Ocean of Song & Dance Conference

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 Public Life; the Modern Tibetan Studies Program; the C.V. Starr East Asian Library; and Columbia University Libraries. The event brought together scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore the shifting currents of song, dance, ritual, and theatre across the Tibetan and Himalayan worlds. Featuring a keynote…

Dance Text Archive

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 gathered these texts on a spreadsheet with the texts’ title, author, and approximate date. Because this archive is likely to change over time as new texts are discovered and more information is gathered about existing texts, the spreadsheet is periodically updated.