ABSTRACT

‘This chapter takes the reader on a walk around Nrityagram, the dance village created by Protima Gauri in South India. The village was designed by architect Gerard Da Cunha, on Gauri’s instructions, and echoes some characteristics of dance movements. Odissi dance is itself a form that has been recreated with reference to carvings on temple walls. Thus the chapter demonstrates the exchanges between architecture and dance at Nrityagram – in particular, the inference of dance from stillness, and capture of movement in design.