Afreen Sen Chatterji (she/her/hers) is a Doctoral Candidate with the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She completed her Bachelor’s in English Literature from Delhi University, India (2014-17), followed by a Master’s in Theatre and Performance Studies at King’s College London, United Kingdom (2017-18). 

Previously a theatre practitioner and ballet teacher, Afreen’s interest in realms of performance narratives as molded by structures of power have brought her to Santa Barbara from New Delhi, India. She investigates material transactions that have shaped the hierarchical categorization of Indian dance into the binaries of classical and folk, as well as excavating the dances of those that break these constructed binaries, celebrating the hybridity of the national and international possibilities of the fluid human body.