Choreography/ Composition of Solo Dances with Yashoda Thakore, Hari Sivanesan and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at Bunjil Place. The work offered two solo dancers (one on screen) and the other live to perform with the Melbourne Symphony and South Indian carnatic musicians to highlight the encounter between dancers from India who travelled and toured Europe in 1838.

Andal has been performed in many parts of the world starting at Dancehouse but then being performed in Bangalore, Europe and back to Melbourne for Sangam Screens in Dandenong. It brings together one vocalist and dancer in conversation, movement, song and visuals around an 8th century unique female poet from South India and intertwining her poems and songs of love and loss with my own journey in relationship to my grandmother.

Co-Directed with Hari Sivanesan as an ensemble multidisciplinary performance for Sangam at Bunjil Place. It was a screen performance that included music, dance and visual elements in retelling an old folktale about a woman who could turn herself into a tree.

My work started in collaboration with First Nations artists such as Vicki Couzens and Gina Maree Bundle in a takeover of Bunjilaka Melbourne Museum to guide audiences through a journey of ancient and contemporary stories around spirits, guides, the Earth mother, racism and the ways to find commonalities between our cultures. This was Serpent Dreaming Women funded by DFAT as an important intervention between Australia India relations. This developed into the project “Churning Waters” for “Australia Festival in India” of which I was the Artistic Director and performer in site specific performances in Puducherry, Chennai, Kanjeevaram (India). With Indigenous and Indian artists: Priyadarsini Govind, Thilagavati Palani, Uthra Vijay, Gina Bundle, Sylvia Nulpinditj and Nadine Lee. The work was received with high acclaim and the first of its kind in bringing together community practices in professional contexts.

Sweating Saris is a multimedia performance based on my book Sweating Saris: Indian Dance As Transnational Labour. I created solo, duets and trios of performances based on the book because I wanted to share the main theoretical ideas in the book in a simpler manner.

A site-specific intermedia performance at the Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam and was a takeover by an intergenerational Surinamese choir and dancers. I directed and choreographed this project which was the first of its kind in the Museum.

Performed at the immigration museum for AsiaTOPA the work was part of a triple bill that looked at migrant longing. With dance and music as the focus, the piece took audiences on a walking journey around the museum “ship” installation in the great hall.

These images represent over 18 performance seasons at the Arts Center Melbourne when I began my career as a dancer and fledgling choreographer who contributed to the making of a few of these works.