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Talk at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco (30 Mar 2018)
I was delighted to give a performative talk as part of a roundtable entitled "Performing Protest, Choreographing Coalitions: Asian American Performance and the Politics of Solidarity" at the annual Association for Asian American Studies conference on ...
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Premiere of “Back to the Beautiful” at Kavernen/Republic, Salzburg Austria (18 Nov 2017)
This November, I traveled to Salzburg to co-create a new full-length performance installation, Back to the Beautiful (Cellar), with Sandra Chatterjee. Inspired by the Saalach river as both a site of natural beauty and potential border tension, ...
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“blood run” at Kuandu Arts Festival, Taipei Taiwan (Oct 26-27, 2017)
Part ritual, part performance art, part colonial history inscribed on the body, blood run investigates my Han Chinese colonizer and Taiwanese plains indigenous heritage within the context of larger political histories. Combining experimental video, dance, and poetic ...
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Roundtable at DSA, Ohio State University, Columbus OH (Oct 19-22 2017)
This roundtable brings together the authors -- both scholars and artists -- featured in Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford 2017). We ask how individuals, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the ...
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Talk at Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, Las Vegas NV (3-6 Aug 2017)
I presented a talk, "South Asian Approaches to Devising and Choreography" at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference in Las Vegas from 3-6 August, 2017. The presentation was part of a roundtable discussion by Asian ...
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“blood run” screening at World Dance Alliance Global Summit, St. John’s Newfoundland (26 Jul 2017)
My film, "blood run," will be screened at the World Dance Alliance Global Summit at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada as part of their Digital Dance Concert. Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 9-11 am World ...
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“rapture/rupture” at EXPLODE! Queer Dance, NYC (23 Jun 2017)
It was an honor to be in loving community with queer badass artists at EXPLODE! Queer Dance, curated by the extraordinary Clare Croft. I performed "rapture/rupture" with my favorite art-wife and partner-in-crime, Shyamala Moorty, at JACK as well as ...
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Bodies, Borders, Migrations Workshop, Munich Germany (16 Jun 2017)
In this workshop, we will create artistic explorations and initiate community dialogue that draws on our personal/ancestral migration histories, while engaging with the realities of people who are directly affected by a growing global resurgence of ...
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