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# Ranjana Dave

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## Posts

- [Extended Stage Announcements](https://ranjanadave.com/250-2/) - Dear reader, When I was three, I applied to enrol at a local kindergarten. I was shown wooden models of fruits and vegetables and asked to name them. I knew that a tomato was a tomato, but in an act of perverse complexity (or self-sabotage), I confidently declared that the tomato was a brinjal (eggplant),
- [Blog Post Title](https://ranjanadave.com/blog-post-title/) - What goes into a blog post? Helpful, industry-specific content that: 1) gives readers a useful takeaway, and 2) shows you’re an industry expert. Use your company’s blog posts to opine on current industry topics, humanize your company, and show how your products and services can help people.

## Pages

- [](https://ranjanadave.com/)
- [Extended Stage Announcements](https://ranjanadave.com/extended-stage-announcements/) - This is ongoing research within the scope of Ranjana Dave's Art Writers' Award 2022 project. She looks at the relationship between language and the body in performance. To speak of language is to speak of identity: of how we belong to specific times, places, communities, or ideas. Translation as a site and process of meaning-making
- [writing](https://ranjanadave.com/writing/) - List in progress. Writing is a history of my body, and the places it has inhabited. It is tempting to want to curate this very carefully, but as the internet increasingly proves itself ephemeral, what does it mean to have all my writing catalogued in one place. Here is writing done in bathrooms, behind water
- [Talks](https://ranjanadave.com/talks/) - Moderator's note | TAKE on Art Curatorial Symposium, 2023 Conversation | Forests of Urban Contradictions | Shreyank Khemalapure in conversation with Ranjana Dave and Ashok Sukumaran | School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) Annual Symposium 2022 Panel Discussion | Sari: From Research to Storytelling | Conversation with Daksha Sheth and Rta Kapur Chishti, moderated by
- [Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance](https://ranjanadave.com/improvised-futures-encountering-the-body-in-performance/) - In an atmosphere of growing authoritarianism, how can we draw attention to performance as a transaction of sensorial agency – the right to be seen, heard, recognized – the right to be palpable? Improvised Futures attempts to frame performance as doing, as fraught negotiations of agency and identity. As it considers the performative effect of a range
- [Teaching](https://ranjanadave.com/teaching/) - My interest in movement and writing coalesces in my pedagogic practice. My work has constantly explored what 'embodied practice' means, and what its shifting boundaries might be, arriving at this embodiment in various forms and spaces, most particularly, text. I work with children and adults to build learning environments that are enabling, non-hierarchical, and driven
- [about](https://ranjanadave.com/about/) - Ranjana Dave is an independent artist and writer. Her work spans performance practice, writing, curation, research and pedagogy. She was programmes director at Gati Dance Forum, where she initiated an annual journal, Indent. She co-edited Indent's most recent edition, Last-ing with Parvathi Ramanathan. She has worked on developing a curriculum for a master’s programme in
- [work](https://ranjanadave.com/work/)
- [Press](https://ranjanadave.com/press/) - Review of Improvised Futures | The Body and Soul Story | The Hindu, March 2022 Interview | To fill vital gaps in dance education, three educators address how a more critical practice could be achieved | Firstpost, March 2020 What Happens When A Pole Dancer and An Odissi Master Spend An Afternoon Crossing Forms |
- [2010](https://ranjanadave.com/2010-writing/) - In Step (2010)The HinduInterview with Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy Warp and WeftThe HinduInterview with Alarmel Valli
- [Contact](https://ranjanadave.com/contact/) - Write to me: ranjana.dave@gmail.com