Vikram Iyengar

Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector. A dancer-choreographer-director, curator-presenter, and arts researcher-writer, his work spans performance practice, discourse, critique, ideation, consultancy and management with the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. His 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 and reviews regularly feature in academic and arts publications. He is founder-director of the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation presenting work in very unusual spaces activating conversations between the physicality of dance and the physicality of architecture. He is an ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, a Global Fellow Grad of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), an alumnus of Creative Australia’s International Arts Leaders Programme and a Global Connector (2024) for IETM. In December 2015, he was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for contemporary dance by the national Sangeet Natak Akademi. He is currently consulting with the European Delegation to India as an expert in culture.