Dominique Savitri Bonarjee is an Indian-French artist, writer, and educator whose practice spans choreography, sound, and visual art. She shows her work in various settings, festivals, galleries, forests, public space. She mainly stages her work as live installations, combining animate and inanimate elements, composed in a way that foregrounds the energies that already inhabit the space. Working with gut-feeling, intuition, and unknown knowing, she creates immersive experiences that invite audiences into states of deep listening, remembrance, and spiritual empowerment in an era of ecological and societal collapse.

Her work is research-based, focusing on rituals and psychosomatic techniques of ancient wisdom traditions which she practices. For her, dance is a rebellion of the body: a way to reclaim time as embodied, and water as a sacred guide of resilient shapeshifting.

Her first monograph, Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer (Routledge, 2024), documents her encounters with seminal Japanese performance artists who forged dance as a visceral response to the post-atomic landscape. Her doctoral art project, Space of the Nameless (Goldsmiths, 2024), explored “the detached eye/I,” a witnessing technology inherited from her Butoh teachers. The project produced dance practices, scores, and koans designed to entice the sentience of nonhuman materiality, ambient entities, and the froth of the imaginal—guiding more equitable and loving ways of being in the world.

Selected exhibitions include: Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore; Iklectik Art Lab; Nakanojo Biennale, Japan; Chicago Art Institute; Kunstfest Weimar; the Isamu Noguchi Room, Tokyo; Galerie Wedding Berlin; Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC); Tate Modern. She collaborated with Astrida Neimanis, author of “Bodies of Water” at Lofoten International Arts Festival (2019). She has been mentored by electronic sound pioneer, Atau Tanaka.