Gear up for LURU: Bengaluru’s first Screendance Festival
The LURU Screendance Festival is set to debut in Bengaluru this September, exploring the intersection of choreography and cinema. The event will feature international film screenings, awards, and discussions on the future of dance-film as a medium.
Why it matters
It represents a growing interest in niche interdisciplinary arts and the formalization of screendance as a recognized creative field in India.
The first edition of the LURU Screendance Festival 2026 will be held from September 12 to 19 in Bengaluru. Presented by Vishwakiran Nambi Dance Company, in collaboration with Choreoscope Barcelona Dance Film Festival, the festival is conceived and curated by dancer-choreographer Vishwakiran Nambi. The aim, he says, is to explore “what happens when choreography begins to exist through cinema. When a body enters a film, it does not merely carry dance from the stage to the screen. The camera alters space, the edit reshapes time, and framing, sound, light and movement operate as parts of a single choreographic language.”
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