Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies Awarded MAP Fund Grant

In 2022, the MAP Fund awarded Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies by Nadhi Thekkek, Roopa Mahadevan, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, and Shruti Abhishek $30,000, which includes $25,000 towards the proposed work and $5,000 in unrestricted funds. We celebrate and honor the multiplicity of their brilliant ideas and deep practices, which collectively move us toward a better world. 

Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies is a bharatanatyam and experimental movement production exploring the labor of South Asian women who immigrated to the US following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.