under body, below word – a space is a performance where dancers move through gesture, projection, and fragmented text to explore the shifting dynamic between body and language—where meaning remains open, unfinished, and constantly in motion. The projections carry words, sentences, and punctuation, offering prompts that the body interprets, resists, or reimagines.

Created by Gia Singh Arora and Somya Kautia 

Performers 

Komal Kankariya 

Tanvi Lehr Sonigra 

Tanuj Nair 

Vidur Sethi 

Akshita Dutt 

Visuals 

Saba Mundlay 

Sound 

Padmanabhan 

Light 

Sankalp Kapur

About the Grantee

Gia Singh Arora is a Bombay-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans filmmaking, performance art, somatic movement, and education. Her work embraces hybridity and centres the body as a site for artistic intuition and impulse. From Dekho Main Hoon, a documentary exploring somatic movement, to Andar Bahar, a 16mm experimental film on a drag artist, Gia’s work engages with embodied expression across forms.

Her films have been showcased at multiple film festivals. She approaches the body and performance as tools for self-reflection, integrating movement, classical dance, performance art, and theatre. Her interests lie in exploring new ways of experiencing the body, and she has recently led workshops such as Movement and Stillness and Understanding Sensations, including a three-part series with Goethe-Institut as part of their exhibit Critical Zones.

About the G5A Warehouse Performance Grant

The G5A Warehouse Performance Grant supports independent performance artists and practitioners in presenting their work. Reflecting a commitment to fostering creativity, resilience, and cultural vibrancy, the grant is rooted in the belief that non-mainstream artistic voices deserve platforms to thrive and be recognised with dignity.