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.

Abou 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 requires no additional cost and free.

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