Various Artists
These works explore how movement is shaped by space—architectural, natural, urban, or imagined. The camera becomes a choreographic partner, revealing new relationships between body, site, and time. Here, dance film is less about documentation and more about spatial dialogue and cinematic composition.
Dis Connection by Carlito Catalano (8 minutes 40 seconds)
Movements in Transition by Sudhir Ambasana and Sayli Kulkarni (8 minutes)
The Whispers of the Cage by Vaishnavi Dhore (12 minutes 28 seconds)
Ceremony of the Crows by Nikolina Nikoleski and Priyasha Bhardwaj (3 minutes 55 seconds)
Mangalore – The Sky and the Sea by Luke Sydney (4 minutes)
Apavarga by Sairam Kannan (4 minutes 13 seconds)
Rooted in introspection and personal experience, these films offer quiet, poetic encounters with identity, memory, desire, and transformation. Movement emerges as thought, feeling, and vulnerability—inviting audiences into intimate landscapes where the body reflects inner states rather than external narratives.
Sooo Extra by Vinay Bhaskar Survi & Poshini Zunjarwad (35 minutes)
Dekho Main Hoon by Gia Singh Arora (22 minutes)
(Re)United by Alleyne Dance (18 minutes)
Bhoboghure – The Flânerie by Pragna Das (12 minutes)
UDAAN- The Fight of Flight by Pritam Das (19 minutes 54 seconds)
Salt and Sugar by Hemabharathy Palani (22 minutes 55 seconds)
Thamayu Aada by Anna Rose & Ayman Hamzaki (16 minutes 30 seconds)
Unskinned by Priya Agarwal
The Door by Priya Agarwal (1 minute 29 seconds)
We have come together to fall apart by Aurora Brocchi (6 minutes)
I Summon You by Jeremy Ho & Liz Sergeant Tan (14 minutes 11 seconds)
Sunday’s programme moves outward into space and then inward into reflection—ending the festival on intimacy, vulnerability, and unresolved becoming rather than formal closure.
Dance on Screen at BLR Hubba / Nartisu is imagined not as a showcase of finished works, but as a meeting ground—where bodies, histories, spaces, and inner worlds encounter one another through the cinematic lens.
The four curatorial sections—Lineage, Memory & the Classical Body; Myth, Shakti & Reimagined Feminine Worlds; Body, Space & the Cinematic Encounter; and Inner Worlds, Identity & Becoming—reflect the festival’s core ethos of dialogue rather than categorisation. Here, classical forms sit alongside experimental practices; myth converses with autobiography; pedagogy meets personal rupture.
Across the programme, the dancing body emerges as an archive, a question, and a site of transformation. These films do not merely document choreography—they think through movement. They ask what it means to inherit tradition in a fractured present, to re-read myth through contemporary bodies, to let space choreograph the dancer, and to allow dance to hold vulnerability, memory, and becoming.
Placed within BLR Hubba / Nartisu’s larger commitment to plurality, openness, and cross-form conversation, this programme invites audiences to experience dance on screen not as a genre, but as a living, porous practice—one that listens as much as it speaks.
Masoom Parmar
All ages
All ages
Masoom Parmar