I am a descendant of refugees from the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. My interests are always informed by this knowledge, and so are my reasons for making dance. Broadly, I unravel and negotiate the politics of migration. I question how my body can hold trauma it has never experienced, or remember histories it can never access. The intersections of culture, memory, and grief are murky, and my work likes to live in the discomfort of unpacking them. There is a lot of stillness, and silence, and voice. Sometimes this feels inescapably heavy, so there may be an attempt at humor, which often leaves the audience divided.

I am a current MFA student in Choreographic Inquiry at UCLA, and I also hold a BA in dance, though sometimes I think the BA holds me.