Between Bollywood and bharatanatyam
Sangita Shresthova reflects on a personal journey of dance that took her from bharatanatyam to the freer, all-encompassing, world of Bollywood.
24 February 2010
Author: Sangita Shresthova
Sangita Shresthova is currently the Research Director of the Media Activism and Participatory Politics Project (MAPP) at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. She is a dancer and media artist who holds a PhD from the Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA. She earned an MSc degree from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program where she focused on Hindi film dance.