Carly Bates, Raji Ganesan and Allyson Yoder, "Negotiations"

Using body, voice and narrative, Carly Bates, Allyson Yoder and Raji Ganesan wrestle with questions of identity, heritage and belonging. With the audience, they resist, remember and reconstruct what it means to occupy their bodies. 

Raji Ganesan is classical Indian dancer, burgeoning performance artist and culture worker, with an academic background in arts, media and engineering. Outside of performing, she spends her time providing structural support for community arts organizations through her work with ASU's Performance in the Borderlands, Border/Arte and nueBOX. 

Allyson Joy Yoder is a community-centered dance artist from Tucson, Arizona, now based in the Valley. As a performer, choreographer, facilitator and teacher, Yoder works to ignite community dialogue and meaningful engagement. Her most current project is a solo performance, Dress in Something Plain and Dark, that investigates her relationship to the Mennonite church through the lenses of gender, identity and spirituality.  

Carly Bates is an emerging artist from Phoenix, Arizona. With a background as a pianist, she is active in the Arizona arts community as a creative collaborator with musicians, movers, poets, actors and storytellers. Having recently graduated from ASU with B.A. in Music, Carly is currently working with a local playback theatre company called Essential Theater.

This piece is presented in conjunction with "Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta," an exhibition on view at the ASU Art Museum Sept. 24–Dec. 31.

Image credit: Courtesy of Raji Ganesan.