One dancers lights another dancer who shoots their leg out to the side. They are wearing orange and a city scape rises behind them.

getting the wild light into my bones

Bay Area-based choreographer Bhumi B. Patel chronicles the inspiration behind her new work "wild light" using author Donna Haraway's speculative fiction, and her desire to put on-stage the worlds she wants to see off-stage.

November 17, 2025  |  Read Article

Two dancers in a spotlight.

in search of a decolonial performance praxis

Queer, desi artist/activist Bhumi B Patel asks, "What does it mean to have a decolonial body? What is being put on and what is being shed? How do we tell the stories of our lives?" in her search of a decolonial performance praxis.

June 27, 2022  |  Read Article

On Appropriating Gender, Sex and Identity

Justin Carder, Bhumi B. Patel and Grace Towers, all artists in the Bay Area, discuss the topic of Appropriating Gender, Sex and Identity: Authenticity in the Arts, part of the series Tabled by Chlo & Co Dance.

August 17, 2020  |  Read Article