Author: Chitra Vairavan

Chitra Vairavan is a contemporary dancer/choreographer and performance artist of Tamil/South Indian-American descent. She was born and raised in the north side of Milwaukee, WI, and community-grown as an artist and cultural activist in the Twin Cities on occupied Dakota land. Vairavan immerses herself in both Tamil culture and progressive brown politics in the U.S. Her embodied practice and experimental process is rooted in deep listening, spatial observation, freedoms, poetry, vulnerability and ancestral memory. Her dance and artistic work have been featured throughout the Twin Cities since 2004. Vairavan’s focus is now on a BIPOC-centered creative liberation practice, in the form of artistic collectives, workshops and embodied offerings. www.chitravairavan.com