Portfolio

Publications, Performances, and Projects

Our work focuses on choreography, research, and workshops to encourage authentic diversity in medical humanities.

2022

Article by Shreya Srivastava in Closler, 2022

Anatomy of the Araimandi, Publication in Hektoen International, Journal of Medical Humanities by Shreya Srivastava, Research Fellow

PAMA 4th annual conference 2022 and Jacalyn Duffy Health and Humanities Conference 2022: Shreya Srivastava’s research and choreographies

Curated the Reimagining Medicine Festival @ University of Kentucky Medical School, with Shreya Srivastava and Isha Parupudi selected to participate.

MADC Collective Thread 2022: Rhoda Moise and Suwodi Dutta Bordoloi/Aseemkala Initiative

The Junction Dance Festival 2022: Leila Mire/Aseemkala

Geisel Medicine MLK Day Festival: Leila Mire, Isha Parupudi, Rhoda Moise, Sophia Salingaros

South Asian Medical Student Association (SAMSA): Workshop on Anti-Bias Awareness Through Dance

2021

These legs must dance Podcast: Shilpa Darivemula

Oral presentation at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021, “Narrative Dance Medicine: Improving Learner Awareness of Cultural Communication”, Shreya Srivastava, Virali Shah, Kritika Amanjee, Shilpa Darivemula, Hyacinth Mason.

International Human Rights and Arts Festival, 2021

Academic Medicine Podcast: Pregnancy and Cultural Arts

Academic Medicine Article: Pregnancy and Cultural Arts

American Medical Women’s Association Vivian Shih Scholar Award

Curated Race.Medicine.OBGYN. Project

Article Published: The White Coat Public Art Project: Using the White Coat as a Canvas for Reflection for Women in Medicine, Alice Stella, Research Fellow

Consortium of the Universities of Global Health (CUGH) Virtual Conference: Shilpa Darivemula, Oral Panel Speaker, “The Elephant in the Classroom: Colonialism and Neocolonialism as Key Social Determinant of Global Health Disparities”, SDH14. CUGH 2021, Review of our session by R4HC-MENA

Health Humanities Conference, PennState, 2021, Research Fellow Lindsay Winters, oral presentation, “Embodiment and Equity in Online Dance Spaces: Experiences from Female Dancers of Color”, 2021 – Penn State College of Medicine | Health Humanities Consortium

Stay Home Film Festival, Leila Mire Choreography Premiere, April 2021

Article Published on Balagalamukhi’s Words- Rehumanizing Clinical Language Through Classical Indian Dance | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association (ama-assn.org)

‎Social Medicine On Air: 18 | Dance, Healing, Justice | Shilpa Darivemula on Apple Podcasts

Article Published: Dancing doctors: exploring the potential of cultural dance education to improve cultural competency and clinical communication – ScienceDirect by Shilpa, Rohini, and Sriya

Tripura Sundari’s Birth: Accepted to Teaching and Learning Moments in Academic Medicine by Krithika, Virali, and Shilpa , coming soon!

Health Humanities-From the Trenches: Book chapter on the Aseemkala Concept written by Moondil, Ruta, Lindsay, and Shilpa , coming soon!

Workshop with Healing/Arts at University of Buffalo: Addressing Racism and Bias in Medicine Through Traditional Dance, Transcript here, Video of Workshop

Public Art Workshop Addressing Gender Inequity in Medicine with To Be Human Group at Kasturba Medical College of Manipal

International Human Rights and Arts Festival, 2021, Performance

Curated the Reimagining Medicine Festival at Dartmouth Medical School, 2021, Leila, Maymunah, Rubab, and Isha performed!

2020

Kali Narrative: Creativity in Crisis | Shilpa Darivemula and Tanvi Gandhi — Intima (theintima.org)

A Reflection on the Intersection of Dance and Surgery | Shilpa Darivemula and Roshni Prakash — Intima (theintima.org)

Curated American Medical Women’s Association Dance and Medicine Task Force, Shilpa Darivemula, Co-Chair

Aseemkala Initiative Creating a Platform for Dance Based Narrative Medicine, Poster and Film Presentation, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Arts and Medicine Sympsium, Lebanon, New Hampshire

 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD), Indigenous Approaches to the Sustainable Development Goals, “Addressing Cultural Competency in Physician-Patient Communication through Traditional Dance: A Novel Model”, Oral Presentation

The Examined Life Conference, “Using Traditional Dance to Narrate Stories of Women in Medicine”, Oral Presentation

Bhairavi’s Anger — Intima (theintima.org)

Podcast Publication: #29 Doctors Who Create by Doctors Who Create (soundcloud.com), featuring Virali Shah, CORE Fellow

Exploring Dance for Medical Storytelling and Healthcare Justice, Oral Presentation and Workshop, 2020, Doctors Who Create Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Postponed due to COVID-19

Addressing the Provider Biases and User Agency in Utilizing Women’s Health Programming through Traditional Dance, 2020, Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation at the University of South Florida College of the Arts and Performing Arts Medicine Association conference, Cancelled due to COVID-19

Addressing Intimate Partner Violence: The Need for Culturally Competent Solutions » in-House, the online peer-reviewed publication for residents & fellows (in-housestaff.org)

Addressing OB/GYN Care Access for Refugee Women Using Traditional Dance Exchanges | Medical Humanities (bmj.com)

Performing Shared Decision Making: Using Traditional Indian Dance Choreography to Understand ICU Patient-Provider Communication, 2020, Poster Presentation at the Midwest Medical Humanities Conference, Iowa

Refugee Women’s Traditional Dance and Arts Exchange to Improve Mental Health: A Pilot Study, Poster Presentation, PEGASUS Conference, Toronto, Canada- Cancelled due to COVID-19

Sati’s Surgery: An Exploration of a Surgeon’s Vulnerability Through Kuchipudi Dance – Association for Medical Humanities (amh.ac.uk)

2019

Mahavidyas in Medicine Performance and Choreography Workshop, 2019, International Human Rights and Arts Festival, Wild Project. 

Workshop on Telling Stories and Moving to Music for People of All Abilities, 2019,  Inpatient Care, Johns Hopkins Kennedy Krieger Institute

Performing Shared Decision Making: Using Traditional Indian Dance Choreography to Understand ICU Patient-Provider Communication, 2019, Poster Presentation at the 10th Internal Shared Decision Making Conference, Quebec, Canada

Performing Shared Decision Making: Using Traditional Indian Dance Choreography to Understand ICU Patient-Provider Communication, 2019, Poster Presentation at the Performing Arts Medical Association, CA

The Aseemkala Initiative, 2019, Oral Presentation at Medical Women’s International Association, Centennial Congress, New York

Publication-An Exploration of a Surgeon’s Vulnerability Through Kuchipudi Dance, 2019, Op-Med, Voices from the Doximity Network

2018

Publication-An Exploration of a Surgeon’s Vulnerability Through Kuchipudi Dance, 2018, Association of Women Surgeons Blog

2018 Shobha Krishnan Award Recipient

Publication-Perspective on Traditional and Western Models of Health Literacy on Cervical Cancer Prevention for Shipibo Women, 2018, NYSAFP Family Doctor Journal.

Health literacy of HPV and HTLV Infection Pathophysiologies in Shipibo-Konibo women: A traditional Arts-based pilot study, 2018, Poster Presentation at the American Public Health Association National Conference (APHA), San Diego, CA

The Aseemkala Traditional Dance Public Health Model, 2018, Oral Presentation Lecture at the American Public Health Association National Conference (APHA), San Diego, CA

Publication-Human of Medicine: Shilpa, 2018, The Human Side of Medicine Blog.

Mahavidyas in Medicine, 2018, International Human Rights and Arts Festival at the Wild Project, New York

Series of Mahavidyas in Medicine Filmography Showing, 2018, ArtWorks Festival at the HOP Garage, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Bagalamukhi’s Words, 2018, Gender Justice & the Arts- An Asian American Showcase hosted by SAKHI for South Asian Women at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York

Health and Illness from Eastern and Western Perspectives featuring the Mahavidyas in Medicine Dance Project, 2018, Opera Theater, New York

Chinnamasta’s DNR Order, 2018, Collective Thread Show, ModArts Dance Collective at Dixon Place, New York, New York

The Aseemkala Method Workshop, 2018, Resistance Knows No Borders Conference at SUNY Albany and Guest Lecture on Dance for Social Justice at Union College, Schenecady NY

ASTMH – Ben Kean Fellowship- Shilpa Darivemula

2017

Women’s Traditional Dance and Arts Exchange to Improve Mental Health, 2017, Poster Presentation, North American Refugee Health Conference, Canada

Of Medicine and Mudras: Using Traditional Dance as a Novel Model for Approaching Women’s Health, 2017, Poster Presentation, North American Refugee Health Conference, Canada

White Coat, 2017, Southern Vermont Dance Festival, Brattleboro

Bagalamukhi’s Words, 2017, Fertile Ground Dance Showcase, Long Island City, New York

Kamala’s Anxiety, 2017, InHale Dance Series at KYL/D Dance, Philadelphia

Sati’s Surgery, 2017, International Humans Rights and Arts Festival, Dixon Place, New York, New York.

White Coat, 2017, Artist-in-Residence Performance at the 102nd National American Medical Women’s Association in San Francisco

Video Display of Mahavidyas in Medicine Project at ArtWallahLA Festival, 2017, Los Angeles

History & Physical Dance Series #1: On Cervical Cancer, with the Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer2017

2016

Transplanted Tradition: Refugee Women’s Dance Program, Dance Flurry Grant and RISSE, Albany, NY. 2016

Artist in Residence – American Medical Women’s Association (amwa-doc.org– 2016 Shilpa Darivemula

2015

Mardhini: Dance on Gender Violence, Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Post-2015 Agenda, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 2015

Maya: Dance on Feminine Divine, International Dance Festival of Fes, Morocco, 2015

‘DC Reconnect-Healthy Communities, Healthy Minds’ Street Arts Show, Washington, D.C.Promethean Community, 2015

2013-2014

La Prensa Austral: Darán a conocer las similitudes entre medicina de la India y la mapuche

Waiting Room Street Performance, Kampala,  2014

Encounters, Lima, 2013

Gnaoua Girl’s Empower Through Arts Program and Performance, Morocco, 2014

Anamika: Dance Collaboration on Human Trafficking, 2013, Union College Emerson Theater, Schenectady

Making Our Mark: Highlight in the Women of Union Program- Shilpa Darivemula ’13 | Union College

Chalking up public art in words (timesunion.com)