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Awards and Nominations

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Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey Council on the Arts (2024)

 

Dance/USA National Fellowship (2022-23)

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Artist Fellowship: Cambridge Arts Council (2013)

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Scholarship: Sahitya Kala Parishad, Government of India scholarship for Indian classical dance and music (1999)

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Award: Gender Hero of Boston 2009, The Theatre Offensive, Cambridge MA (2009)

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Award: Excellence in Arts for Social Cause, Khush D.C. (South Asian LGBT Organization,Washington D.C.) (2008)

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Upasana Samman: Upasana Odissi Academy, Wilmington, MA (2010)

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Select performance venues

 

The Asia Society (NYC)

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Alvin Ailey (NYC)

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Lincoln Center: Bruno Walter and Jazz at the Lincoln Center (NYC)

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New York Public Library (NYC)

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Harbourfront Centre: CanAsian International Dance Festival (Toronto)

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Lincoln Theatre (Washington D.C.)

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Queens Museum, Queens, New York

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PA'I Foundation, Honolulu (Hawai'i)

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Syracuse University (NY)

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)

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The Boston Center for the Arts

Wellesley College (MA)

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Emerson College (Boston)

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Boston University

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Massachusetts College of Art (Boston)

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Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

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Worcester Art Museum (MA)

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Tufts University (MA)

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Harvard University (MA)

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Wesleyan University (CT)

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The New School (NYC)

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The Boston Center for the Arts

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Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)

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Peabody Essex Museum (MA)

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The University of Wyoming (Laramie)

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The University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth)

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Holy Cross College (MA)

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Lectures and Residencies

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University of Hawai'i 2023

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Tau Dance Theater Residency 2023

 

University of California, Berkeley, California 2019

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Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 2019

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Drexel University, Philadelphia 2019

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California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco 2019

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William Patterson University, New Jersey 2019

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Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts 2011

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Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2015 & 2016

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Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York 2009

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University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 2008

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Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts 2007

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The New School, New York, New York 2007

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Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 2005

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Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 2004

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University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 2001

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