Shabari Rao is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India. Her work is rooted in practice-based research. The body plays a central role in her process, which is collaborative and emergent in nature and takes the shape of performing, directing, curating, teaching, writing, and more recently, experimental film and audio work. Over the last 20 years her work has been supported and presented internationally through conferences, festivals, residencies, and publications. Shabari has held several academic positions, the most recent of which is visiting faculty at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, preceding which she was a founding faculty member at RV University where she headed the Performing Arts program in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Currently she is a Doctoral research scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai where her research focuses on Embodied Pedagogy with a focus on mathematics teaching.

Specialism: Contemporary Dance, Creative Labs, Deep Listening, Environment/Conservation/Eco-Embodied/Horticulture, Mindfulness, Practitioner Lab