Speaker
To pause is political. To act with intention is radical.
This talk explores the power of moving deliberately in an age of speed. Passivity and pause are often mistaken, and Masoom Parmar is here to set the record straight.
Weaving the practical and the theoretical together, they unpack the nuances of the slow and intentional movements in dance. Invoking Indian temple and court movements, Parmar also brings in ethnographic and theological perspectives, to ask questions around whose bodies are allowed to pause, what attention does to the performer-audience relationship, and how inherited movement vocabularies carry cultural memory.
They will take audience questions at the end.
This event is a part of our programming to celebrate World Dance Day 2026, ‘The Many Lives of Dance’.
Speaker
Masoom Parmar
Masoom Parmar is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and producer based in Bengaluru. Parmar’s practice lies at the intersection of dance, ethnography and literature with an embodied training in the traditional Indic temple and court dancing, Mevlevi Sufi tradition, and Haṭha yoga. Their work delves into the human body as a cultural and performative subject, examining themes of identity, gender, and social constructs. Parmar is also the founder-director of Bengaluru based arts management company, Alif.
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