Founder and Director / Artistic Director / various • Pickle Factory Dance Foundation / Ranan / freelance • male

Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015. “I believe that the arts are an inherent part of any society. They exist to open up imaginations about possible ways of being, living and seeing, and for creating a more empathetic, human, connected world. This is at the root of any work I undertake personally or with artists and arts organisations in India and abroad. Alongside, I also consistently reinvent my own relationship to the Indian classical form I have trained in – kathak. Experiences with artists from the contemporary dance and performance worlds in India and Europe have fundamentally changed me as an artist and sharpened a socio-political awareness, again asking me to connect my world with the world at large.”

Kolkata India

Dance, Theatre

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Vikram Iyengar on the Web

https://vikramiyengar.in

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