Ganavya

Tamil Nadu-Raised And New York-Born Critically Acclaimed Vocalist Ganavya Lives Learns And Loves Fluidly From The Nexus Of Many Frameworks And Understandings. Hers Is A Deeply Profound And Rooted Voice. A Multidisciplinary Creator She Is A Soundsmith And Wordsmith. Trained As An Improviser Scholar Dancer And Multi-Instrumentalist She Maintains An Inner Library Of “spi/ritual” Blueprints Offered To Her By An Intergenerational Constellation Of Collaborators Continuously Anchoring Her Practice In Pasts Presents And Futures. Much Of Her Childhood Was On The Pilgrimage Trail Learning The Storytelling Art Form Of Harikathā And Singing Poetry That Critiques Hierarchal Social Structures. She Is A Co-Founder Of The Non-Hierarchical We Have Voice Collective. Hers Is A Life Of Nonlinearity And Singularity. Despite Not Not Being Schooled Traditionally As A Child She Carries Degrees In Theatre Broward Community College And Psychology F.I.U. With Graduate Degrees In Contemporary Performance Berklee College Of Music Ethnomusicology UCLA And Creative Practice And Critical Inquiry Harvard . Both As An Educator And Student She “wishes To Study And Bring Liberative Techniques Into This World… Study Certain Dyads What Empowers Who Is Disempowered What Heals Who Is Ailing— And Wishes To Wed The Two.” read less