Yangchenma Arts & Culture

Lindsay Gilmour is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores presence, ritual, and rebellion--fusing text, voice, and the moving body. She combines the mystical and absurd, both honoring and poking fun at the human condition. Her most recent works delve into embodying local landscapes and our need for wild untamed spaces exploring the interconnected and reciprocal relationship between body and earth through the Discipline of Authentic Movement. Her films, made in collaboration with cinematographer Nathan Whitmont, partner with diverse landscapes including desert, old grove forests, ocean, and suburban neighborhoods. The films have been screened both nationally and internationally, most recently at Dance Camera West in Los Angeles, Dance Camera Istanbul and In Shadow in Lisbon.  Lindsay is the recipient of a Nehru Fulbright Award for Academic and Professional Excellence (2018) and a Hellman Fellowship (2020-2021) in support of her research exploring the preservation, adaptation, and innovation of Ritual Dance in Vajrayana Buddhist Nunneries and Monasteries in India. She has made two films in India, Ocean of Mudra and Dance of the Dakinis and is currently editing a third. She is deeply interested in embodied knowledge and exploring what ancient dances might share with contemporary somatic movement practices. Lindsay is on the Board of Directors of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in India and is part of Core of Cultures research team dedicated to safeguarding intangible world culture and assisting the continuity of ancient dance traditions and embodied spiritual practices. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at University of California Irvine