I am in the process of undertaking a beautiful journey of discovering the self through various mediums of movement, written and visual. As someone caught between cultures, I constantly seek to embrace and distance myself from different aspects of them. To use a cliché, I would ideally want to belong to no group or no land, and yet belong to every group and every land without labels.
Artistically, I enjoy playing with ideas of Home and Identity and my creativity is influenced by memories of growing up in a multilingual, multi-religious, multicultural neighbourhood layered with simple narratives of literature, mythology, ritual, storytelling, and philosophy. I believe in the power of movement mediums where social, political, and historical contexts come together and the form becomes a living, breathing tradition that questions conventions and excavates the spaces between words and worlds.
Pedagogically, I am interested in dialogues of integration and forming a research-backed practice that focusses on equipping my learners with a rich tapestry of history, philosophy, and allied arts. I am also particularly invested in learning about dancing for trauma and therapy, as mental health is a topic often overlooked in artistic communities. I am not a diva. I am not interested in social media fanfare. I am interested in the intensity art can bring into our lives.
While Dance has been integral to my life for close to three decades, I'm also an academic researching on Indian movement practices and their diasporic counterparts, ritual and transgression, placemaking, identity, and memory.
