jubilations

Just heard from my friend Sandra Chatterjee, of Post-Natyam, that she got her dissertation in and has been awarded her PhD from the Dept of World Arts and Culture at UCLA.

Sandra is one of the artists who reminds me that I don't need to choose between making art and rigorous intellectual inquiry. She takes books into the studio with her and reads theory as a warmup to dancing. Her life work is about challenging domesticated, colonized representations of the South Asian female body - as dancer, academic, and joyfully fierce activist.