12 July 2024, and Pickle Factory turns 6! It’s been a rollercoaster ride since 2017, as we have consistently created and offered fresh modes, spaces and experiences of dance and movement performance to diverse audiences in Calcutta and beyond. In our quest and commitment to support, nurture, challenge and develop our local dance ecologies and engage a range of communities, we have worked with artists and guests from our city, the rest of India and abroad in the craziest of spaces converting them into magical pop-up performance venues and experiences, redefining relationships between physical movement and physical space. Dance can, does – and must – happen anywhere, with anyone, for anyone; and it can, does, and must transform everyone and everything it touches.

In 6 years over 700+ programmes in Calcutta and elsewhere, we have featured 400+ artists and guests from 20+ countries across 6 continents (we have not yet managed to work with the artists who may live in Antarctica). We have reached 1,00,000+ audiences in person and online, worked in 50+ venues and with 100+ local, national and international collaborators. We have been a focus organization in 10+ international festivals, and guest curated for festivals in Scotland, South Africa and – of course – India. Most importantly, we have been humbled, inspired and gratefully overwhelmed by the wealth of goodwill, appreciation, and solidarity that has come to us from our ever-expanding family from all over the world.