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Sandra Chatterjee is a choreographer, dancer, and scholar whose work explores the intersections of performance, dance, and the body with a focus on gender, postcolonial, and migration studies. She was initially trained in the classical Indian dance form Kuchipudi, completing her Rangapravesam (debut) under the guidance of Ranga Vivekanandan-Barth in Munich.…
Journey Timeline
1998
Bachelor of Arts in Dance (ethnology emphasis) — University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2001
Master of Arts in Dance — University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2005
PhD in Culture and Performance — University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2006
Co-initiator and co-organizer of ArtSensation, Munich
2009
Completed post-graduate program "Culture and Organisation" — University of Vienna and Institut für Kulturkonzepte
2011
Co-initiator and co-organizer of Integrier-Bar, Munich — Continued until 2013
2011
Premiered 'Tagore on Vinyl -Travelling with Thakur' in Munich — A contemporary dance production
2012
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Art, Music and Dance studies, University of Salzburg — For the FWF research project “Traversing the Contemporary (pl.)”
2016
Talk at Tanzkongress in Hannover — Presented "Traversing the Contemporary: Intertwined Practices of Contemporary Dance in Germany"
2017
Instructor on the Rutgers Arts Online Faculty — Continued until 2022
2018
Guest professor for Dance Studies at ZZT – Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz in Cologne — Wintersemester 2018/19
2019
Began investigating performance and smell — Projects include "smells of racism" and "SWEAT – Smells of Labour"
2020
Selected for FREISCHWIMMEN international exchange and production platform — For the period 2020-2022
2021
Co-initiator of CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions — An initiative dedicated to anti-discriminatory approaches to dance
2023
Part of the research team of the FWF-funded project Border Dancing across Time — At the University of Salzburg
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Awards & Honors
- Choreographic Award — Hawaii State Dance Council
- Cultural Preservation Award — Hawaii State Dance Council
Media Coverage
- A traveller rooted in her journey of dance
The New Indian Express
- Straddling two worlds
The Hindu
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