Indent: The Body and the Performative serves as a repository for a body of writing that stems (and then takes off) from the Gati Dance Forum’s engagement with teaching methodologies, research and performance-making, with the intention of adding to the critical discourse around performance practices in South Asia.
Is it time to disrupt our notion of the ‘body’, and ask of ourselves, echoing the words of the choreographer Chandralekha – where does the body begin and end, after all? What is the dancing body inspired by? How is it indented by crumbling democracies, wars, genocides, miracle vaccines, sculptures with fig leaves, sculptures missing body parts, cloned sheep and empathetic robots?