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Works

Learning, Performing, Organising

Performance, Conferences, Festivals and Workshops

I have been a participant of multiple performances, workshops and retreats associated with body-mind work, dance, theatre and education

Teaching, Practice, Diverse Student Demography

Teaching Yoga

Certified from Yoga Alliance in Hatha Yoga, I have been teaching for 8 years now. 
My student demography has varied from the ages of 12 to octagenarians. 
I consider my strengths alignment, mobility and bringing body-mind alliance.

Teaching Creative Movement, embodied pedagogy, adolescent community

Return to Movement

I am currently teaching at Buguri Library through the organisation Hasirudalla. It is in a community space with the purpose of providing children of the community a space of their own to build skills and express themselves. 
I am working with the adolescent group that has been out of the library for a while. We have worked on different forms of movement that enable experiences of different kinds.

Curriculum Development, Teaching, Classroom, Creative Movement

Performance Arts Education : Same Same but Different

I am currently co-developing and co-teaching the performance arts curriculum with Shabari Rao at Pramiti School, Kanakapura.

Folk Artists, Festival Organising, Reimagining Futures

Between The Light: Shadow Puppetry Festival

I was the lead organiser in the festival 'Between the Light'. It was a 3 day festival at Azim Premji University. It had multiple lecture demonstrations, panel discussions, performances and workshops on the present, past and future of the folk form of Shadow Puppetry as well as the artists.

Embodied Pedagogy, Teacher training, Art

ArtEd

A year-long teacher training program for the Pre-primary and primary teachers of Azim Premji School. It was an embodied program that allowed the teachers to build persepectives on art education and explored their own experiences, ideas and teaching practices.

Embodied Education, Teacher Training,  Teaching and Impact

Moving to Change

A project facilitated for the training of 10-12 teachers to introduced embodied pedagogies into the classroom. It reached about 250 students and was highly valuable for the teachers involed as well as myself.

Teaching Art, Transformational Pedagogy, Performance Pedagogy

Jen Taroke Hogana

A school production for students coming from diverse backgrounds. The project was a venture in transformation performance pedagogy. It allowed the students different ways of shifting their existing relationships and perceptions of bees and nature. It was also a novel opportunity for students to problem-solve, think critically and develop multiple skills of analysis and reflection through empathetic artistic work.

Embodied Pedagogy, Teaching and Learning, Practice Research, Classroom

Becoming and Being

My work on building relationships, habits and practices with 24 students in a 3rd grade classroom at an Urdu Medium Government School. We worked to build habits that were meant to resist years of generational trauma and violence.

Research, Teaching and Writing

Let's Not Just Talk about Sex Maybe?

My undergraduate thesis on "Embodied Education of Sexuality". It was a practice research project that brought analytical frameworks of feminism, phenomenology and embodiment together with sexuality education

Teaching Dance, Trauma-based pedagogy, Relationship Building

Kolkata Sanved : Trauma, Care and Movement

I did a month long internship at Kolkata Sanved where I taught 8 girls between the ages of 11-16 dance. I worked with them on performance but gained a lot of insight on the work of the body in trauma, building relationships. The work introduced me to the conceptual depth, impact and relevance of body-based work.

Teaching Dance, Social Sector, Collaborative Arts Project

Look At Us

Apprenticing with Natya and STEM Dance Kampni allowed me to teach at Ulsoor. Located at the Dhobi ghats, these dance classes resulted in a music video made to throw light on the talent and capabilities present in the children there. This was in association with Meghshaala and Look At Us.

Ecology, Marine life, Relationship Building

Nature Education

I worked with Gerry Martin, Terra Marine Research Institute, Arocha India and Madras Crocodile Bank in different aspects of ecology, marine biology and herpetology. 
It gave me extremely strong insights in working with human-animal-nature relationships. 
It allowed me to critique notions of disembodied,"objective" research and education and develop ways of being and working with nature that are restorative, healing and strengthening.

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