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Step In the Frame
A Double Bill of Contemporary Dance
Performers
This two-piece contemporary dance performance explores the body’s inner battles and breakthroughs. While one piece unravels self-doubt; the other captures the pulse of transformation.
Metamorphosis
The dancers explore the reactions of what happens when one goes through the process of transformation. How does one’s body’s senses and feelings react through this unending loop between creation of new patterns, destruction, and recreation of one another. Metamorphosis dives deep into the question of how a pattern impacts the body? And during the period of transition when old patterns are fading away and the new self is finding its expression in the world, what is then your relationship to the changed self, and how does your body respond to this change? What is this new self? Is it an add-on to the old pattern or a breakaway into something new?
Lost in Oscillation
This piece carries us into the surreal world of self-doubt; shifting, strange, and deeply personal. The dancer moves through a dreamlike space, where self-doubt becomes a physical presence that twists the body and unsettles the mind. Reflections fragment across the stage, echoing the dancer’s inner conflict. Movements swing between sharp tension and quiet stillness, capturing the push and pull of uncertainty. With haunting sound and abstract visuals, the piece invites you into a world where even your own reflection feels unfamiliar. It’s not just a performance—it’s a glimpse into the shifting terrain of the self.
The peformance will be followed by a short interaction with the audience.
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Performers
Papia Chakraborty
Papia Chakraborty is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and movement artist from Kolkata, now based in Bangalore, with 16 years of Kathak training and a diploma in Movement Art from The Rhythmosaic Dance Institute. She has also completed a certificate course in choreographic approaches from Gati Dance Forum. Over her seven years of contemporary dance training, Papia has been deeply invested in bridging Kathak with contemporary dance, focusing on the transformation of physical expression into a distinctive movement language.
Her choreographic works are inspired by immediate surroundings, addressing themes of gender identity, human emotions, and the climate crisis. By observing behavioral patterns, incorporating martial arts, sports activities, and elemental movements, she creates relatable experiences where audiences can see themselves reflected. Her research begins with questioning her own intentions, delving deeper to uncover universal concerns that resonate with diverse audiences. Papia integrates AI, shape exploration, shadow play, and impromptu text into her movement research, pushing the boundaries of performance art.
Her recent works include Metamorphosis and Where do I come from? Where do I go? Through these, she explores identity and the environmental weight we carry, engaging viewers in profound conversations about sustainability and self awareness. Her work is part of PECDA, Manifest Dance and Film Festival, Dance Bridges Festival, Electronica Festival, Be Fantastic Festival.
Surendra Tekale
Surendra Tekale is a multidisciplinary theatre and movement artist from India with experience across theatre, contemporary dance, and physical performance. His practice merges Indian martial arts, classical forms, experimental dance, and physical theatre to create performances that explore socio-political, environmental, and personal themes.
He has trained intensively at both Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (India) and Performact (Portugal), and has performed and taught internationally across India, France, Portugal, Japan, and Austria. Surendra’s choreographic works, such as “Chadara” (selected for TJ Night Festival, Mexico) and “Lost in Oscillation”, have been staged at leading festivals like Dance Bridges Festival. he has also been a part of PECDA, Impulstanz (Vienna), and Awaji Art Circus (Japan).
Chetan Yeragea
Chetan Yeragea has been dancing from a young age and he trained himself for 8 years in street dance, hip hop and acrobatics. He entered into his first professional school called Attakkalari in Bangalore India – 2016. He graduated with a diploma in performing arts and multimedia in 2018. He also worked as a company dancer in Attakkalari, performing all over the region.
Further studies moved him to Salzburg for SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in 2018. In his education program he had workshops with Eduardo Torroja (Ultimavez´s repertory “what the body does not remember”) , Edivaldo Ernesto (flying low and depth movement), Isaac Spencer ( repertory “point of eclipse”), and various other choreographers and teachers from all over the world.
