Name: Re(play)
Start: 2026-05-02T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-05-02T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Shoonya Centre for Art and Somatic Practices

A simple scoreA vast spaceMany entanglementsWhere do we stand and how do we navigate?In the vast happening,finding a safe space to live and create.Re(play) is a completely improvised work inspired by the ‘happenings’ of the Judson Dance Theater from the 1960s. The performance aims to question how rituals and practices can allow for play and restoration. The work attempts to blur the line between audience and performer, cast and crew, technique and artistic expression.About the artists:Ainesh Madan (he/him) is a dance artist currently based in Bangalore, India. He is a co-founder of the 206 Dance Collective, an ATI-certified Alexander Technique teacher, and a Ceann-Iuil (Pathfinder) in the animist tradition of Sagh’ic-Tire Dhream. Ainesh attended Bard College (USA) on a full-tuition scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Economics.Ainesh has since choreographed numerous works, while also collaborating with, and/or performing for, various notable choreographers. His choreographic choices are informed by his daily attempts to enhance his capacities as a dancer; for him, choreography is a tool that highlights the potency of dance as a medium for honest, unfettered communication. Ainesh premiered his first evening-length solo, Phantasies, as part of the University Settlement Guest Artist Series programme in New York City, for which he received the Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He was one of the 2021 residents for Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan’s bangaloREsidency-Expanded at Weltkunstzimmer in Düsseldorf. Ainesh received the ThinkArts Grant to develop a new work for kids inspired by the character of Smeagol/Gollum from the Lord of the Rings saga in 2022. He was selected as a grantee for the March Dance grant by Basement21 to create "Betwixt & Between", a score-based work on the concept of liminal spaces. Ainesh was also selected as a Project Villa Swagatam Laureate for a residency at Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, France. He was part of a Bahurupi Art residency at Arthshila in Santiniketan in November - December 2025, where he presented a new work titled "Damh".Ainesh is also an experienced, multilingual dance teacher and a freelance content writer. His writing was published in Imagining – A Gibney Dance Journal in November 2021. Ainesh’s writing was selected to receive the second position in the prestigious Mouritz Award for writing on the Alexander Technique.Given the opportunity, Ainesh would willingly spend all his time sketching or reading a fantasy novel.Nitant Nair has been exploring movement and non movement for over 15 years, deeply engaged in observing its role in everyday life. His practice draws inspiration from nature and the inherent interconnectedness of all things from what we often consider manual tasks such as farming, working with animals, and domestic labor, to more expansive creative expressions like design, dance, and music.Through his work, he continually reflects on the forces that move us: what animates us, what brings us alive. He explores the quiet, persistent intelligence within us the same impulse that turns toward the sun and retreats into the shade.He is a Feldenkrais practitioner and has been performing for past 10 years with a Japanese experimental Physical Theatre Group in Japan and Korea.