Anoushka Kurien
Anoushka Kurien, lives and works in Chennai. Her choreographic practice looks at framing ideas and experiences of physicality that address areas of perception and the quality of attention and experience proposed by live performance and video. 'What Talk of Body', 'Workbook', 'To Be Danced', 'In Rooms' and 'Restricted View' are some of the works she has made since 2011. She writes to document and to work through her practice of dance. She also enjoys being a part of the creative processes of other choreographers and her teaching practice with children has been a support creatively and economically. She sometimes works with an artists' collective, performing and finding ways to engage as a contemporary art community in Chennai, India.
Choreography & Video Installation
Mangrove Associates (2022-ongoing)
March Dance Festival, Peer-Platform, Chennai
What Talk of Body (2020-22)
PECDA Showcase 2024, Bangalore
Pickle Factory Festival, Kolkata
Koothu-P-Pattarai, Chennai
Basement21@Goethe-Institut, Chennai
Manal Magudi Theatre, Kovilpatti
Spaces, Chennai
Workbook (2021)
Circuit #2 Online Exhibition, Dance Nucleus, Singapore
In Rooms (2018)
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
March Dance peer platform, Chennai
To Be Danced (2017 - 2018)
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
Goethe-Institut, Chennai
Restricted View (Trio & Solo)
(2010 - 2013)
Alliance Française, Chennai
Attakkalari Facets Residency, Bangalore
Student Showcase, Laban Theatre, London
All This For Nothing Except For Dance (2011)
IBSA Collaboration, ArtsAlive Festival, Johannesburg
Independent Dancer
Pause / Play (2019)
by Basement 21
Five Million Incidents, Kolkata
The Lost Wax Project (2019)
by Preethi Athreya
Chennai, Patna, Singapore
Score Painting (2019)
by Basement 21
InKo Centre, Chennai
Seven to the Seventh (2019)
by Ana Sanchez-Colberg / Preethi Athreya
Chennai
Thadaka (2017)
by Madhushree Basu
Gender-Bender Festival, Bangalore
Stranger in Indian Paradise (2014, 2016)
by David Rolland, Padmini Chettur, Preethi Athreya
Delhi, Chennai & Nantes
Pause/Play - Interruption (2014)
by Basement21
Chennai
A Piece for You, Chennai (2013)
by Thomas Lehman
Chennai
Performer with Padmini Chettur Dance Company, Chennai
Paper Doll (2005 – 2008)
Pushed (2006 - 2009)
Beautiful Thing 1 (2008 - 2011)
Kolam (2014)
Wall Dancing (2015)
Stilling (2024)
Commissions, Grants & Scholarships
Gender Bender Festival Grant (2020)
Bangalore
Serendipity Arts Foundation Dance Commission (2018)
Goa
Inlaks Grant - Attakkalari Residency (2012)
Bangalore
J.N. Tata Endowment & Scholarship (2010)
Trinity-Laban, London
danceWEB Scholarship (2009)
ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Vienna
Teaching Practice
Dance Technique Module at the M.A. Performance Practice programme (2019)
Ambedkar University, Delhi
Movement Classes for Pre-Prep (2015 - Present)
Kids Central School, Chennai
Movement & Performance Training (2016 - 2018 - 2022)
Koothu-p-Pattarai Theatre Company, Chennai
Yoga (2014 - 2017)
Rutland Gate Studio, Chennai
Movement Training (2008 - 2015)
Padmini Chettur Dance Company, Chennai
Organisational Projects
March Dance Festival, Co-Curation, Chennai, (2018 - 2023)
Encounter Series by Basement 21, Co-ordination, Chennai (2022 - 2023)
Education & Training
Diploma Dance Studies (2010 - 2011)
Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London
Training & Performance - Contemporary Dance (2003 - 2015)
Padmini Chettur Dance Company, Chennai
Bachelor of Commerce (2000 - 2003)
Stella Maris College, Chennai
Ballet-based Movement Classes (1994 - 2001)
Russian Cultural Centre, Chennai
Residencies & Workshops
CP3 Online Programme, Dance Nucleus
Singapore
Anna Huber workshop (2019)
Chennai
Artist Platform ICF (2018)
Berlin
Reconstruction Project - ‘Sri’ by Chandralekha (2016)
Spaces, Chennai
Theatre du Soleil - Ecole Nomade (2015)
Pondicherry
Light Design - Jonathan O’Hear (2014)
Pondicherry
Attakkalari Residency (2012)
Bangalore
IBSA Residency (2011)
Johannesburg
danceWEB (2009)
Vienna
Guest in Residence, Festival ‘Sommerszene’ (2007)
Salzburg