HOME.CONTACT.PERFORMANCE.SCHOLARSHIP.TEACHING.POST NATYAM COLLECTIVE..ABOUT SANDRA.. Sandra combines her interests of choreographing, writing, and creating platforms for exchange among artists. Since completion of her PhD in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in December 2005, she has been primarily working as an independent choreographer in the genre of contemporary Indian dance in Germany and India, and as a visiting lecturer at the UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. There she taught undergraduate courses in World Dance Histories, an interdisciplinary course exploring “hybridity” in theory and practice, and a survey on Indian Dance in transnational settings co-taught with Dr. Sruti Bandopadhay from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Sandra has presented her scholarship at various conferences, most recently Re-Thinking Practice and Theory, at Centre nationale de la danse, Paris (CORD/SDHS/CND). Her professional experience as a dancer/choreographer includes solo performances in classical Indian dance, contemporary solo work and her work with the Post Natyam Collective, which she co-founded. The Post Natyam Collective is a transnational network of independent choreographers/scholars, who are actively working on finding new ways of engaging with South Asian aesthetics and of sustainable transnational collaboration in theory and practice. The collective’s five members work in body based performance, video, and scholarship. In addition she has recently started a collaboration with Indonesian dancer Eko Supriyanto. Her dance training includes Kuchipudi (Arangetram in 1991 under the guidance of Ranga Vivekananda), contemporary Western dance, Polynesian dance (Hula and Tahitian dance), Bharata Natyam, Yoga and floor barre. Her choreographic work (collaborative and solo) has been presented in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic and India, for example at the prestigious THE OTHER FESTIVAL and at Adhyaya, Bangalore in2006), and at Prakriti's Stree Sharira conference in 2007 and at Neues Haus der Münchner Kammerspiele in 2008. Pursuing her interests in creating platforms for artistic exchange, Sandra has co-organized Art SensAsian Project, a day-long festival bringing together and featuring the original work of diasporic South Asian (South-Asian/German) artists in 2006.
HOME.CONTACT.PERFORMANCE.SCHOLARSHIP.TEACHING.POST NATYAM COLLECTIVE..ABOUT SANDRA..
Sandra combines her interests of choreographing, writing, and creating platforms for exchange among artists. Since completion of her PhD in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in December 2005, she has been primarily working as an independent choreographer in the genre of contemporary Indian dance in Germany and India, and as a visiting lecturer at the UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. There she taught undergraduate courses in World Dance Histories, an interdisciplinary course exploring “hybridity” in theory and practice, and a survey on Indian Dance in transnational settings co-taught with Dr. Sruti Bandopadhay from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Sandra has presented her scholarship at various conferences, most recently Re-Thinking Practice and Theory, at Centre nationale de la danse, Paris (CORD/SDHS/CND). Her professional experience as a dancer/choreographer includes solo performances in classical Indian dance, contemporary solo work and her work with the Post Natyam Collective, which she co-founded. The Post Natyam Collective is a transnational network of independent choreographers/scholars, who are actively working on finding new ways of engaging with South Asian aesthetics and of sustainable transnational collaboration in theory and practice. The collective’s five members work in body based performance, video, and scholarship. In addition she has recently started a collaboration with Indonesian dancer Eko Supriyanto. Her dance training includes Kuchipudi (Arangetram in 1991 under the guidance of Ranga Vivekananda), contemporary Western dance, Polynesian dance (Hula and Tahitian dance), Bharata Natyam, Yoga and floor barre. Her choreographic work (collaborative and solo) has been presented in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic and India, for example at the prestigious THE OTHER FESTIVAL and at Adhyaya, Bangalore in2006), and at Prakriti's Stree Sharira conference in 2007 and at Neues Haus der Münchner Kammerspiele in 2008. Pursuing her interests in creating platforms for artistic exchange, Sandra has co-organized Art SensAsian Project, a day-long festival bringing together and featuring the original work of diasporic South Asian (South-Asian/German) artists in 2006.
Sandra combines her interests of choreographing, writing, and creating platforms for exchange among artists. Since completion of her PhD in Culture and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in December 2005, she has been primarily working as an independent choreographer in the genre of contemporary Indian dance in Germany and India, and as a visiting lecturer at the UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. There she taught undergraduate courses in World Dance Histories, an interdisciplinary course exploring “hybridity” in theory and practice, and a survey on Indian Dance in transnational settings co-taught with Dr. Sruti Bandopadhay from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Sandra has presented her scholarship at various conferences, most recently Re-Thinking Practice and Theory, at Centre nationale de la danse, Paris (CORD/SDHS/CND).
Her professional experience as a dancer/choreographer includes solo performances in classical Indian dance, contemporary solo work and her work with the Post Natyam Collective, which she co-founded. The Post Natyam Collective is a transnational network of independent choreographers/scholars, who are actively working on finding new ways of engaging with South Asian aesthetics and of sustainable transnational collaboration in theory and practice. The collective’s five members work in body based performance, video, and scholarship. In addition she has recently started a collaboration with Indonesian dancer Eko Supriyanto. Her dance training includes Kuchipudi (Arangetram in 1991 under the guidance of Ranga Vivekananda), contemporary Western dance, Polynesian dance (Hula and Tahitian dance), Bharata Natyam, Yoga and floor barre. Her choreographic work (collaborative and solo) has been presented in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic and India, for example at the prestigious THE OTHER FESTIVAL and at Adhyaya, Bangalore in2006), and at Prakriti's Stree Sharira conference in 2007 and at Neues Haus der Münchner Kammerspiele in 2008.
Pursuing her interests in creating platforms for artistic exchange, Sandra has co-organized Art SensAsian Project, a day-long festival bringing together and featuring the original work of diasporic South Asian (South-Asian/German) artists in 2006.
