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A brown-skinned dancer, Bhumi B Patel, with long black hair in a black v-neck shirt, looks directly at the camera with a wide smile and slightly squinted eyes.
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| (photo: Robbie Sweeney) |
A single brown-skinned dancer, Bhumi B Patel, is surrounded by a semi-circle of onlookers in chairs in a dance studio with a gray marley floor and brown beams across a white ceiling. Sunlight streams in from the windows while the dancer is crouched on the ground in all black, with both hands flat on the floor in front of her.
Listen to Bhumi B Patel: This world needs queerness on my Body and Soul podcast here.
Bhumi B Patel directs pateldanceworks and is a queer, desi, home-seeker, science fiction choreographer, movement artist, and writer. She has presented her choreography in the Bay Area, Manoa (Hawai’i), Los Angeles, New York, and Columbus (Ohio). Bhumi was a 2022-2023 Dance/USA Fellow and a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree. She has presented at Dance Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, National Women’s Studies Association, and Asia Pacific Dance Festival, and has published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Contact Quarterly, and InDance. Her research on queer decoloniality and improvisation intersects with her performance-making as a way of tracing the deep connections of past, present, future to build communities of nourishment and care. pateldanceworks.org
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