Change of venue for Nov. 22nd at UCLA
Post Natyam
Dept. of World Arts and Cultures Noontime Brown Bag Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 22, 12noon-1pm
***CHANGE OF VENUE***
208 Glorya Kaufman Hall
"Not Our Girls! South Asian Women Undomesticate the Female Body in
Performance"
A presentation by Sandra Chatterjee, World Arts and Cultures PhD
candidate
Presenter:
"In her choreography, Sandra draws primarily on her training in
Bharata Natyam (with Malathi Iyengar and Arup Ghosh), and Kuchipudi (as
a disciple of Ranga Vivekananda, Jaya Rama and Vanashree Rao). While
living in Munich, she taught and performed classical Indian dance. In
addition, she has been trained in modern/postmodern dance, ballet, yoga
and Polynesian dance, while living in Hawaii for four years. It is
impossible to live in Hawaii without studying Hula, especially for
dancer! More than Hula, however, she studied Tahitian dance, traveled
to Tahiti, and learned and performed there. In 1998 she received a
Cultural Preservation Award, and in 1999 a Choreographic Award, both
from the Hawai'i State Dance Council. After she moved to Los Angeles to
pursue a graduate degree at UCLA, she began an ongoing collaboration
with choreographer Shyamala Moorty and later Anjali Tata, developing
contemporary Indian choreography. The three choreographers recently
founded the Post Natyam Collective.
She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of World Arts and
Cultures at UCLA, where she is working on developing the intersections
between choreography, theory and activism. Her dissertation focuses on
the female body, female sexuality, and South Asian women's
performance."
Taken from www.sandrachatterjee.net