I'm pleased to be performing Lost Chinatowns (solo) at the invitation of Joy Brooke Fairfield as part of the Contemporary Performance Series at Rhodes College.  The series features artists working at the intersection of multi-media performance and cultural ritual ...
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Created by the Post Natyam Collective, this world premiere of “the sins of such wonderful flesh” will weave together audience participatory structures, video, and South Asian abhinaya to queer the gaze, performing erotically charged desire between ...
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It was an honor to perform Lost Chinatowns (solo) at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and Lost Chinatowns: Destruction at the Galleria, the site of Santa Cruz's last Chinatown.  This special performance of Lost ...
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Post Natyam Collective members, Cynthia Ling Lee and Sandra Chatterjee, will present an adaptation of Back to the Beautiful: Gucchupani as part of Jeewan, Pani Aur Kahaniyan - Ek Sangam (Life, Water and Stories- a Confluence).  ...
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“weaving waters: my dirt and yours” is a long-distance collaboration between Appalachia-based weaver, Jessica Green, and myself.  I gathered dirt and water from the sites where Santa Cruz’s historical Chinese communities lived and worked; Jessica integrated ...
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I'm delighted to be performing blood run in Dehradun, India at the invitation of Varsha Dewan as part of her event, Jeewan, Pani Aur Kahaniyan - Ek Sangam (Life, Water and Stories- a Confluence). Part ritual, ...
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Choreographed and performed by Cynthia and Shyamala with camerawork by Meena, Border Sawal Jawab was created as part of Borders Resurfacing, a long-distance process by the Post Natyam Collective. Border Sawal Jawab is inspired by ...
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I'd like to share this wonderful review of Lost Chinatowns by Nicole Gluckstern of KQED Arts, an NPR-member station serving San Francisco and Northern California.  Gluckstern writes: "By turns playful, melancholy, and unflinching, Lost Chinatowns...explores a ...
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