Editorial Intern
Born and raised in Bangladesh, Tahmina Anwar Anika sees dance as a way to globalize contemporary ideas from across the world through its interdisciplinary nature. Initially being trained in Kathak (Indian Classical dance) from the age of three, she had her first solo Kathak concert at the age of fourteen followed by concerts in India, Bangladesh, Japan, Kuwait and the USA under the guidance of Pt. Krishan Mohan Mishra. Subsequently, she trained in Bharatnatyam for the past eleven years under Rajdeep Banerjee (Kolkata, India). With over fifteen national gold medals, she was the first Bangladeshi to enrol in a BFA Dance program with an specialized honors in western contemporary dance performance/choreography stream at York University. She is also double majoring in the BA Psychology program and exploring Expressive Arts Therapy in her Psychology thesis paper. Her Dance Senior Project is ethnographic research set out to further define ‘contemporary dance’ within the South Asian Diasporas and North America. From this research process her choreography, Porichoy, was selected to be performed at the upcoming World Dance Alliance Global Summit 2017 conference. Currently, Tahmina is an editorial intern at The Dance Current magazine and is interested in pursuing dance writing/journalism to maintain parallel careers in academia and performance.