# Decolonizing Dance

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E3: Decolonizing Dance and Yoga with Chitra Vairavan

In this episode, dancer, choreographer, and artist Chitra Vairavan speaks with SooJin about how her experience with racism and caste discrimination as a Tamil, non-Brahmin artist spurred her to create alternative practices rooted in deep listening and self-love. These principles serve as the founda…

Episode 34: Exploring Identity with Keith Haynes

In this episode, Celtic gets Marxist drunk with the incredible Modern dancer/choreographer Keith Haynes as they discuss being inspired to excel in art and dance by his mother, starting his formal training at 19, how identity shapes his art, being “chosen” by Modern dance, relating to the dances of …

Off Season Chats - Kaustavi Sarkar on Decolonizing Academia & Minds

In the second episode of Off Season Chats, Ameya and Kiran speak with Kaustavi Sarkar, an Odissi dancer, researcher, and educator based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She shares her artistic and academic journey, bridging research and practice, decolonizing dance and academia, and building a South A…

Selena Coburne on embodiment as terrifying but necessary in practice, in ethics and in difference

In this conversation, I am speaking with Selena Coburn BC-DMT, LMHC, LCPC, who is currently serving as the ADTA Standards and Ethics Chair. We discuss the challenges the ADTA is facing as an organization and how the change and growth often involve discomfort and negotiating difference. …

#2 Decolonizing Dance

Pita and Sam - two dancers and music lovers,  take a Deep Dive into the ways colonization and capitalism have affected the art, culture and industry of dance. Sam reconnects to their Irish roots and Riverdance obsession after discovering Sean Nós dance. The two "Disney Kids" share their favorite ri…

Ep. 13: Cathleen Meredith - Loving Fat Bodies Through the Universal Language of Dance

Writer, fat activist, and founder of Fat Girls Dance, Cathleen Meredith talks to Kirsten and Rachel about tearing down the stereotypes of fat bodies through the joy of dance, attaching our worth to productivity, Cathleen's strategy for dealing with internet trolls, and inherited conversations aroun…

Respecting Ourselves During the Pandemic with Leo Morris

This episode is a conversation I shared with the extraordinary Leo Morris. Leo (they/he) is a Black, trans, queer, neurodivergent community organizer, who is currently based on the East Coast and is providing mutual aid through hired services, consulting, and managing his dance nonprofit, Decoloniz…

Coronavirus & Chaabi

Corona has thrown M Train (and all of society) for a bit of a loop. So we threw the script out for this episode and called up Dr. Ahmed Hozain, a surgical resident and researcher currently working in NYC, to talk about COVID-19, convincing your boomer parents to stay home, and virtual jum’ahs. Then…

M Train: Coronavirus & Chaabi

Corona has thrown M Train (and all of society) for a bit of a loop. So we threw the script out for this episode and called up Dr. Ahmed Hozain, a surgical resident and researcher currently working in NYC, to talk about COVID-19, convincing your boomer parents to stay home, and virtual jum'ahs. Then…

Breaking the Chains: Decolonizing Dance, Reclaiming Identity – Inspired by T. Ayo Blue Alston

In this episode of Sis Unleashed, we dive into the revolutionary work of T. Ayo Blue Alston, who is transforming West African dance by reclaiming its true roots and challenging colonial narratives. Discover how decolonizing cultural traditions can heal communities, embrace the full spectrum of Blac…