The founder of Avantika Bahl Dance Company, she worked as an instructor and performer with The Danceworx, a Jazz company in New Delhi from 2004-2010. Avantika has worked independently as a performer and teacher in New Delhi from 2010-2011 and has studied at The London Contemporary Dance School from 2011-2012. Avantika also has a Diploma in Contemporary Dance from Kent University and MA in English literature from Mumbai University.
She helps run Dance Dialogues, an initiative that connects dance makers and dance lovers to provocative and diverse ideas, to individuals and to institutions. She has been teaching and creating work in Mumbai since 2012. Avantika is one of the 12 choreographers in India to participate in a collaboration programme with PARTS school from Belgium. She is currently learning Indian Sign Language and holds a yellow belt in Mixed Martial Arts. She is currently organizing StopLookGo, a series of improvised exchanges at busy traffic signals, where performers are invited to explore non-formal, public spaces as alternative performance venues, while mapping the city of Mumbai.
Some of her works include ‘{wonkot}’ in 2013, which premiered at NCPA Mumbai; ‘110048,M81’, a solo, as part of the Gati Residency 2014 which premiered in New Delhi at the Goethe Institute; ‘Maximum City’, 2014, a site specific piece that was commissioned for the Bandra Festival in Mumbai; ‘Here’, solo, as part of the Facets Residency 2015, premiered at the Attakalari Biennial in Bangalore; ‘Cheer System’, 2016, a site specific piece that was commissioned for the Litmus festival.
PECDA (2016) – Performance: ‘Say, what?’ – performed by Avantika Bahl & Vishal Sarvaiya.
PECDA (2014) – Performance: Home – performed by Avantika Bahl.
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