In this session, Swati and Royona present their current research projects which share overlapping concerns around gender, race, and caste in theatre and performance studies.

Swati Arora is Lecturer in Performance and Global South Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Her work exists at the convergence of performance and visual culture, feminist theory, Black Studies, and dramaturgies of urban space in the global South. She is co-editor of Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place (2023), which brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches to explore disciplinary and epistemic border-crossings.

Royona Mitra (she/her) is Professor of Dance and Performance Cultures at Brunel University London and the author of Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism (Palgrave, 2015) and Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch(forthcoming with OUP, 2024). Her research examines systems of oppression in dance and performance cultures at the intersections of bodies, social power regimes, and choreography as resistance, and she contributes to the fields of diaspora and performance, South Asian dance and performance cultures, critical dance studies and performance studies.

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