About Preethi Ramaprasad

Preethi Ramaprasad is a performer and doctoral student in Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research is based on the politics of bharatanatyam, mythologies, and transnationalism.

NBN Episodes hosted by Preethi:

Suraj Yengde, "Caste Matters" (India Viking, 2019)

November 25, 2020

Caste Matters

Suraj Yengde

“India is not yet a nation. It is still in an improvisational mode like a jazz band that needs to perform repeatedly together in order to uplift ever…

Ahalya Satkunaratnam, "Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharatanatyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)

October 15, 2020

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict

Ahalya Satkunaratnam

“How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?” Satkunaratnam asks this through her tex…