Meghna
Bhardwaj
August 19 - September 8, 2024
Residency at Kunsthaus Helleweg, NRW Germany
March 20- 24, 2024
Tanzhochdrei Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg.
https://perfmts.net/announcements/tanzhochdrei-festival-20-24-march
January 28- 29, 2024
Yarning workshops at Contemporary Asian Performance Studies, Schule fur Schauspiel, Hamburg
December 2023
Teaching at the VHS Course, K3 Tanzplan Kampnagel, Hamburg
November 22, 2023
‘Through the lens of Yarning’ at India Week, Hamburg
https://k3-hamburg.de/programm/vorstellungen/kalender/veranstaltung/54426
July, 2023
Performed 'Hallucinations of an Artifact' by Mandeep Raikhy, Black Box Okhla New Delhi, July 2023.
March 2023
Presentation, titled Stage versus In Situ by Laure Ottmann and Eve Constantin, on Yarning works by Bhardwaj, under the guidance of Dr. Guy Cools. at Dance Department,University of Quebec in Montreal.
February 2023
Site-specific performance, The Secular Project by Mandeep Raikhy, at MOSAIC by JNUTA at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
January 2023
Video installation, bearing witness to the knotting skies by Bhardwaj, at B.base- a body based space:- day expo, performances, conversations, curated by Irina Baldini at 4bid gallery, Amsterdam.
July 2022
Guest lecture, Defining the Contemporary: Discussing Now and Elsewhere by Raqs
Media Collective, on invitation by Prof. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
September 2022
Panellist at What Future Hides? New Ways of Writing Critically in Literature, Cinema, Theatre, and Dance, Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Take On Art
Magazine, September 2022.
August 2022
Yarning (Brubeck Quartet), by Bhardwaj, screened as part of IN/MOTION Chicago Dance Film Festival (online) curated by Arshiya Sethi.
June 2022
Yarning, exhibition comprising video installations: Dis/ En-tangling Concrete and People/Fields: Interweavings, and a live dance installation titled Body without location:4 dances, by Bhardwaj in collaboration with Alecia Neo and Marcel Zaes, premiered at The Esplanade: Theatres on Bay, supported by Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency, National Arts Council, Singapore.
April 2022
Performance, Rewiring the Tribhanga, choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, at
PECDA (Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards), Prakriti Foundation, at Alliance Francaise, Bangalore.
April-June 2022
Artist-in-residence at Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency,
The Esplanade-Theatres on Bay, Singapore.
March-April 2022
Yarning, exhibition comprising video installations bearing witness to the
knotting skies, and Do you remember the touch of a stitch? By Bhardwaj, at Our
Contemporaries: Embodied Practices in Current Times, curated by Dr. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
March 2022
Video Installation, bearing witness to the knotting skies by Bhardwaj, at March Dance,
Basement 21 & Goethe Institut, Chennai.
February 2022
Performance, Rewiring the Tribhanga, choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, at Natya Gati Utsav, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
January 2022
Yarning exhibition (virtual) by Bhardwaj, at Attakkalari India Biennal 2022 by Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore.
January- March 2022
Editor/Facilitator at Writing Lab, Attakalari India Biennial 2022, in
collaboration with Melanie Suchy, supported by Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, funded by Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, Bangalore, India.
October 2021
Paper presentation, Body / = Space: Discussing the question ‘where is the
dancing body?’ and its significance to Dance Pedagogy. WDAAP-KSD International Dance Conference, 5G Webinar, Korea.
September 2021
Moderator at Performance as Research: Writing Dance- Dancing Research,
PaR and dance research, Annual Conference titled Performing Performance, Kolkata Centre For Creativity (KCC).
July-September 2021
Artist-in-residence (virtual)at Artefact#2 Creative Residency, Dance Nucleus, Singapore.
September 2021
Paper presentation, Generating blank spaces: Reflections on history,
practice, and community of dance in the post-pandemic India. Busan Dance Festival (virtual),
Korea.
June 2021
Pre-recorded video lecture, Generating blank spaces: Reflections on history,
practice, and community of dance in the post-pandemic India. For +AND (Asian Network of Dance, Australia), and Dance Nucleus, Singapore.
June-July 2021
Collaboration (virtual) with Singapore based visual and community artist
Alecia Neo, on her Care Index Project.
January 2021
Video contribution, titled Veins by Bhardwaj, towards Singaporean artist Care
Index Project.
September 2020
Moderator at two-day conference Women in Performance (virtual) organised by Kolkata Centre For Creativity (KCC), Kolkata.
October- November 2020
Co-directed student collaborations (virtual) at Shiv Nadar University, India, and Williams College, USA, with Dr. Shanti Pillai, Prof. Amy Holzapfel, and Dr. Marcel Zaes
June 2020
Virtual workshop, Introduction to Contemporary Dance, organised by Kolkata
Centre For Creativity (KCC), Kolkata.
June 2020
Participated in da:ns lab 2020- Co-immunity: How to dance when we are ill?, on invitation by Ranjana Dave, organised by Dance Nucleus, Singapore.
July 2020
Panellist at Talking Experiences: What is Somatics? (webinar), Studio Abhyas, New Delhi.
November 2019
Performance, Anatomy of Belief, choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, premiered at Odd Bird Theatre, Delhi.
November 2019
Paper presentation, Mediating ‘aspiration’ and conditions of marginal existence in the 21st century: The growing ‘hip-hop’ scene among the youth of Indian slums.
Ocean Dance Festival, World Dance Alliance, Bangladesh.
November 2019
Curated student exhibition, The Dancer’s Body, a combination of live performance, films, and textual installation, in collaboration with Dr. Marcel Zaes,
undergraduate students of the dance elective offered at The Department of Art, Media, and Performance, Shiv Nadar University.
July 2019
Summer School: Global Humanities Institute (GHI)- Mellon, Crisis of Democracy Through the Prism of Cultural Trauma. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
July 2019
Paper presentation, Mediating ‘aspiration’ and conditions of marginal existence in the 21st century: The growing ‘hip-hop’ scene among the youth of Indian slums. International Council for Traditional Music World Conference (ICTM), Bangkok.
May 2019
Performance, Here There, Choreographed by Ahn-Ae-Soon, Ex-director of Korean
National Contemporary Dance Company. At MODAFE, Seoul, Korea.
December 2018
Performance, the extremities of a surface are lines, choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, commissioned by Goethe Institut- Max Mueller Bhavan, premiered in Delhi.
September 2018
September 2018: Guest workshop, Warm up and other contemporary dance techniques, at Performing Arts Department, Presidency University, Calcutta.
November 2018
Performance, Here There by Ahn-Ae-Soon, commissioned by and presented at Asia Culture Centre, Korea.
August 2018
Edges (Beams) by Bhardwaj, in collaboration with Marcel Zaes, alongside Setting by Marcel Zaes, supported by Prohelvetia-Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi, premiered at Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi.
August 2018
Co-mentor at The Found Stage: Sound and Site, on the direction of Marcel Zaes and Laura Gati, supported by Prohelvetia-Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi, and, Nachom Arts Foundation, Manipur.
August 2018
Performance, Pray, choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, commissioned by and
presented at Goethe-Institut- Max Mueller Bhawan, Delhi.
April 2018
Performance, Savdhaan!, Choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, presented at the Regimes of Truth Exhibition (Gujral Foundation and Gati Dance Forum), curated by Shaunak Mahbubani, New Delhi.
April 2018
Guest workshop, Writing as Movement-making. At Young India Fellowship,
Ashoka University, Sonipat.
August 2018
Installation piece, Setting#11 by Marcel Zaes, supported by Prohelvetia-Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi; premiered at Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi.
March 2018
Edges Trilogy: a combination of live performance, films, and textual installation by Bhardwaj, curated by Padmini Chettur, March Dance, Chennai.
February 2018
Guest lecture, On Gender in Performance: Reviewing Paris is Burning. At Performing Arts Department, Ashoka University, Sonipat.
January 2018
Performance, Edges (beginnings) byBhardwaj at Dance Round Table (DRT 2018), National Theatre, Taipei.
January 2018
Dance and Movement workshop. Dance Round Table, Taipei.
July 2017
Guest lecture, Discussing Choreographies of Gender by Susan Foster. At School of
Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
July 2017
Durational performance, Long Nights of Resistance, Choreographed by Mandeep
Raikhy, as part of Notinmyname protests, Gati Dance Forum, Delhi.
April 2017
Co-curated Abhyas Somatics Lab with Navtej Singh Johar. Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.
January 2017
Edges (beginnings) by Bhardwaj, premiered at FACETS residency, Attakkalari, Bangalore.
October 2016
Paper presentation, Politics as Aesthetics: Analysing ‘performatives’ in the context of JNU protest. IGNITE, Gati Dance Forum, New Delhi.
June 2016
Paper presentation, Debating the ‘Modern’ in the Indian context: Reflecting on
Dance History and Changing Aesthetics of Dance in India. Choreography and Corporeality Working Group. IFTR, Stockholm.
April 2016
Edges (solo) by Bhardwaj, at INSIDE OUTSIDE, Natya Ballet Centre, New Delhi.
September 2016
Edges (duet), by Bhardwaj in collaboration with Sanchita Sharma, created over Artist-in-Residence (2016), Gati Dance Forum, Delhi; Premiered at/ nominated for PECDA 2016 (Prakriti Excellence Awards for Contemporary Dance), and performed at
Kalakshetra, Chennai.
October, 2015
Paper presentation, Configuring the ‘Contemporary’: Choreographic Processes of Navtej Johar, Padmini Chettur, and Jayachandran Palazhy. Asia-Pacific Dance Bridge symposium, World Dance Alliance, Singapore.
October 2015
Choreolab Residency, at Lasalle College of the Arts, World Dance Alliance,
Singapore.
August 2015
Edges (solo) by Bhardwaj, Dance Bridges Festival, Kolkata
June-August 2015
Gati Summer Dance Residency, 2015, New Delhi.
April 2015
Excuse me sir! By Bhardwaj, danced by Bhardwaj and Prachi Sharma, at 6Cube,
Gati Dance Forum, New Delhi.
December 2014
Ghetto by Bhardwaj, danced by Bhardwaj, Heemanshu Sharma, Sonu Sharma, and Sanchita Sharma, at Quarterfest by Santosh Nair, India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi.
November 2014
Performance, Equals to ‘=’, by Bhardwaj and Sanchita Sharma, at This Art Thing, curated by Nikita Maheshwari, Gurgaon, New Delhi.
August 2014
Dancer-in-residence at American Dance Festival (ADF) by World Dance
Alliance, Asia Pacific, Henan, China.
August 2014
Ghetto by Bhardwaj, premiered at American Dance Festival (ADF) by World
Dance Alliance, Asia Pacific, Henan, China.
October 2014
Performance, Equals to ‘=’, by Bhardwaj and Sanchita Sharma, at 6Cube, Gati
Dance Forum, New Delhi.
January- June 2014
Dancer at Dance Journey Program, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Israel.
August 2013
Womb by Bhardwaj, premiered at Delhi Contemporary Arts Week, Friends of Art, New Delhi.
August 2013
Performance, Forever Maybe by Ragini Bhajanka, premiered at Delhi Contemporary Arts Week, Friends of Art, New Delhi.
January 2013
Choreographed a site-specific performance, for HOMELANDS curated by
Latika Gupta, at British Council, in collaboration with Ragini Bhajanka, directed by Shohini Dutta and Yuko Harada, The Danceworx, New Delhi.
October- December 2013
Dancer-in-residence, at Marameo open studio, Berlin, on invitation by Marion Buchhmann.
December 2021
Yarning exhibition comprising video works- bearing witness to the knotting skies and Do you remember the touch of a stitch?, by Bhardwaj, Root Intelligence (video work) by Alecia Neo, Hushweave (sound installation) by Zeekos Perakos, premiered at SCOPE 2021, Dance Nucleus, Singapore.
August, 2015
Dance and Movement workshop. Dance Bridges Festival, Kolkata.
June-August 2015
Artist-in-residence at Gati Summer Dance Residency, Gati Dance Forum; premiered Edges (solo) at Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi.
August 2011
Dancer-in-residence at Taipedia Dance Festival, World Dance Alliance, Taipei.