Ep. 66: Telling stories through movement with dancer and Thresh Performing Arts Collaborative founder Preeti Vasudevan
From Bharatnatyam in India to modern dance at the Guggenheim, my latest guest embodies both range and depth in her movement practice, which she now shares with young people in her role as an educator. Choreographer, performer, and founder of Thresh Performing Arts Collaborative, Preeti Vasudevan joins me in this chat about dance, identity, and story telling which will inspire you to move (even if you’re as ungraceful as I am) and rethink contemporary dance.
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SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 66:
Learn more about Preeti and Thresh at https://www.threshdance.org/
Connect with Thresh on Instagram
The Red Curtain collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma
BOOKS and MORE:
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Nair
Two books of essays I really enjoyed:
Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings by Wendy Perron
Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication by Mindy Aloff & Robert Gottlieb including an interesting essay by Susan Sontag
Two kids books about dance:
A graphic novel my daughter and I loved: To Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel & Mark Siegel
On my list to read: A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
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