Apeksha Vora facilitated a body movement workshop for students in the Historical and Anthropological Perspectives in Gender elective course on April 11, 2026.

The workshop created a bridge between textual analysis and embodied experience. Through movement exercises, the class began to pay attention to how they relate to one another, and try to engage as a collective. The workshop rearranged the spatial hierarchy of a conventional classroom, de-centering the place of the instructor and inviting students to direct the course of the session. Participants were encouraged to attend to moments of hesitation or discomfort, and to reflect on how these responses are shaped by social expectations.

Apeksha is a theatre practitioner working at the intersection of performance, pedagogy and research. She approaches theatre as a method of inquiry rather than a final performance. Her feminist practice draws attention to embodiment, acknowledging that feeling is both valid knowledge and socially constructed. Our bodies carry memory, internalise norms, and register power.

Organised by the NLS Law and Society Archives, the workshop was part of a broader commitment to expanding what counts as an archive. The Archives is interested not only in preserving documents but also in cultivating ways of attending to practices, affects, and forms of knowledge that are often ephemeral. Theatre, in this sense, offers a way of engaging with the archive as something lived and enacted, rather than only stored.

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