Pallabi Chakravorty’s research and artistic works bring disparate bodies of material into dialogue with each other. Her book “Bells of Change”, 2008 is the first critical study of India’s Kathak dance within the discourses of the modern and the classical tracing the arc of two centuries of Kathak from colonial nautch (of the tawaif and the baijis) to the global stage. Pallabi has also co-edited three books: Performing Ecstasy in 2009, Dance Matters, also in 2009, and Dance Matters Too in 2018, and has published dozens of journal papers and book chapters spread across disciplines of anthropology, dance studies, south Asian history, media studies, and feminist studies. Pallabi is the Stephen Lang Professor of Performing at Swarthmore College, where she has served as the head of Dance for the past seven years. She is the founder and artistic director of Courtyard Dancers, a Philadelphia-based non-profit South Asian arts organization.