A femme with cinnamon brown skin closing her eyes and crossing her hands over her chest. Her dark hair is tied back with curls falling out, she is wearing two large rings on each hand, and is wearing a hunter green Sanskrit designed shirt against a grey background.

Brinda Guha

(BRIN-duh GOO-ha)

She/Her

Artist, Administrator, Producer

Location:New JerseyNew YorkNYC

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Website: http://www.brindaguha.com

Biography

Brinda Guha identifies as a non-disabled, caste-privileged, cisgender and queer South-Asian American, and is a Bessie-nominated Kathak dancer for over 20 years. During training and performing for years in the Kathak (Malabika Guha) & Manipuri (Kalavati+ Bimbavati Devi) dance disciplines, as well as Flamenco (Carmen de las Cuevas; Dionisia Garcia) and Contemporary Fusion vocabularies, she co-founded Kalamandir Dance Company in 2010. She’s choreographed for many national stages and self-produced original feature-length dance productions which earned her artist residencies at Dixon Place (2018) and Dancewave (2019) to continue to develop work. Now, she is represented by CESD Talent Agency and is pursuing artistic direction, performance and arts education. She trains in Kathak, Manipuri and Contemporary. Her dream of having art meet activism was realized when she created WISE FRUIT NYC, a seasonal live arts installment (est 2017) dedicated to the feminine divine and honoring select women-led organizations, and she is the lead researcher and curator of NCCAkron’s How People Move People Podcast, Season 4. For her day job, she works as the Senior Producing Coordinator for dance service org based in the values of JEI: Dance/NYC.

Professional Experience

Senior Producing Coordinator, Dance/NYC, 2019-Present, New York, NY

Co-Founder & Principal Dancer, Soles of Duende, 2017-Present, New York, NY

Curator, Wise Fruit NYC, 2017-Present, New York, NY

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Professional Areas of Expertise

AdministrationChoreographyCurationEducation (teaching artistry)Higher educationK-12Professional trainingIndependent producing and/or presentingMusic/accompanimentOperationsPerformancePresentingProducingService organizationStage management and productionStudio/training facility

Skills

ActingCompany managementEmail marketingEvent planningScheduling and administrationSocial media marketingStrategic planningVideo editing

Dance Styles / Movement Techniques

Classical IndianContemporaryFlamencoInterdisciplinary

Media

A femme with cinnamon brown skin under warm stage lights wearing black leggings, ghungroos ankle bells, a pink Kathak dress and gold ornamentation, looking scared and worried and crumpled into a ball looking over her right side in the middle of a live moment.

A femme with cinnamon brown skin under pink light, dark hair down, dark lipstick, jewelry, and an olive and gold kurta live dancing on stage with her right hand out and her looking out into the crowd. A masculine person in a white shirt is behind her on hand drums.

A femme with cinnamon brown skin, dark hair down, triangle orange earrings, wearing a burnt orange dress and dark lipstick, is smiling at the camera against a decorative yellow mirror scarf.

A femme with cinnamon brown skin, dark hair down, large teal earrings, and black and white sketched Buddha shirt is posing looking towards the natural light of the window in a white room. Her right arm is out horizontally and her left arm is in a pose over head.

Videos entail some of Brinda Guha’s signature Contemporary Indian dance work, Brinda Guha’s community organizing and collaborative work, and Brinda Guha’s involvement in percussive trio, Soles of Duende.