Artistic collaborations

Besides creating dance works, Nayana finds interdisciplinary artistic works very exciting and enriching. She engages in projects across artistic genres, and thoroughly enjoys the process of this diversity create its own alchemy in her performances. Her collaborations have ranged across dance and theatre, film, text and fine art genres.

A dance-painting collaboration with Dutch painters in Amsterdam, 2010, where Nayana performed Kathak and the painters painted the performance. This painting by painter Edgar Jansen.

H2Zero was a Movement Installation project devised by dance artistes Veena Basavarajaiah and Deepak Shivaswamy, in collaboration with dancers and theatre artistes. Presented at National Gallery of Modern Art and UBcity mall, Bangalore, India in 2011. The project was a socio-political commentary on the controversial subject of water resources in urban and rural India.

"Reaching Beyond" was an extract from an earlier collaborative project between French choreographer Michel Casanovas, 4 Indian dancers and a theatre artiste. The original project, titled "Beyond the mirror" premiered at La Centre de Musica Popular Festival, in France in 2011. The extract, "Reaching Beyond" was presented by Sapphire Dance Creations in a duet format in Kolkata, India in 2012.

"Spot on me" was a collaborative movement installation project with the Vienna-based Japanese choreographer, Michikazu Matsune and 5 dancers. The project was presented at and hosted by Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna in 2015.

"Timecode 9733" is a dance-film installation project curated and devised by choreographer Andrea K Schlehwein. Nayana collaborated as a journalist, documenting and writing about the creation process and the performance. The project was presented in Kunstift Millstatt, Austria in 2015.

Clownfabrik is a clown-theatre group in Salzburg, founded by Peter Kaubisch. As a part of this group, Nayana performed with 5 other clowns at the Kunstschleuder Festival in Salzburg, 2015

"Spaces between" was a workshop/performance project led by the French/British dancer, choreographer Lucy May Constantini and 5 Indian dancers. The project was supported and presented at Bon Jour India Festival, in Bangalore, India in 2010.

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