Garbh - Part of Derby Feste 2026
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Date: 26 Sep 2026 1.20pm - 1.50pm & 4.40pm - 5.10pm
Description
Garbh (womb) is an innovative, in-the-round, outdoor dance work that reimagines ancient Gujarati Folk Dance ‘Garba’, giving voice to this underrepresented ancestral form through contemporary choreography and immersive design.
Honouring divine feminine energy ‘Shakti’, Garbh embodies the source of life, force of transformation, and essence of motherhood. The ensemble, orbiting a lit, central clay lantern that signifies life within the womb, explores themes of community, creation, resilience, and unity, transforming public spaces into vibrant sites of shared celebration and embodied ritual.
Through installation, bespoke soundscape, costume, and culturally rooted choreography, this new work transports audiences through a journey of life’s cycles in an enlivening, soulful experience that speaks to human connection and ecological renewal.
This performance starts at the Waterfall for a Promenade to their main performance site in Derby Market Place.
Access:
Audio described
1.20pm - 1.50pm - Derby Market Hall
4.40pm - 5.10pm - Derby Market Hall
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