Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Chitra Vairavan - Season 10, Episode 119

Chitra Vairavan is an artist, seeker, contemporary indian dancer/choreographer and educator born in Milwaukee, WI (occupied Potowatami, Ho Chunk and Menomonee land) and culturally raised as an artist based in Mni Sota Makoce / Minnesota (occupied Dakota Oyate land). With ancestral roots in Kandanur and Rayavaram, she is immersed in Tamil/Thamizh culture and progressive politics in the U.S. Her embodied practice and experimental process is rooted in deep listening, spatial observation, freedoms, poetry, vulnerability and ancestral memory. Vairavan dances to heal and creates dance to help heal others. The aesthetic of her movement is through both yoga and contemporary Indian dance forms – mainly a mixture of training in Bharatanatyam, Odissi and Yorchha™.