| Vikram Iyengar Bio |
 Vikram IyengarFounder-director Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India, and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer-director, curator-presenter, and arts researcher-writer, his work spans practice, discourse, critique, ideation, consultancy and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. Vikram’s performance practice spans choreography for stage and film, dance and theatre explorations, and collaborations in India and abroad. He has curated for festivals in Scotland, South Africa and elsewhere in India. Guest faculty at various universities, he has collaborated as ideator and/or discussant in several international projects at the intersection of arts, academia, and socio-cultural studies. His articles regularly feature in academic and arts publications. Founder-director of the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation, Vikram is an ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, a Global Fellow Grad of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), and alumnus of Creative Australia's International Arts Leaders Programme. In December 2015, he was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for contemporary dance by the national Sangeet Natak Akademi. Currently, he is one of 10 worldwide Global Connectors for IETM – an international network for contemporary performing arts. |
