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
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
The Need for Relevancy and Decolonization in Higher Education
London-based dance artist Shannon Oleson shares how conversations on decolonization and transferable skills within the dance curriculum arose while doing her MFA research.
September 24, 2020 | Read Article
Indigeneity and Identity
An Interview with Dakota Camacho BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Dakota Camacho is a multi-disciplinary artist from Låguas yan Gåni, the ancestral homeland of Matao/CHamoru people (Dominating culture calls this archipelago the Mariånas Islands). Dakota works in spaces of Indigenous performance, musical composition, community engagement, and education. Guiya (they) is also a co-founder […]
March 11, 2019 | Read Article
On Native-ness, Decolonization, and Iterative Dance-Making
An Interview with Rosy Simas BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Rosy Simas is a Native contemporary choreographer from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Her new work, Weave, weaves through multiple cities and iterations. Here, she discusses white voyeurism of Native cultures, decolonization, and her process of iterative dance-making. This interview took place […]
October 8, 2018 | Read Article