The Centre for Innovation in Performing Arts (CIPA) is a living vision, a space where tradition, contemporary practice, and technology stride to converge with depth and purpose.
Conceived by Attakkalari, India’s pioneering institution for contemporary movement arts, CIPA invites you to join in shaping a cultural landmark.
CIPA is envisioned as a space dedicated for performance, research, and interdisciplinary exchange, situated on 1.65 acres beside a quiet lake near Bangalore University. Entrusted to Attakkalari by the Bangalore Development Authority, this site holds the promise of becoming a ground fecund for artists, educators, and thinkers to create, collaborate, and imagine futures.
Here, the vocabularies of Indian somatic traditions are positioned in conversation with contemporary movement practices, digital media, and emerging technologies through residencies, workshops, labs, and modes of public engagement.
Founder and artistic director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Jayachandran Palazhy is an internationally sought after dancer, choreographer and pedagogue at the forefront of the contemporary movement arts scene in India.
Palazhy directs many of Attakkalari’s landmark initiatives such as the Attakkalari India Biennial, the Attakkalari Diploma in Movement Arts and Pedagogy, the internationally acclaimed Attakkalari Dance Company and the seminal NAGARIKA project, an interactive digital documentation series on Indian physical and performance traditions, unearthing the concepts of body and principles of movements embedded in them. Over the years Palazhy has helped to mould the careers of many contemporary dance artists in India and continue to guide budding artists through the Incubation Centre for the Arts and Media (ICAM) at Attakkalari. He has also been a consultant and mentor for artist residencies and festivals nationally and internationally. He is a visiting faculty in few universities and participates as a speaker in conferences and seminars world over.
We invite patrons, institutions, artists, and cultural partners to actively participate in the making of CIPA.
Your support can take many forms:
Across the country, artists are seeking spaces that are open-ended, collaborative, and grounded in both rigour and imagination – spaces that do not separate body from code, or heritage from innovation. Yet such spaces remain scarce.
CIPA responds to this critical need. It is not an institution of display, but a centre for process, research, and creation. Here is where we gather to move, to experiment, and most importantly, to listen.
