P. B. Vaishnavi, a research scholar from the Department of Dance at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH) presented a paper titled “Tracing the Dynamics of Movement: Insights from Indian Textual Sources” at the Doctoral Consortium of the Movement and Computing (MoCo24) Conference. The event was hosted by the Department of Media and Performance Studies at Utrecht University on May 30, 2024. She is working under the supervision of Prof. Anuradha J.
During the consortium, Vaishnavi was mentored by Prof. Sarah Whatley, (Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University). The paper received significant appreciation and constructive feedback from her. The conference featured a diverse array of dance scholars, academicians, computer science analysts, and technical experts. This interdisciplinary environment provided Vaishnavi with valuable insights into various perspectives and experiments happening between Technology and Movement, opening new areas of engagement that dance is into in the domain of AI.