About
Sumedha Bhattacharyya
ICCR-empanelled Kathak dancer
An interdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, researcher, dance filmmaker and educator, working in the in-between: performance and technology, body and camera, tradition and rebellion, making and studying.
[ Longer biography in Sumedha's own words ]
- Doctoral
- PhD in progress, Ethnomusicology — University of Music and Performing Arts Graz · Moving and Dancing Nostalgia, 2027
- Master's
- Choreomundus MA, Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage — Erasmus Mundus scholarship; Norway, France, Hungary, UK
- Funding
- AHRC grant awardee and project lead (India), Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer residency, University of London — Water Nodes
- Teaching
- Assistant Professor, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities — Screendance and interdisciplinary seminar courses
Research areas
Teaching
I teach dance as more than technique — as a way to listen, reflect, remember, question, and understand ourselves and the worlds we move through.
- University of Utah2025Visiting faculty · School of Dance and School of Film and New Media
- Ashoka University2024Part-time visiting faculty · workshop with Young India Fellows
- Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities2019–presentAssistant Professor · Dance, Vision and Movement
- Barnard College, Columbia University2023–2025Guest lecturer · Nation and Nationhood in Dance and Film
- Sangeet Natak Akademi, Natya Ballet Festival2022Workshop leader
Founder · 2020 onward
Duet with Camera
A pedagogy spanning performance, practice and documentation.
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