Thank You for Your Visit by Damini Gairola and Maitreyee Joshi | G5A Warehouse Performance Grant

A powerful exploration of grief, memory, and human connection, Thank You for Your Visit is a contemporary dance performance that invites audiences to reflect on shared emotions and experiences. Through movement, sound, and tactile interactions, the performance blurs the boundaries between personal sorrow and communal expression.

Schedule
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18:00 | Touch Tour (exclusively for blind and visually impaired audience only)
The performance is preceded by a touch tour that begins at 18:00 for blind and visually impaired audience only. This touch tour requires a pre-registration (more details below). The tour lasts about 30 minutes. It is a pre-introduction and orientation to the performance area, performers, costumes, props used, seating and entry and exits of the venue.
This touch tour has no additional fee and you can find the pass for the same.
If you have any issues in registering or are an indivual with limited means, please call on :
+91 90759 29809

Please Note: The passes for touch tour are separate from the performance passes. Both passes can be availed via the same booking link.

18:40 | Performance Begins
The performance opens for all general audiences at 18:40.
The approximate duration of the piece is about 1 hour 10 minutes long. Strictly no entry after the third bell.

Experience the Performance

🔹 Inclusive & Immersive: Featuring integrated, poetic audio description, this performance is designed for both sighted and non-sighted audiences, creating a deeply shared experience.

🔹 Tactile Participation: Audiences, seated in a circle, engage in small sensory tasks, making them an active part of the performance.

🔹 Minimalist Sets & Ambient Soundscapes: A delicate interplay of sound, movement, and space that evokes loss, resilience, and hope.

🔹 A Thought-Provoking Journey: How do we exist together in a world shaped by wars, pandemics, and crises? This performance invites you to reflect, connect, and engage.

About the Artists

🩰 Damini Gairola & Maitreyee Joshi: Dancers, storytellers, and accessibility advocates who blend movement and emotion to challenge norms and spark dialogue.

🎶 Aabha Soumitra: A composer, vocalist, and choir conductor weaving folk, cinematic, and world music influences into evocative soundscapes.

Team:

Concept, Choreography and Performance : Damini Gairola & Maitreyee Joshi

Advice and Consultancy on Accessibility : Dominic MJ
Audio Description (India) : Aabha Soumitra
Light Design : Sanket Parkhe

Audio Description and Mentoring (Germany): Ursina Tossi 

Costume and Stage: Ilona Klein 

Music: Anne Leira van poppel y lubeigt
Manager : Himanshu Borkar

Supported by – Goethe Institut Pune and Peace Projects