C.Tactile redefines connection and challenges perceptions of embodiment, offering a visceral journey into the intricate choreography of touch. At its heart lies a set of urgent questions: What does it mean to embody a female identity in a world shaped by the male gaze? How is touch used to establish socio-political hierarchies? How does the body itself carry and perform these assertions?

Through these questions, the work explores the politics and poetics of touch – personal, cultural, and collective. The dancers use their bodies as living canvases of resistance, vulnerability, and resilience, embracing the contradictions of touch as both experience and intervention.

By opening up conversations around consent, the gendered performative body, and touch as a political tool, C.Tactile becomes more than a performance. It is an intimate yet urgent encounter—one that lingers beyond the stage, sparking dialogue and reflection in those who witness it.

Duration: 40 Mins

Language: English

Concept and Choreography: Shruti Maria Datar 

Movement Collaborator: Melitta Dsouza

Performed by: Shruti and Melitta

Original music score: Adriel George 

Light Design: Sanket Parkhe

Produced by: The Movement Arts Co