https://www.shabarirao.com/work daily 1.0 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1574216813995-F6T11QXYM70U8HPDIAAY/Open%2Band%2Bshut%2B2.jpg Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1641359976974-ETNC0MMAKJBQETMPTTNC/IMG_3774.JPG Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1728978240360-MCUR867V8S6S7RFVWKA4/20231101_152727.jpg Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1728978527657-V251V4C1HPAQA1GPWGZ2/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2024-09-28%2Bat%2B5.41.02%2BPM.jpg Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/86a42150-c170-4421-9a3b-fefa9cf442b5/Europe+2025.png Areas of Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678423002152-KM96TB4J5FZEI41LFYWD/PXL_20220928_035709456.jpg Areas of Work - Dance Pedagogy, Attakkalari Dancers learn the fundamentals of pedagogy and what it means to teach dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678424214143-3YF99Z0QQG9BXV15BHMW/IMG-20221020-WA0003%281%29.jpg Areas of Work - Everyday Perform, RVU Investigating the continuum between every day performance (eg gender) and stylized performance with undergrad students https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678423013364-AQ7P6N9ZRGDYDTP9ET3P/PXL_20220309_120346394.jpg Areas of Work - Inside Information, Vienna Focusing attention and sharpening observation of sensation on the inside of the body. Using bodymapping to reflect upon sensation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678424467840-0U65Y9HXOMB7OQ50GO4I/IMG-20220715-WA0006.jpg Areas of Work - Interaction Design, UID Embodied introduction to Interaction Design for Design students https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/d8153091-6a17-42e8-9316-d602737fe477/Anatomy+of+Abstraction_IITGN_Mar2026_Final+Image.png Areas of Work - Make it stand out Poster presentation at the Curiosity Conference 2026, IIT Gandhinagar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/253edd93-4330-4863-a8ac-8d37113abaaf/Image+1.JPG Areas of Work Decolonizing Performance Pedagogy Performance Research, 25:8, 9-10, (2021) Teaching has been a context for me to untangle and interrogate these systems of power. The practices that I have developed in my teaching aim to disrupt, or at least disturb some of these long-established hierarchies, first by bringing them into focus and then playing around with them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/76c3e3aa-1344-41b1-b8a7-b20b08a1c812/Nothing+to+Show_ScreenShot.png Areas of Work Nothing to Show Journal of Embodied Research, 3(2), 2 (24:24), (2020) With social distancing, that range of environments is severely and suddenly restricted. What happens to my sense of self in these circumstances? How do I know who I am? What do I have to show the world and my self to confirm my sense of self? Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/9da0c31f-031e-42a4-aef9-b5934cfb7164/Still+Standing+2.png Areas of Work Still Standing 2 Indent: The Body and the Performative (2019) Still Standing 2 is an experimental film that investigates stillness. It was born out of a performance project (Still Standing 1), where I worked with 37 participants over 4 weeks, in an exploration of the embodied experience of stillness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/f93e54b6-c675-4361-b349-cd2c7d47b90d/Image+1.jpg Areas of Work BodyMine: An exploration of auto-ethnographic performance as research Focus on Education, Royal Academy of Dance (2019) BodyMine is an articulation of an auto-ethnographic investigation into my own practice as a dancer, my body and relationship to dance. My interest in auto-ethnographic research is that it allows for the self to be perceived as a cultural and social being that is the subject of reflexive practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1530336726183-YESUYGCQCGECQPUXI1G2/DSC_0374.JPG Areas of Work Positively Shameless, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/03081d7b-70c8-4824-9260-dc7577ff0f64/IMG-20210128-WA0006.jpg Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/10ef6228-fab7-4790-9a12-e09e792bb21b/DSC_0974.JPG Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/e9dd71f2-96da-41c6-a855-46d3becf66ac/found+in+trnasation.jpg Areas of Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415745241-XVMNX9Y782VNF936NLOF/tmp-1645694072013.jpg Areas of Work - Open Invitation (2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415836504-IKNBWOVCZD1A0A9WT7HF/IMG_8799.JPG Areas of Work - Open and Shut (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415711182-SFE4IELNHMTUIKUYFNJP/group.jpg Areas of Work - Head 2 Head (2018) Head2Head: The Big Fat Company plays with Hayavadana is a devised performance with an ensemble of plus sized actors. It uses the iconic Kannada play Hayavadana by Girish Karnad to raise questions about body, mind and identity and what it means to be a plus sized actor in today's world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415927838-MO1T6T45VOC4W85KSTV0/DSC_0687.JPG Areas of Work - Still Standing 1 (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415762989-70YB386AD4K3MK354S5C/Show2.jpg Areas of Work - BodyMine (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415895174-EW5GKHAD13YZ2AMYS7CV/DSC_0706.JPG Areas of Work - Positively Shameless (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415968384-K87T2ATIW6H8SBW5PUUZ/KC%23-option-1-seduction.jpg Areas of Work - Keep Calm and #ashtag (2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678416223919-KHM9OMFIH8L2IV3TN641/De+Sidere+7.jpg Areas of Work - DeSidere 7 (2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/1678415949345-704KA6N21D3IMJ5DRY47/ggdd.jpg Areas of Work - Good Girls Don't Dance (2013) https://www.shabarirao.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://www.shabarirao.com/blog/2026/3/16/europe-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/86a42150-c170-4421-9a3b-fefa9cf442b5/Europe+2025.png Blog - Europe 2025 Two weeks after I defended my doctoral thesis, I left for a month-long trip across Europe. 3 weeks, 4 countries, 7 events, including talks, workshops, and a performance, and many, many conversations with international colleagues and friends. This felt like a real celebration of all the hard work that went into the PhD, because I had the opportunity to share my work, ideas, and research with diverse, interdisciplinary audiences. I also got to re-explore the connections between my artistic practice and academic research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/475f9b13-28fd-4cae-af65-2d7f269f46e5/5R0A6721.jpg Blog - Europe 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b23a8585b409bdc5a0a27a8/de5b0502-27ce-4001-9ad1-c2e33134dac3/IMG-20251021-WA0013.jpg Blog - Europe 2025 I also had the opportunity to share my research with a diverse group of participants at the University of Rome. 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