Choreographer, Director, Filmmaker, Poet, Educator, and Performance Studies Scholar

The BRM Project asks: What might it mean to remember the Mountain with our moving bodies, with our thinking, with our sensing, and with our imaginings? What might it mean for our communities and for the well-being of the Earth in this place? As we move toward the Mountain, the Mountain also approaches us, connecting us through pathways of resonance and storytelling to the stories of mountains across India and the US.

As a key part of the BRM Project 2023, a research residency program took place in collaboration with the revered Guru Kalamanadalam Rama Chakyar. Under his expert guidance, Dr. Kanta Ann Kochhar-Lindgren's immersion in Kutiyattam, a transformative journey, has focused on the significance of stories about mountains within this classical performance form. At the pinnacle of her training, Dr. Kanta plans to perform “Govardhanodharanam” in the near future.

Towards a Different Earth (TDE), a collaboration on an Accessible Eco-Theatres Arts Residency, will connect college youth, Deaf/Hard-of-hearing and Blind/VI communities, service providers for Indian Sign Language (ISL) and Audio Description, and theatre practitioners in Thrissur, India, with experts in Accessible Theatres.

At soundpocket, as we learn to listen and listen to learn, we also experience togetherness as impermanent, a quality that sharpens rather than dampens our gratitude for artists who strive to keep differences alive. May learning together be the rippling that moves us and moves through us.

South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres investigates translocal intimacies in relation to 21st century transnational South Asian disability theatres in order to lay out new possibilities for accessible theatres.