Embodying Critical Situation

Embodying Critical Situation was a 5-day intensive workshop focused on improvisation while working on fundamentals like breath, speed and energy—involving the core structure of the body influenced by different methods of dance and martial arts combined, exploring dancers’ relationship with the space and the people around. During this process the participants were expected to react to various tasks and scores, to disengage mind from body and observe the reaction of body, recollect or replay a given incident and to identify it from a new perspective, while coming to the understanding that the ‘new’ is nothing but a combination of various memories played in different time and space which is changing and passing every moment.

Name of the Artists - Abhilash Ningappa

Abhilash Ningappa is the founder and the artistic director of Play Practice Artists’ Residency in Bangalore, India. A post graduate from SEAD (Salzburg) and a post masters studies fellow of APASS (Belgium), Abhilash is acknowledged internationally for his pedagogic work in embodying critical situation. His residency in Bangalore has been working in research development and training in the field of contemporary dance and movement since its inception.