09/22/2026
Dabba
Choreographed & Danced by:
Music: “Hang Drum + Tabla” by Meditative Mind
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About This Work: India’s working and middle-class families. It represents a domesticated ritual of preparing home-cooked food and packing it with care. As the receiver unravels each layer, it needs to be pondered over, chewed upon, and burped after. For Rathi, the dabba is an important part of her
childhood that takes her back to sharing her tiffin with school friends, sending food to their neighbours, or packing a meal for someone in a hospital. These everyday gestures go beyond the physicality of the dabba; it becomes a storehouse of care, responsibility, and quiet resilience. “Dabba” explores how a steel object can hold memory, labour, and vulnerability within the body.”
