Hello! My name is Leia.
I am a writer, composer, and Odissi dance-learner from Singapore. Now a PhD student in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, my research forms a web between classicised Indian dance, theories of queerness and sexuality, and aesthetics under capitalism; in my artistic practice, I explore the ways life and its labours impress upon bodies. My writing has been published by Ethos Books and Oxford Public Philosophy, and I was recently awarded the Voices of Bhakti fellowship and Unrehearsed Artist Residency, both of which have allowed me the time, space, and energy to continue the artist-scholar dance!
If you care to, you will find threads of what has occupied me in the last 10 or so years on this website. I have been writing creatively for most of my life. Since going to University, the project of integrating my poetic and academic registers of writing have been my main vocation. If my writing interests you, I would be happy to research and write with or for you.
I am also a composer and a musician. I have composed concert music, as well as music for/with dance, film, theatre, and visual art, in collaborations which tend to be even more exciting than working in solitude. I have also been commissioned to create interdiscplinary work, and am increasingly branching out into video media.
Finally, I try to be a jack-of-some-trades musician, having played piano, harpsichord (Articulations with King’s College Music Society, 2019), percussion (The Prismatic Harpsichord with SOTA, 2019), and sung (The Experimental Man by Chowk Productions, 2019) in concerts and artistic projects.
Please enjoy the pieces on this site, and don’t hesitate to contact me at rachelleiadevadason@gmail.com if you’d like to use anything, collaborate with me or hire me.
I am a writer, composer, and Odissi dance-learner from Singapore. Now a PhD student in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, my research forms a web between classicised Indian dance, theories of queerness and sexuality, and aesthetics under capitalism; in my artistic practice, I explore the ways life and its labours impress upon bodies. My writing has been published by Ethos Books and Oxford Public Philosophy, and I was recently awarded the Voices of Bhakti fellowship and Unrehearsed Artist Residency, both of which have allowed me the time, space, and energy to continue the artist-scholar dance!
If you care to, you will find threads of what has occupied me in the last 10 or so years on this website. I have been writing creatively for most of my life. Since going to University, the project of integrating my poetic and academic registers of writing have been my main vocation. If my writing interests you, I would be happy to research and write with or for you.
I am also a composer and a musician. I have composed concert music, as well as music for/with dance, film, theatre, and visual art, in collaborations which tend to be even more exciting than working in solitude. I have also been commissioned to create interdiscplinary work, and am increasingly branching out into video media.
Finally, I try to be a jack-of-some-trades musician, having played piano, harpsichord (Articulations with King’s College Music Society, 2019), percussion (The Prismatic Harpsichord with SOTA, 2019), and sung (The Experimental Man by Chowk Productions, 2019) in concerts and artistic projects.
Please enjoy the pieces on this site, and don’t hesitate to contact me at rachelleiadevadason@gmail.com if you’d like to use anything, collaborate with me or hire me.