Jan 23 2026 to Jan 23 2026 5 p.m.

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Where

Sabha Blr

No.44/A, Kamaraj Road, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru 560042

Event Description

A contemplative performance inquiry by dancer and designer Miti Desai, marking a return to movement after a pause. Rooted in the classical language of Mohiniattam (a dance form from Kerala), the work does not seek continuity but re-entry, approaching the form as unfamiliar terrain. It engages with memory, resistance, vulnerability, and restraint, situating dance within the often-unseen spaces of stillness and recalibration. Here, pause is Generative Inactivity: a state of attentive listening where stillness and action continually nourish one another. Movement unfolds in dialogue with spatial awareness, where the design lens becomes an active presence.

Emerging from this threshold, the project questions inherited notions of virtuosity and outward spectacle, instead turning toward process, presence, and distilled intention. Drawing from the artist’s practices in both dance and design, the choreography pares classical vocabulary to its essence, reassessing form, function, and meaning. At its core, The RE:Moving Project treats the contested idea of tradition as a living, negotiable system anchored in lineage yet shaped by interruption and lived experience. Unfolding through three interlinked explorations: The Churning, The Temptress, and The Awakening. The work invokes the auspicious form of Lakshmi as a shifting energy of desire, illusion, abundance, and transformation, inviting the audience into cycles of stillness and motion where personal and cultural narratives quietly surface.

A movement and spatial design exploration grounded in, and re-imagined through, the vocabulary of Mohiniattam. A contemplative performance inquiry.

CREDITS:

Concept, Choreography & Performance: Miti Desai

Music Composition & Voice: Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy

Veena: Kadambhari Venkatraman

Percussion: Edakkya, Ganjira; Handsonic, Rhythm Programming  - Arundas Sruthilaya

Music Editing, Mixing & Mastering: Sridhar Varadarajan

Jati Composition: Vinaya Narayanan

Lighting Design: Keerthi Kumar

Backdrop

Concept & Design: Miti Desai

Animation: Raj Shekhar

Promotional Photography: Arvind Sridhar

Production & Management: Alif

Reference & Inspiration: The Legend of the Goddess  -  Om Swami