Meghna
Bhardwaj

Image Credit: De&Da Productions

This is a work-in-progress that explores the physical forces embedded in the state of birthing. Imagining the oral\fluid-based relationship between a fetus and the pregnant mother, the two performers dance the in-between spaces of compassion, sickness, nourishment, resistance, play, and ecstasy that characterise the world of the natal. Inspired by the feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero’s essay ‘The Great Mother’, the work uses yarn and the act of knitting as metaphors for the umbilical root, while pointing at the disruptive potential of the vaginal rupture from which a new being in the world is born.

Choreographer: Meghna Bhardwaj | Performance: Denis Barwa, Meghna Bhardwaj | Sound: Marcel Zaes | Sound inputs: Anirban | Ghosh aka. Baan G. | Costumes: Kiran Sharma | Dramaturgical inputs: Mandeep Raikhy, Wen Hui, Jasmine Yadav | Space: KK Studio New Delhi, Frankfurt Lab.

Supported by Frankfurt Moves! 2025 at Frankfurt Lab, KfW Stiftung.

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