Sripadma Ganapathi: Creating a warm-up for Bharatanatyam dancers
from The Roey Grads Podcast Hosted by Roehampton Graduate School Students
In this episode, Will sits down with Sripadma Ganapathi, a third-year Dance PhD student of Roehampton's School of Arts. A dancer, and teacher, of Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance form, Sripadma shares details of her interdisciplinary research, which aims to create a dance-based warm-up routine for Bharatanatyam dancers to help reduce the form's high injury rates. Her multidisciplinary mixed-method approach involves ethnographic sourcing movements from an ancient Hindu text, the Nāṭya Shāstra, and validating their effectiveness using motion capture technology, in collaboration with the School of Life Sciences. We chat about the personal and academic journey to her doctorates, joys and pains, support and recommendations Mentioned: PhD Help on Instagram Chapters 00:08 Introduction 00:39 Sripadma's research 01:52 Collecting the data 03:05 Sripadma's journey to her PhD 05:22 Life beyond the PhD 06:27 Her favourite parts of the PhD 08:54 The most difficult parts 10:20 The support she got 11:23 The support she wish she got 12:30 Recommendations 13:15 Tips for health and wellbeing 14:18 Final words 15:18 Studio recap The Roey Grad Podcast is a presentation of the University of Roehampton’s Graduate School. Our theme music is by DiamondTunes Our hosts are two PhDs of Roehampton, Charles Miller and Will Berard, who also edits and mixes the podcast. It was produced by Aaliyah Hassan. Comments, questions, want to appear on the show? Get in touch at [email protected]
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