Apr 26 2026 to May 03 2026 11:30 a.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The Many Lives of Dance is a series of events commemorating International Dance Day, celebrating the diverse ways in which dance lives, evolves, and resonates across contexts. It brings together artists, scholars, and practitioners, to explore how dance moves from being a specialised, codified practice to a shared, social, and deeply personal experience.

While dance is explored as a rigorous system of knowledge, where technique, philosophy, and discipline shape the dancing body, it is also something that circulates through communities and everyday life through rhythm, presence, and collective energy. This series aims to enquire and build the bridge between personal movement languages that become powerful ways of seeing and feeling the world.

Each event offers a distinct lens, inviting audiences to engage with dance as a living, breathing practice that continually transforms with time, place, and people.

Date    Event    Artist    Nature    Timing
Apr 26    Perspectives on Bharata Natyam    Leela Samson    Lecture Demonstration    11:30am – 1pm
Apr 26    Sole to Soul    Janani Kalasutra    Workshop    4pm – 5:30pm
Apr 27    Dāri | The Path    Avijit Das, Varsha, Greeshma and Abhirami    Performance    7pm – 8:30pm
Apr 28    Thehraav    Masoom Parmar    Talk    6:30pm – 8pm
Apr 29    What Holds    Gayatri Shetty    Performance    7pm – 8:15pm
Apr 30    The Living Dance    Sneha Kappanna    Workshop    6:30pm – 8:30pm
May 1    Illuminating Dance    Niranjan Gokhale    Lecture Demonstration    2pm – 4pm
May 1    Why Dance When No One is Watching ?    Diya Naidu    Lecture Demonstration    6:30pm – 8:30pm
May 2    Body as Resource    Preethi Rajagopalan    Workshop    3pm – 5pm
May 3    Gabbu Kathe    Keerthi Kumar and Roopa Krishnamurthy    Performance    11:30am – 12:30pm
More details will follow shortly.