LECDEMS / WORKSHOPS
Bharatanatyam Lec-dems
Madras Christian College:
Basics of Bharatanatyam for visiting ethnomusicologists, MCC, 2008
Rasa Theory for English literature undergraduates, MCC, 2009
Sadhana Festival, 2023, Chennai.
WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED:
Riverside Public School, Kotagiri (Nilgiris).
Kala Sangam Tanccsoport, Szeged, Hungary
Mayadhara, Clermont-Ferrand
Los Santos, Costa rica (Virtual)
Mermaid arts Centre, Bray, Ireland
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
Cashel Arts Festival, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
From Out The Land, Clonmel Arts Junction Festival, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Outreach with workshops at local schools, Cashel Arts Festival 2023
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED (BY INVITATION):
14th International Doctoral Workshop for Ethnomusicology, Centre for World Music - University of Hildesheim, June 2024.
Mother Tongue Festival, Words Work, February 2023.
IMMA, Alien Embodiments, December 2022 - March 2023.
ACADEMIC GUEST LECTURES:
O P Jindal University - "Dance, Vision and Movement"
The Central University of Ecuador - Bharatanatyam and the construction of meaning through the body
CONFERENCE:
Organiser, "Routes Beyond Roots" Indian Performing Arts Symposium, UCD School of Music, June 13-14 2024.
Co-curator, Music Research Seminar Series, UCD School of Music, 2023- 2024.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
Presentation, Jomba! Dialogues, 'Re-mediating Kolam: A Dance Perspective', 21 May 2025, South Africa.
Presentation, 'Unwriting Dance Research: Addressing the Ontological Ephemerality of Corporeal Practices', SIEF, 05 June 2025, University of Aberdeen.
Presentation and Performance, 'Remediating Kolam', March 2025, ICTMD Ireland.
Performance-Research Presentation, 'Third floor of Newman on a cold windy morning', PSi International Conference, 01 August 2023, South Africa
Modes of Capture, Symposium. "Dancing Culture, Talking Global", 9th June 2023, Limerick.
ICTM Annual Conference, "Making Bharatanatyam Online", 27th July 2022, Lisbon.
Dancing With Decolonisation - “Bharatanatyam, Coloniality, and Caste”, 23rd- 25th of July 2021, University of Roehampton Dance Dept.
“Play, Perform, Learn, Grow – Creating Belonging in Times of Pandemic, 10th - 12th of September 2021, Collab with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, East Side Institute NY, Epineio Institute, ANAMUH, Lesvos Solidarity, Odysseas – Lesvos and a hive of international organisations.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Rhythm - Rhythm in Indian dance and diasporic pathways, July 13th - 17th 2020, Rhythm Research Group of Choreomundus (Uni Roehampton/Universite Clermont Auvergne/ NTNU/ Uni Szeged) and University College, London.
WRITING PROJECTS:
(Upcoming) 2026, Chapter, “Bharatanatyam Drip>” : Women dancers of TikTok and the Changing face of Bharatanatyam, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Gender in Popular Music Industries. Bloomsbury.
(Upcoming) December 2025, Chapter, Dancing culture, Talking Global, Contemporary Choreography, 3rd edition, Routledge.
Paper publication, Dance Articulated Journal: https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/ps/issue/view/375
Volunteering project, Akademi, London, ‘Akademi at 40’. Article at https://akademi.co.uk/language-of-indian-classical-dances
Poem, “Light”, published in an anthology of women’s poetry, "Nazraana-e-Aurat", in August 2020,
Article, Sruti Magazine, Archived at: http://srutimag.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-not-to-be-rasika.html
Article, “Jenu Kuruba and their Arts”, OSLE India magazine.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS:
Short Film "An Talamh Faoi Gheasa - The Enchanted Land", Arts-Council funded film by Pradeep Mahadeshwar. Find us here: https://cassette.ie/enchanted
Dancer-Actor, 24 - 28 July 2023. Hot House Development Project, Smock Alley Theatre
Short Film "Labels on Alien Bodies", screened at Irish Museum of Modern Art, May 2023.
https://imma.ie/whats-on/alien-embodiments-a-critical-reflection/
Collaborative Short Film, "Blue", with Leia Mocan and Cleide Regina, screened at Gallery X, Dublin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqRHE9ykW-A
https://mothertonguesfestival.com/2023/04/14/collaborative-art-project-emerges-from-mother-tongues-festival/
Co-created a project on performing colonial heritages as a part of the Performance of Heritage module at Roehampton. Read more at: https://britishmuseumpohproject.weebly.com/subhashini-goda
International Creative Lab Exchange - International and Norfolk, England. Organised by Slow Theatre Company. Look us up at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2drNOobH5pA&list=PLTPiR51eMQW0bH11Kh-g7_YT3PnrbWw2m&index=7
Virtual festival for Choreomundus, “Performing the Pandemics”, March - April 2020. Read more at: https://choreomundusalumniassociation.weebly.com/blog/building-a-home-within-the-crisis-dance-and-performance-in-times-of-social-isolation
Short film, “Sari”, screened at the International Short Film Festival on Corporeal Expansion (Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Corporalidad Expandida) and Festival Internacional de Videodança do RS – FIVRS at Porta Alegre, Brazil.
Short film called “exist”, for VIII Festival de Espacios de Creación de InCuerMente - Agrupación Experimental de Danza, 11-13 December 2020.
