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She has developed this craft for the past five years, performing improvised Indo-contemporary dance works with remarkable live musicians and spoken word poets such as Bell Orchestre, LAL, Kalmunity Vibe Collective, Jason ‘Blackbird’ Selman, and Kamala Sundararajan. Until 2000, Meena toured internationally with the Nrithyalaya Dance Company under artistic director Vasantha Krishnan. In addition to more than a dozen improvised dance works, her choreographic repertoire includes: home/Body (2009, 40-minutes), AVAL (2008, 26-minutes), Unravelled (2006, 50-minutes) and Ekatva (2006, 15-minutes). Since 2004, Meena has performed her original choreographies and improvisational works in Canada, New York City, Niger, Chile and Brazil. Parallel to her dance career, Meena is a video artist and community arts educator with eight years of local and international experience collaborating with performing artists and marginalized groups such as youth, people of color and incarcerated women. She facilitates video and dance workshops in socio-political-cultural community organizations and is deeply inspired by the people who share these spaces. Currently, Meena is performing AVAL and developing two new choreographic works. She has also recently co-founded root*system with Anastasia Culurides and Pohanna Pyne Feinberg, a inter-disciplinary live arts ensemble that interplays elements of music, dance, video, lighting design, photography and soundscape to express the beauty, the tragedy and the surprises of life into tangible and multi-sensory experiences.