Attakkalari celebrates 25 transformative years of creation, connection and innovation with the 2025–26 Attakkalari India Biennial materialising as a luminous journey of reconnection. This special silver-jubilee edition dares to dream boldly in a tumultuous moment in human history, foregrounding somatic practices that restore presence and rescue the body from the fragmentation, alienation and isolation that echo through contemporary life. Thus, this 12th edition of the Attakkalari India Biennial is an invitation to feel, to reflect and to reawaken the body’s deepest wisdom.
This Biennial turns its gaze toward the intricacies of human relationships and the subtle conversations between our bodies and the spaces we move through. Architecture, cities, landscapes, each becomes a living archive of events and memories, shaping our collective conscience as they imprint themselves on us. The performances that this biennial curates are from across the world and trace the paths of bodies travelling through cities, countries and continents, offering evocative testimonies of the crystalised moments where place and person become inseparable. These artistic explorations reveal exquisite insights into the scale, density and rhythm that define dance, embodiment and existence itself.
The festival arrives in full bloom with the 2023 Olivier Award-winning performance Enowate by a celebrated British star performer and choreographer Dickson Mbi; Swiss choreographer Nicole Morel’s evocative BRICKS; German choreographer Sara Angius’s compelling LONO – The Woman Who Had Two Navels; the Italian company EgriBianco Danza’s stirring Leonardo Da Vinci; South Korean choreographer Jeong Cheol-in’s riveting works Flight and Your Symptoms; Australian choreographer Raghav Handa’s Superhero; and an intimate Indo-Italian–Japanese interactive multimedia installation, Razai, powered by localized AI. The festival also presents fresh voices of emerging choreographers created as part of Folios of Time. Adding to this vibrant constellation is Attakkalari’s own new site-specific creation, Geometry of Becoming, crafted especially to honour the silver jubilee.
The Attakkalari India Biennial 2025–26 invites you to witness dance as a map of memory, a pulse of possibility and a celebration of the endless ways we inhabit and transform the world.
