Movement

My movement practice is based in Bharathanatyam, Contemporary, and Modern dance. It is central to my work in unraveling my own individual journey of finding and understanding home, creating home, and discovering home. I’m also currently perplexed by and obsessed with time: time as home, time capturing home, time separating home, time as grief, and time as a never-ending forward motion.

Selected Works

“Through the Vortex” has been showcased at Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture 2023 and Shawl Anderson Dance Center’s AAPI Salon 2023.

Invited participant for Melisa Zulberti’s workshop at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

“kālá” created and shown in Residency with Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program 2024.

 “- - . - . - / - . - - .” created and shown at Shawl Anderson Dance Center’s Anniversary Salon 2025.

My substack is very much a place of play and experimentation as I trip and fall to create multimedia work. I hope it’s a place of authentic, at times disjointed, sometimes healing, quirky good fun!

Writing and Multimedia

My work is inspired by the Asian American experience in the United States, really my Indian-American experience, and my search for home. Through a mix of memoirs, short stories, poetry, dance and photography, I focus on unraveling and understanding my own individual journey, creating loving spaces, and using story-telling as a form of activism. To say, I was here, we are here, and we matter.

Selected published works with ANMLY magazine

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  • kālá
    2/21/25

    kālá

    Made in residency with the Unrehearsed Artist Residency and performed at Joe Goode Annex. This piece is an exploration of trying to get back to a home that no longer physically exists, where it’s lost in time, feels so present but is actually intangible.

  • "- - . - . - / - . - - ."
    2/21/25

    "- - . - . - / - . - - ."

    This piece is about mornings with(out) Mocha, grief, and time. 

  • Through the Vortex (a work in progress)
    5/31/23

    Through the Vortex (a work in progress)

    Through the Vortex is a work in progress that explores the longing, loss, disembodiment, surrealism and existential dread that I, and really we all, experienced through the pandemic (a wormhole of time I deem “the Vortex”). Through a series of journal entries, music, movement and film, I aim to understand and give space for exploring the isolated yet universal journey we all went through over the course of three years that decimated and transformed everything. Including myself. Healing, as I exit the Vortex, into what I truly believe is the most authentic and grounded version of me.