dancer Ryu Suzuki.  She has also choreographed and performed in dance films such as  Toss for Dance Umbrella (London) and Fuel Theatre (UK)  and “Ek Choti Si Asha” with British filmmakers Rachel Davies and Daniel Saul for Big Dance and Channel 4 TV. During pandemic she created the dance film “ Salt & Sugar” commissioned by Fuel Theatre which was directed by Jain J Abraham

Snigdha Prabhakar
Performer
Snigdha Prabhakar is a Bangalore-based contemporary dancer, choreographer and teacher. She trained in Bharatanatyam for seven years in her early years, followed by Street forms, namely House and Breaking. Her formal contemporary dance training was at the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, where she worked as one of the principal dancers for five years. Snigdha has toured extensively across Europe, China and Canada as one of the main casts for several company dance productions. She is an awarded performer at the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards (PECDA 2018) for her work, Rihai. Her current independent artistic collaboration includes most work with a Bangalore-based dance collective called Citizens of Stage Co Lab. Absence Presence (site-specific piece) choreographed by Sonia Rodrguez Hernandez, ISSHH(क), a production choreographed by Nicole Sieler, Einstein’s Dreams by Bangalore Little Theatre, End Of The Wall by Atalya Baumer and Tamar Mayz, How Long is Forever by Priyabrat Panigrahi, A Pair of Wings I Wish For by Silk Route Theatre, Persistence of being by Abhilash Ningappa are some of her independent collaborations. Snigdha’s choreographic works are Relax into Your Being, Devi, The Sun’s Child, and Rihai.

Shivaranjan N S
Performer
Shivaranjan is a dancer, choreographer and a civil engineer. Before joining Attakkalari he was doing freestyle, and joined contemporary classes at Attakkalari. He proceeded to pursue the Diploma at Attakkalari after which he has been working and engaged in different projects at and with Attakkalari.