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New Book Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies (2019)
I'm pleased to have a new book chapter, "Longing for the Subaltern: Subaltern Historiography as Choreographic Tactic," published in The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies, edited by Stacey Prickett and Helen Thomas. Abstract: ...
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Paper at National Women’s Studies Association conference, San Francisco, CA (Nov 14-17, 2019)
I'll be presenting a paper, "Queering Orientalism, Performing Reception: Post Natyam Collective’s 'the sins of such wonderful flesh,'" at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference as part of a panel titled Queering (Il)legibility: Performing Otherwise ...
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New Research in Dance Studies Colloquium Series, UC Riverside (Oct 16, 2019)
the sins of such wonderful flesh: Installation, Artist Talk, and Creative Workshop Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty offer a combined artist talk, interactive installation, and creative workshop on the sins of ...
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Confluences and Divergences, UC Irvine, Irvine CA (Oct 10, 2019)
I'll be serving a emcee for Confluences and Divergences, the keynote performance for the “Interrogating South Asia” conference at UC Irvine. Confluences and Divergence includes a retrospective of Post Natyam Collective's dance-for-camera pieces and elements from ...
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Dance Studies Association Conference, Northwestern University, Chicago IL (Aug 8-11, 2019)
I'm delighted to be presenting a talk, "Natya as Postcolonial Performance-Making," as part of the "Decolonizing Dance Discourses" gatherings organized by Anurima Banerji and Royona Mitra at this year's Dance Studies Association Conference at Northwestern University. These ...
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Dance-for-Camera Works at Indernet, Cologne (June 28-July 4, 2019)
I'm pleased that three dance-for-camera works created as part of the Post Natyam Collective's Borders Resurfacing process -- Border Sawal Jawab; Saalach | San Lorenzo (or, Two Rivers, Two Continents); and a.p.a.r.t. -- will be screened ...
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“Lost Chinatowns” at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s NuWorks, NYC (June 25 & 28, 2019)
I'm pleased to be performing Lost Chinatowns (solo) at the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's NuWorks Performance Series 2019 from June 25-30. Lost Chinatowns is a solo dance-theater work that explores the invisibilized histories of Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns ...
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Digital + Performance Convening, Kingston, Canada (June 12, 2019)
I'm honored to have been invited to the Digital + Performance Convening, co-produced by Howlround Theatre Commons and SpiderWebShow Performance, as a representative of the Post Natyam Collective. The convening will bring together up to fifty ...
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