In December 2025, I organized a two-day conference at Columbia University called Ocean of Song & Dance: Emerging Currents in Tibetan and Himalayan Performance Studies. The event was co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Arts & Sciences Graduate Council; the Institute for Religion, Culture, and…

As part of my doctoral research, I gathered an archive of Tibetan Buddhist dance texts (‘cham yig) from online repositories like the Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Nepalese-German Manuscript Project, and Sakya Research Center, along with texts given to me during my fieldwork. To aid in future studies of tantric dances and their texts, I have…