Sumedha is an interdisciplinary dance artist-researcher, filmmaker. She is apursuing her PhD in Ethnomusicology in University of Music and Performing arts Graz, and currently a Lecturer at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, teaching Screendance and Interdisciplinary seminar courses also in Ashoka University, JNu, Columbia University and University of Utah. She is an Erasmus Mundus scholarship recipient and studied her Choreomundus MA in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage in Norway, France, Hungary, and the UK. With a focus on screendance filmmaking, dance anthropology, and visual ethnography, she traveled, lived together, and collaborated with a range of forms, communities, and dance-theatre makers across local, national, and international locations. Her films have travelled nationally and internationally: Tranzit House Romania; Screen.Dance, Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen Screendance Festival; San Souci Festival for Dance Cinema; Movimiento en Movimiento International Film Festival, Mexico City; Numeridanse TV, France; International Documentary and Short Film Festival; and International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Conference, Ghana. Her noteworthy films include Biroho (2023), Saraab (2019), and Mau (2023). Teaching helps reflect on her own artistic practice and continue her grandmother’s love for teaching as a way to transgress.