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Creative Arts Explorations | Choreographic Ground
CHOREOGRAPHIC GROUND
A three-week workshop series on Choreographic processes.
Dates: 22nd May – 8th June, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: Mool
With this 3-week workshop series, we invite you to step into the mind of a choreographer and the body of a performer. Dance training often centers around technique, but this workshop seeks to expand beyond that—to explore performance as an act of listening, responding, and creating in real-time.
Drawing from my experience as both performer and choreographer, I see the performing body not just as skilled, but as sensitive and perceptive. Technique becomes a tool—one that supports, refines, or re-creates an experience—but it is the embodied presence that brings performance to life.
Through somatic practices, sensory explorations, text, sound, light, live composition tasks, writing, and discussion, we will embark on a creative process rooted in a central inquiry proposed by the facilitator—an inquiry that is also the foundation of their ongoing performance work.
Choreographic Ground aims to reveal diverse approaches to making, foster dialogue between dancers and choreographers, and open up space for collaboration and shared discovery.
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MAKING & BECOMING
Facilitator: Abhinaya Penneswaran
Dates: 22nd May – 25th May, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
This workshop explores the journey of transforming a classical Bharatanatyam piece into contemporary movement vocabularies through the work Life in Waiting. Participants will explore how emotive embodiment and intuitive composition can emerge through improvisation and memory.
Themes Covered:
- Emotive embodiment
- Improvised movement composition
- Translating memory and waiting into movement
Who is it for?
Movement and theatre practitioners looking to explore new methods of performance-making, or newcomers curious to engage with choreographic processes in an intuitive way.
About the Facilitator:
Abhinaya is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in New Delhi. She teaches at Ashoka University and works across Contemporary Dance, Bharatanatyam, Yoga, and Somatic practices.
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THE ALCHEMY OF MAKING: ANGDAAI SERIES
Facilitator: Vaishnavi Mannava
Dates: 29th May – 1st June, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
An intimate exploration of Vaishnavi’s Angdaai practice, this workshop offers tools to turn feeling into form through interdisciplinary collaboration and embodied research. Participants will move through phases of self-discovery, ideation, co-creation, and refinement.
Workshop Structure:
- Day 1: The First Stretch – Reconnecting with the body’s natural intelligence
- Day 2: Sensing the Invisible – Giving shape to feeling through visual and spatial methods
- Day 3: Entangling with Others – Building collaborative choreography
- Day 4: Repetition & Refinement – Finding rhythm, resonance, and performance logic
Who is it for?
Artists, facilitators, and curious makers looking for embodied, interdisciplinary approaches to creative process and collaboration.
About the Facilitator:
Vaishnavi is a multi-disciplinary movement practitioner whose work is grounded in Bharatanatyam, contemporary dance, somatics, and psychological inquiry.
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UNFOLDING THE HERO
Facilitators: Akanksha Kumari & Jasmine Yadav
Dates: 5th June – 8th June, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
This workshop dives into personal and cultural notions of heroism—through movement, imagination, and embodied memory. Participants will investigate how quiet strength, vulnerability, and transformation can be embodied in movement.
Themes Covered:
- Personal stories of power and resilience
- Physicalizing the archetype of the ‘hero’
- Movement as a tool of playful discovery and empowerment
Who is it for?
Open to all (15+), especially those seeking to discover courage and strength within their own body. No prior dance experience needed—just curiosity and openness.
About the Facilitators:
Akanksha Kumari is a dancer, teacher, and writer based in Delhi, whose work challenges social stereotypes through movement.
Jasmine Yadav is a choreographer and performer interested in transformation, care, and the uncensored body. She is a PECDA 2024 awardee and a member of Khuli Khirkee.
Participation Details
- No prior dance training required, unless specified.
- Participants are encouraged to attend all days of the workshop they register for.
- Open to movers, performers, theatre practitioners, facilitators, interdisciplinary artists, and the movement-curious.
- Language of facilitation: English (with openness to multilingual sharing, especially in discussion).