babli

If forced to choose, I would call myself a choreographer in the first place. I do have a PhD in Culture and Performance, but I spend most of my time working on everything that is connected to performing: creating work, self-managing, fund-raising, and many other things. On the whole, I spend a lot more time in front of the computer than dancing...
My newest venture is a new piece of choreography tentatively titled “Waiting for Rasika” –very generally speaking I am thinking about the idea of portraiture - and, while in Mumbai, I had the opportunity to collaborate with photographer Anjali Bhargava (www.anjalib.net, also, see Anjali in my Top Friends) on a series of portraits.
[these are some of the photos by Anjali, www.anjalib.net, or look in my Top friends]
In my choreography I draw on my training classical Indian dance -Kuchipudi and Bharata Natyam, Polynesian dance, modern/postmodern dance, and yoga.
Overall, my interests combine choreographing/performing, writing, as well as creating platforms for international cultural exchange primarily among contemporary South Asian artists.
Hence, I co-organized Munich's first multi-genre art festival for South Asian contemporary artists with my friends from Munich Masala (check out the Art sensAsian Profile below!)
And, yes, I also write scholarship. My most recent publication was an article about D'Lo (see my Top Friends) which was published in the journal Women and Performance in November 2006. Layout Provided By FreeCodeSource.com - Myspace Layouts