Choreography for Stage
As a creator and choreographer, Prashant's work moves across shifting forms of storytelling, often blending experimentation, poetry, ambiguity, and humour. His performances are intimate and immersive, emerging from lived experience and shaped by a dialogue between structure and spontaneity. Often collaborating with artists from diverse disciplines, he approaches creation as a shared playground for exchange and expanded vision. His work has been presented at festivals in India, Hong Kong, the UK, and South Africa.
Weight of Time
Weight of Time" invites you to question the traditional idea of art having a purpose. Instead, it encourages you to be present and enjoy the performance for the sake of the experience. This dance piece offers a space for relaxation and immersion in the art, composition, and shared emotions. It explores moments of boredom, silence, pleasure, solitude, anxiety, and vulnerability, illustrating how time transforms in the face of life's routine.
DURATION: 55 minutes OR 3 hours (180 minutes)
Choreographed, Designed & Performed by
Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy & Prashant More
3 AM
‘3 AM’ unravels the fragile world of an insomniac personality, a body that has surrendered to exhaustion, yet a mind that refuses to rest. Lying in bed with closed eyes, the mind has boarded multiple flights, floating in space like a cloud that has forgotten its way home. Thoughts, ideas, and anxieties run in relentless loops, leaping between past and future, entangled in voices that refuse to quiet down. Desperate for sleep, the person tries every suggestion from friends and family, but each attempt fails. As the night deepens, exhaustion blurs the boundaries of reality. The clock on the wall has long faded, time has lost its meaning, and the mind drifts into a space where dreams and wakefulness intertwine. Through movement, ‘3 AM’ paints a portrait of this sleepless struggle state, both real and surreal, where the body is still, but the mind never stops moving. Credits: Performance title: 3 AM Choreography and Performance: Prashant More Music: Nikhil Nagaraj Dramaturg: Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy
Third is Fluidity
Spaces, Human, Conflicts
(Work-in progress)
Choreographed by Prashant More
Creative Collaboration: Adrianna Michalska and Purnendra Meshram
Performers: Adrianna Michalska Prashant More Purnendra Meshram
Another Day
# Secret diary “It was raining heavily, we were sitting inside and gazing at stars. It was my first kiss but now it seems silly. I was brushing past the pages of my secret diary but my space was invaded. You know the other night, I was just thinking about our days that we spent together, lived. I felt something very deep inside, but don’t know how our fight started. I saw you look at me but your hands had left mine, we hugged, we fought, we pulled each other closer and pushed away our lives”
Choreography: Prashant More
Performers: Ronita Mookerji & Prashant More
Collaborations & Site-Specific
Fools & Labour
Fools and Labour (17 April – 1 May 2025) Performance Project / Ongoing Research / Collective Creation Fools and Labour is a collaborative performance project by Prashant More, Deepak Kurki Swamy, and Avnish Pandey, exploring the paradoxical position of the artist in society, as both a fool and a labourer. The project reflects on the many visible and invisible labours that sustain artistic practice today: creating, producing, organizing, documenting, and promoting one’s own work. This tension between creation and labour became the central metaphor guiding the process. Over the two-week period, the project unfolded through daily evening performances, workshops, and a series of dance film screenings, creating an open platform for artists and audiences to gather, share, and engage with different forms of artistic practice. The project culminated in a four-hour durational performance on International Workers' Day at Conflictorium Raipur, where the museum was transformed into a shared workplace. Artists occupied different rooms, each engaged in an ongoing action—from cycling and physical installations to participatory games, live sound composition, and sculptural performance. Every hour a bell signalled a brief collective pause, while tea was continuously prepared and shared with both artists and audience, creating moments of rest within the ongoing labour of creation. Credits : Concept & Curation: Prashant More, Deepak Kurki Swamy, Avnish Pandey Location: Conflictorium Museum, Raipur, India
Detritus
Detritus is a multiform contemporary performance that proposes a lightness of being and living in a world that is overburdened by what we consume and discard.
Concept by Paramita Shah. Artsforward India
Choreographed by Surjit Nongmeikapam and Prashant More
Music: Karshni Nair
Dancers/performers: Ujjayee Banerjee, Madhyama Halder, Srestha Das Choudhury, Amitabh Srivastava, Pintu Das and Sangram Mukhopadhyay
Dramaturgy Diya Naidu
Field, Water, Earth
The bodies explored the vast barren land bringing in themes of play and their relationship with the earth, space and other bodies around them. The exploration drew focus to the complexities of the land of Goa, specifically Arambol- a melting pot of cultures, individual and collective stories, marked by the continuous shifts in the interactions between the passing and settled crowds and shadowed by the current concern of scarcity of water. Performers * Adrianna Michalska * Anjali Nair * Avanish Pandey * Carolina Tapoc * Melissa Eveleigh * Prashant More * Sarah Elsworth * Siddhartha James * Tove *Camera team * * Katia Dankova * Shahid * Wandell * Yuliana •Trailer Edit - Katia Dankova • Music Title- I love the way you're talking to me Artist- Soft and Furious
Chuzhi
(a site-specific Dis-PLAY)
In a world of connections and discoveries, we explore spaces and languages anew. Our bodies converse not to impress, but to engage in meaningful conversation and understanding. Through these interactions, we become creators, crafting something profound together.
- with Prashant More, Deepak Kurki, Abhi VS, Laxmi Paris, Greeshma Narendran
Camera: Arvind Madhu & Arjun Shaji
Venue support LOOP Skatepark In Collaboration with BOHO
Who?
“The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion. Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within us as we play it, like an
actor who sees through a mask and can only see in this way “ - James Hillman.
Choreographer: Ronita Mookerji
Dancers: Ronita Mookerji
and Prashant More
Creative collaboration: Prashant More
Music Composer: Martin Basman
Indian Vocals: Akshata Joshi
Costume Designer: Joy Rebecca Mardi
