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A delicate balance between care and surrender.
This performance showcases the quiet peace that emerges from the repetition of actions. Gayatri Shetty’s solo centres around arranging and rearranging blocks and the underlying grief that comes with the knowledge of their inevitable collapse.
Playing with themes of labour and futility, performer and performance, this piece invites you to sit on three sides of the ‘stage’. A mode of close witnessing, where time, presence, and attention become part of the choreography itself. What begins as a study of systems and precision gradually unravels into an intimate dialogue with loss. It becomes a collective experience, the tussle between patience and uncertainty.
The ache of collapse, and the courage to rebuild.
This event is a part of our programming to celebrate World Dance Day 2026, ‘The Many Lives of Dance’.
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Gayatri Shetty
Gayatri Shetty is a Bangalore-based contemporary dance artist working across choreography, performance, and movement research. Her practice explores the body in relation to systems, repetition, and vulnerability, with a particular interest in presence, attention, and the shifting dynamics between connection and solitude.
She trained in movement arts at the Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts and has worked across diverse contexts including ensemble productions, site-responsive work, and independent choreographic research. She has collaborated with artists and collectives in India and internationally, including periods of training and artistic exchange in New York and Tel Aviv.
Gayatri is a founding member of Offstage – Grounds for Practice and part of the Bangalore-based Citizens of Stage Collective. In 2024 she received the Folios of Time residency grant from the Serendipity Arts Festival, and in 2025 she was selected as a Villa Swagatam laureate by the French Institute in India.
