Priya Srinivasan
is a performance studies scholar and dancer who has lived and performed in India, Australia, the US, China and the Netherlands. Her scholarly and artistic work uses critical feminist performance and ethnography to explore the connections between labor, migration, history and dance. Srinivasan’s book Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor seeks to understand dance as labor, and dancers not just as aesthetic bodies, but as transnational migrant workers and wage earners who negotiate citizenship and gender. She seeks to bring theory together with practice and continues to work as an experimental dance/theatre choreographer, who uses Indian performance practices to understand the effects of migration, history and power on gendered bodies.