Selected Performances
2018, Parades and Changes: Dressing/Undressing, Paper Dance, de Young Museum, SF
2018, Selected Scores, de Young Museum, SF
2018, ritual of the brides of Kimberley, solo, Cellula, 145 Eddy, San Francisco, CA
2018, Picking up the Pieces, 145 Eddy, San Francisco, CA
2018, Whisper, 'El Cerrito' Book Launch, Berkeley, CA
2017, AAMAA, Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu Triennale
2017, Earthly Bodies, director: Anna Halprin, 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco
2017, Walking with Milk, performed with Ashmina Ranjit, Monali Meher, Alice Fox and Marie Julia Bolansee, Kathmandu Triennale, Nepal
2017, AAMAA performances, Siddhartha Art Gallery
2017, Ma (part 1-4) film, exhibited Siddhartha Art Gallery
2017, Performance for Body, performed with Keepa Maskey, Siddhartha Art Gallery
2016, Sensory City, choreographer: Anna Halprin, San Francisco, CA
2015, Henri, The Smith Center for Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV
2014, Working Title: Henri, North American Cultural Laboratory, NY, NY
2013, One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle, Loomstate, NY, NY
Exhibitions
2017 Ma: A History of Us, Siddhartha Art Gallery
2016 Mitini, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, NYC, NY
2014 Displacement, Third Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Postcards to North Brooklyn, Arts @ Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
2012 12th Street Literary Journal, NY, NY
2011 Loveable, Huggable, Gallery Hanahou, Soho, NYC
2010 Palimpsest, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY
Awards
2018 Vitality Arts Grant, Sprat Classes at Neon Museum
2017 Fulbright Creative Arts Research Grant, Nepal
2017 Outside Agency Grant, Las Vegas, NV
2016 Outside Agency Grant, Las Vegas, NV
2015 MAP Fund Finalist, NY, NY
2014 Nevada Humanities Grant, Las Vegas, NV
2014 Caesars Foundation Grant
2014 Isabella Geriatric Center, Board Member, NY, NY
2013 Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Winner, St. Louis, MO
2012 Parsons Student Senate Grant, NY, NY
2012 The Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Eugene Lang
2008 Eugene Lang College Academic Achievement Award, NY, NY
2008 Parsons School of Design Dean’s Award, NY, NY
Press
2017, Irina Giri, The Person in a Woman, Kathmandu Post
2017, Embodiment of Mother, The Himalayan Times
2017, Telling the Dancers from the Dance, Kathmandu Post
2017, Zeenat Nagree, Making Place: A Report on the First Kathmandu Triennale, Biennal Foundation
2016, NYTimes, Fraying at the Edges, Cover Story, NYC, NY
2014, Las Vegas Sun, Arts, John Katsilometes, ‘Henri’ Plays a Powerful Melody at the Smith Center
2014, Las Vegas Weekly, Jacob Coakley, The Alzheimer’s Focused ‘Henri’ Makes for a Challenging – and Rewarding – Experience
2014, Channel 8 News Now, Discussion about ‘Henri’ Performance at Smith Center for Performing Arts, Arts Review, October 20th
2014, Vegas Magazine, Making Memories, Seth Olenik
2013, New York Times, Theater Neil Genzlinger, A Long Day’s Journey Toward Infinite Night
2013, Hyperallergic, Arts, Allison Meier, Can Theatre Help us to Better Understand the Elderly?
Residencies
2018 Safehouse Artist Residency, Cellula, SF
2017 Lasaana Residency, Kathmandu, Nepal
2017 Patan Museum, KCAC Artist Residency, Patan, Nepal
2016-18 Anna Halprin Performance Lab, Kentfield, CA
2015 Art Farm, Nebraska
2014 North American Cultural Laboratory, NY, NY
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012 Arts @ Renaissance residency, Brooklyn, NY
Teaching Artist
2014 - 2018 | Sprat Classes, inter-generational workshops
2015 - 2018 | Anna Halprin Performance Lab, inter-generational ensemble & workshops
2016 - 2017 | AAMAA, director of multi-generational Nepali ensemble
2016 | Nritya Aagan: Workshop Series
2014 - 2015 | Age Song, art teacher at various campuses and dementia units
2014 - 2015 | Vintage Coventry, art teacher for elders
2012-2014 | Isabella Geriatric Center, Dementia Unit, music and expressive arts therapist
2014 | Henri, director of multi-generational ensemble
Panels + Symposiums
2017, Post-Modern Dance in Nepal, Fulbright South & Central Asia Conference in Kolkata, India
2017, Ephemerality in Art, Kathmandu Triennale, Symposium Series
2017, Women Creating Collectively, Kathmandu Triennale, Symposium Series
2017, Ma: A History of Us: Creating Artwork with Multi-Generational Nepali Women, U.S. Embassy, Nepal
2015, Alive Inside: Music Therapy for Persons with Alzheimer's, University Nevada, Reno
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY - 2013
Bachelor of Arts, Eugene Lang College, New York, NY - 2013