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Writing, in whatever form the thought demands.
Writing With Blood (Or: What I Learned From a Mood Board)
Written in October 2020 for VIS 41 in college — a sophomore, asked to compile a set of visual influences and write about them. I opened by admitting I don't really connect with art. I have since built a life around it. The closing line surprised me when I wrote it and still does.
Oct 20, 20204 min read
what happens when an ancient Sanskrit performance treatise meets a Greek tragedy
Author's Note: This essay was written in December 2019 for TDHT 21 with Professor Power-Sotomayor at UC San Diego — one of my first forays into writing critically about performance. I came to the Natyashastra not as an abstraction but as a practitioner: I had trained in Bharatanatyam for years before I ever encountered it as an academic text, which gave this particular assignment a strange doubling — the sensation of reading formal notation for something your body already kno
Dec 2, 20197 min read
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