S3 Ep 6 - Bhumi Patel - Queer, desi Artist/Activist, Dance scholar, & Director of pateldanceworks

Bhumi B Patel @bhumithelion is a queer, desi artist/activist, dance scholar, and director of pateldanceworks @pateldanceworks (she/they). In its purest form, Bhumi's performance work is a love letter to her ancestors, and she pursues liberation through dancing, choreographing, curating, educating, and writing/scholarship. Bhumi aims to support marginalized and oppressed voices through performance and movement education. She earned her MA in American Dance Studies from Florida State University and her MFA in Dance from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student at the Ohio State University. She is also a member of Dancing Around Race, and engages with curatorial practices for both performances and written publications. Making art is her way of tracing the deeply woven connections in which we live–past, present, future–as a way to build communities of nourishment and care.