Khuli Khirkee 2022: Krishnakshi Goswami

A photograph from the first sharing with Khuli Khirkee members

Krishnakshi Goswami is a dance practitioner and researcher from Guwahati, Assam. She has a Master’s degree in Performance Studies, from Ambedkar University Delhi. Her practice approaches dance/dance research through a historical and socio-cultural lens.

Currently, her project for the INLAKS Khuli Khirkee opportunity 2022 focuses on the histories and socio-cultural context of three different dance practices - Bharatnatyam, Chhau, and Kalaripayattu, as well as movement practices that she has trained in the contemporary dance spaces/studios of metropolitan cities like Delhi and Bangalore. The project also delves into her personal relationship with her practice, as a dancer from northeast India who has been introduced to traditional Indian dance forms which are historically embedded in communities and passed down orally over generations.

Her work challenges the meanings of the terms contemporary and dance, as well as frames of perceiving dance merely as a movement-based art form. Instead, she proposes seeing dance through an interdisciplinary approach that lies at the intersection of identity, history, and politics.

The performance is choreographed as a live narration and movement-based dialogue to encourage a conversation with the audience. 

A collection of responses from the audience

Bodyspaces, a conceptual photography series by movement artist Surendra Tekale.

Cover Image: Bodyspaces, a conceptual photography series by movement artist Surendra Tekale.