Sapphire Creations is Eastern India’s only experimental dance company striving to develop an organic, radical, dynamic and alternative idiom of movement. With a forte for innovation the ensemble is fresh, young and exudes a ready awareness of contemporary global concerns.

Sapphire has been performing with a new idiom for the last 28 years across the world. Some countries visited are Malaysia, Spain, Israel, Czech Republic, UK, Singapore, Australia, Austria, Germany, Thailand, Italy, Bangladesh, Canada, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Poland, USA and India.

Sapphire’s work approaches issues of gender, art, relationships, society, polity, consumerism and HIV through a global perspective, South Asian sensitivity and an experimental body stylistic.
The Sapphire movement technique imbibes from ancient Indian body history to relevant Western breathing techniques to modern contact, improvisatory and tuning solo and group work methods. The very curious and organic idiom that evolves from this presents itself in the proscenium, as site-specific explorations, improvisations, installations, multimedia presentations, in the fields of contemporary dance, theatre, television, film and fashion.

Beyond dance Sapphire thrusts on community building for prevention and awareness of HIV/AIDS, promotion of contemporary arts, and dance therapy for different communities. The LINK THE ARTS movements with sub-initiatives like :

• InArtSync for campus mobilization,
• Quarterly Arts Series for collaborative ventures for company and academy dancers
• International alternative arts festival INTERFACE now due for its 10^th edition in 2020
• INCRES International Choreographer’s Residency for company and academy dancers are some of the consistent efforts by Sapphire to create a niche for the contemporary arts in India.

Currently Sapphire has both School and Repertory sections