Ankita

Photo: Bee Lively Photography

Ankita is an experimental performance artist and writer invested in storytelling where content dictates genre and betrays expectation. They hold degrees in Dance and Anthropology and are regularly presenting performance and film work (inter)nationally. They have also published short stories on the intersection of race & outdoor recreation in the book Blood, Sweat, Tears and academic work on primates and wildlife rehabilitation. Throughout different mediums, Ankita's work unpacks systems and symptoms of power from a queer, punk solidarity-based lens that rehearses freedom in body and mind. In aesthetic, their work is grungy, confrontational, and cheeky with physical practices rooted in Contemporary dance, Dance-Theater, and forms from both the South Asian and the African diaspora.

Ankita holds degrees in Dance and Anthropology and currently lives in New York. They have had live work performed throughout the US, including at: Denver Art Museum, Abrons Art Center, Dixon Place, The Tank, BASE, JACK, Ormao, Brockus Dance Project, and University Settlement. They have received funding and support from Performance Project, GALLIM, NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council, Base Experimental Arts + Space, The Barn, ECS, LEIMAY, Crown-Goodman, and more. In their spare time, they have managed several award-winning dance-theater companies, including Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, which rounds out their knowledge and understanding of the arts industry.