My academic writing on dance can be found here.

Learning and understanding my position as a dancer, researcher, and student taught me the ways I can acknowledge the original and current hereditary practitioners of this art. In doing so, I recognize the multiple fraught histories of Bharatanatyam and its affiliated arts. I recognize that the intersections of race, class, caste, gender, sexuality, among other entities have enabled me in practicing this art form to the extent that I have.

This acknowledgment is part of my commitment: to confront exclusions and attempted erasures of Indigenous, Black, and Brown peoples, and others; to accept/embrace/acknowledge peoples’ bodies in their wide range of capacities, abilities, forms, and qualities; to be radically inclusive of queer peoples and bodies in the world and in our field; to support peaceful human mobility across land and waters for all; to being a good guest in travel; to being in a respectful relationship to the land wherever I am; and to building relationships–including becoming a good ally and accomplice. My goal in choreography, research, and curation is to keep acknowledging these truths and learning as I dance. Thank you for being here!

Adapted from UCR Department of Dance Acknowledgement of Land and People