Cynthia Ling Lee creates performance and scholarship that instigate postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of Asian diasporic performance.  Trained in US postmodern dance and North Indian classical kathak, Cynthia’s interdisciplinary performance work has been presented at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York), East West Players (Los Angeles), IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance (New Delhi) and Chandra-Mandapa: Spaces (Chennai).   Cynthia is a member of the Post Natyam Collective, a transnational web-based coalition of dance artists working at the intersection of art-making, activism, and theory, and was a long-time board member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters.  www.cynthialinglee.com

ARI Supported Project: What is the sound of the chronically ill dancing body? In this project, choreographer and COVID-19 long-hauler Cynthia Ling Lee translates dance, often understood as a visual and kinesthetic medium, into sound. After a year in which the pandemic has shut down live performance and flattened dance through screens, “sounding the body” seeks to elicit visceral responses in listeners through the intimate sonic traces of the dancing body. We hear the embodied sounds of healing and ailing, listening to movements of a professional dancer’s body that has been transformed by chronic long-hauler symptoms: breath, heartbeat, gesture, weight, textures of touch.

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