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“Lost Chinatowns” at CounterPulse, San Francisco CA (Dec 6-8 & 13-15, 2018)

This fall I've been hard at work developing Lost Chinatowns into an ensemble piece under the auspices of a 2018 CounterPulse Performing Diaspora artist residency.  Animated by the vibrant contributions of dancers Clarissa Dyas, Zoe Huey, and ...
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Article on “Back to the Beautiful (Drava)”

Enjoy this lovely preview and interview about Back to the Beautiful (Drava) performed at Narodini dom Maribor on November 8, 2018!  https://www.vecer.com/lepota-ne-sme-zamegliti-problemov-6608538   ...
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“Back to the Beautiful (Drava)” at Narodni dom Maribor, Maribor Slovenia (Nov 8, 2018)

It was a pleasure to perform a new version of Back to the Beautiful with Sandra Chatterjee adapted for the Drava River in Maribor, Slovenia on Nov 8, 2018 at Nardoni dom Maribor. Back to the ...
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“Lost Chinatowns” at 3GT’s New Works Festival, San Francisco (July 29, 2018)

I'm honored to have been chosen as one of 3Girls Theatre Company's resident Innovators.  Based in San Francisco, 3Girls Theatre Company develops, produces and promotes new plays by women playwrights; their Innovators Series builds bridges between technological and ...
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“Lost Chinatowns” at Fury Factory Festival, San Francisco (July 17 & 19, 2018)

I'm pleased to be performing a solo in-process excerpt of Lost Chinatowns at the Fury Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theater on July 17 and 19 at Z Below in San Francisco.  The work will ...
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Paper at DSA, University of Malta (June 5-8, 2018)

I will be presenting a paper, "Dancing Misfits: Ethnicity, Alterity, and Cultural Representation in 'Contemporary' Dance," at the 2018 Dance Studies Association conference, entitled "Contra: Dance & Conflict," at the University of Malta in Valleta, Malta ...
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Performance of “Bodies | Borders” with Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh at UC Santa Cruz (28 Apr 2018)

I'm pleased to be performing the first incarnation of "Bodies | Borders," a new kathak-Iranian dance collaboration with Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh, at the Shahnameh and Beyond symposium at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at Porter ...
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New Book Chapter in Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities (2018)

I'm pleased to have my work, Super Ruwaxi: Origins, co-created with Shyamala Moorty, featured on the cover of a new critical anthology of Indian dance scholarship, Matters of Indian Dance: Memories, Markets, Identities, edited by Pallabi ...
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