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

2014, Las Vegas Weekly, Playwright Ryan Reid brings the realities of Alzheimer's to center stage, Kristen Peterson

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?

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

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY - 2013

Bachelor of Arts, Eugene Lang College, New York, NY - 2013

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