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Ainesh Madan (he/him) is a dance artist currently based in Bangalore, India. He is a co-founder of the 206 Dance Collective. Ainesh attended Bard College (USA) on a full-tuition scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Economics. He has since choreographed numerous works, while also collaborating with, and/or performing for, various notable choreographers. Experimentation is foundational to Ainesh’s work. All his choreographic endeavours are distinct in form and content, and serve as reflections of his learnings at the time they were each created. Ainesh’s choreographic choices are informed by his daily attempts to enhance his capacities as a dancer; for him, choreography is a tool that highlights the potency of dance as a medium for honest, unfettered communication.  He premiered his first evening-length solo, Phantasies, as part of the University Settlement Guest Artist Series programme in New York City, for which he received the Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Ainesh was one of the 2021 residents for Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan’s bangaloREsidency-Expanded at Weltkunstzimmer in Düsseldorf. He received the ThinkArts Grant to develop a new work for kids inspired by the character of Smeagol/ Gollum from the Lord of the Rings saga in 2022. Ainesh was recently selected as a grantee for the March Dance grant by Basement21 to create a score based work on the concept of liminal spaces.  

 

Ainesh is currently in the fourth year of a Continuous Learning Program in the Alexander Technique. He is also training to become a Ceann-Iuil (Pathfinder) in the animist tradition of Sagh’ic-Tire Dhream. Ainesh is also an experienced, multilingual dance teacher, and a freelance content writer. His writing was published in Imagining – A Gibney Dance Journal in November 2021. Ainesh’s writing was selected to receive the second position in the prestigious Mouritz Award for writing on the Alexander Technique.

 

Given the opportunity, Ainesh would willingly spend all his time reading a fantasy novel, especially if it is part of the Lord of the Rings saga.