“Community-Art-Resistance” is an ongoing research project that explores the potentials of community dance in facilitating social and political change. It interrogates how dancers, choreographers and dance educators can facilitate and support spaces of creativity and resistance in different cultural contexts. Recognising the significance of both community and creativity as essential components of societal change and as sites of resistance, the project aims to develop artistic tools that enable collaborative artistic work between communities and artists. Fundamental to the project is the understanding that one’s own liberation is bound up with the liberation of others. Hence the practice of training oneself as an artist towards the adoption of an attitude of solidarity as opposed to charity, is central to the research. The project commenced during the Goethe Institute's international residency program in Banaras, India, in November-December 2022. For its inaugural phase, Ghazal Ramzani collaborated with students from the 'Durgakund Public School' in Banaras.