Responding to Navjot Altaf’s Waste Archives as Landscape that is currently underway at the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) Gallery, two performance practices will unfold as meditations on how bodies absorb, resist and reflect shifting environments.

For choreographer and dancer Sanjukta Wagh, Body Excavations resists conventional narrative altogether. “It’s actually not a play,” she says. “It is three excerpts from my early works which use the body as a primary mode of narrative.” Drawing from earlier pieces, including The Rage and Beyond: and Iravati’s Gandhari and Putana and I, the work assembles fragments rather than a linear storyline, allowing meaning to surface through movement and sensation.