Thank You for Your Visit by Damini Gairola and Maitreyee Joshi

Important Note:

The Touch Tour pass is free and grants entry to the touch tour ONLY. Please buy the performance pass separately to avail entry to the performance.

About the Touch Tour:

A special pre-performance touch tour (exclusively for blind and visually impaired audience) at six'O clock offers an orientation to the space performers costumes and props—enhancing the experience for blind and visually impaired audience members. The tour lasts about half an hour and precedes the performance. It is a pre-introduction and orientation to the performance area performers costumes props used seating and entry and exits of the space. The touch tour is completely free and does not require any additional cost.

About the Performance:

The approximate duration of the piece is about an hour and ten minutes long. Strictly no entry after the third bell.

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.

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.

Creative Team

💡 Concept Choreography & Performance: Damini Gairola & Maitreyee Joshi

🔊 Audio Description (India): Aabha Soumitra

🎭 Light Design: Sanket Parkhe

🎼 Music: Anne Leira van Poppel y Lubeigt

🎨 Costume & Stage: Ilona Klein

Supported by Goethe Institut Pune & Peace Projects

Host or Publisher G5A Foundation For Contemporary Culture