The RE:Moving Project

A contemplative performance inquiry by dancer and designer Miti Desai, marking a return to movement after a pause. Rooted in the classical language of Mohiniattam (a dance form from Kerala), the work does not seek continuity but re-entry, approaching the form as unfamiliar terrain. It engages with memory, resistance, vulnerability, and restraint, situating dance within the often-unseen spaces of stillness and recalibration. Here, pause is Generative Inactivity: a state of attentive listening where stillness and action continually nourish one another. Movement unfolds in dialogue with spatial awareness, where the design lens becomes an active presence.

Emerging from this threshold, the project questions inherited notions of virtuosity and outward spectacle, instead turning toward process, presence, and distilled intention. Drawing from the artist’s practices in both dance and design, the choreography pares classical vocabulary to its essence, reassessing form, function, and meaning. At its core, The RE:Moving Project treats the contested idea…