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Cynthia Ling Lee

Choreographer and scholar creating queer, feminist-of-color, and postcolonial interventions

Committed to intimate collaborative processes and ethical intercultural exchange, Cynthia Ling Lee's choreography and scholarship focus on transnational web-based collaboration and postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color approaches to contemporary South Asian performance. Deeply rooted in North Indian classical kathak and American postmodern dance, Cynthia's interdisciplinary performance work has been presented at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), East West Players (Los Angeles), Taman Ismail Marzuki (Jakarta), Kuandu Arts Festival (Taipei), and Chandra-Mandapa: Spaces (Chennai). Recent publications include articles in Feminist Media: Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship (eds. Elke Zobl and Ricarda Drüeke), and Studies in South Asian Film and Media.  Cynthia was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, an Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Exchange Fellowship, a Taipei Artist Village Residency, a NET/TEN grant, two Santa Monica Individual Artist Fellowships, and two Artists' Resource for Completion grants. Cynthia is a member of the Post Natyam Collective, a transnational web-based coalition of contemporary South Asian dance artists, and is a proud board member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters. She is assistant professor of dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a cross-appointment in women and gender studies. www.cynthialinglee.com

 

Several photos of Cynthia Ling Lee.
Interweaving Theory and Practice
Essay

Interweaving Theory and Practice

the Post Natyam Collective's Web-based Collaborative Process

30 October 2014

Over the past seven years, the Post Natyam Collective’s creative practice has transitioned from in-person collaboration to web-based collaboration. Often our process is deeply informed by scholarly engagement, including feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonial studies, and subaltern histories of Indian classical dance forms. Collective members often develop promising seeds from our shared processes into diverse products: dance-for-camera pieces, art installations, lecture-demonstrations, performance works, and scholarly papers.