Works

darshan (2009)
The term “darshan” refers to a fluid, tactile, and reciprocal mode of seeing: an exchange of gazes that transforms both ...
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Nine-Patch (2009)
A collaboration with jazz/new music composer David Cutler. Veering between in-your-face funk, explosive extremes, and poignant gestures, Cutler composes wildly ...
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Compromised Interpretation (2009)
This site-specific, room-sized installation integrates Taiwanese visual artist YaYa Chou’s sculptural work with dance by Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala ...
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I longed to go back to the beginning… (2008)
A contemporary kathak investigation of sam in North Indian rhythmic tradition. Sam means "to conjoin or come together," and refers ...
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Meet me here, now – I’ll bring my then and there… (2007)
An improvisational text-movement duet performed with José Reynoso. This piece investigates how two people with different cultural histories (a Taiwanese-American ...
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ruddha (rude, huh?) (2007)
What if two different dance forms, American postmodern dance and North Indian classical kathak, were to argue and converse with ...
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fish hook tongue (2007)
Drawing on contemporary dance-theater, diasporic women's poetry, and abhinaya (emotional expression in Indian dance), this solo exposes the horrors and ...
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Counting the Moons (2006)
Love, loss, and the slippery relationships between self, friend, and lover emerge in this contemporary take on abhinaya (emotional expression) ...
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