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Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the ‘free world’

Teaching my first undergrad seminar today! A course I designed called “The Body and/in Performance: Dance & Drama in Tibet & China”. What tips do you have for me, #AcademicSky?

To distract myself from the news yesterday, I posted a new draft translation on my blog! It is a short tantric dance manual by Candragomi, a 14th century Tibetan scholar from Shalu Monastery in Central Tibet, entitled “The Dancer’s Performance: Instructions on Dance.”

Merry Christmas!

Saw the comparable Dina Martina sing several of her holiday substandards. Simply satisfactory!

Thrilled to report that Garbo’s Thanksgiving “outfit” was a hit! #dogsofbluesky

My Thanksgiving apple pie 🥧

Closed out #SBLAAR24 with some beach time before going back to frigid NYC. Enjoyed meeting everyone and getting to talk about Tibetan Buddhism, ritual, and performance! Until next year…

Lovely sunset after a full day of #SBLAAR24

Between 1922 and 1940, Georges Bataille wrote a piece called “The Mask,” published only after his death in 1962. He argues that masks return civilized humanity to a dark and chaotic animality: “THE MASK IS CHAOS BECOME FLESH”. I translated it for a class a few years ago and posted it here:

A theatrical still of Greta Garbo in the 1934 film The Painted Veil gazing upon a standing image of Guanyin. Looking closely, we see Garbo’s hand touching the shoulder of Guanyin, a moment of contact between the "icons." /🧵 🗃️ #filmsky #GretaGarbo

Sir Lady Java passed away on Saturday. She was a legendary drag performer in Los Angeles in the 1960s and, with the help of the ACLU, she filed one of the earliest lawsuits challenging crossdressing bans under the First Amendment after the LAPD shut down her show in 1967. She was 82.

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1. History of tantric dance and embodied transmission of knowledge in the Himalaya 2. Buddhist influence in modern Greek lit

Getting ready to present at #SBLAAR24 next weekend in San Diego! I’ll be talking about how embodiment within performative religious practices de-stabilizes the authority of text-centric frameworks of knowledge transmission. Panel name is “The Embodied Artist and the Artist as Text”. See you there!

Garbo was so stunned by all of the attention her Thanksgiving outfit got that she is now insisting on wearing sunglasses on her walk so the paparazzi can’t hound her!

Not many of us yet, but here's a starter pack for Tibetan & Himalayan Studies. Give a shout if you'd like to be added or know of others who should be included. go.bsky.app/QLFmW2S

Spent a while yesterday being confused about what Tyson chicken had to do with Netflix…

Trying on our outfit for Thanksgiving 🦃 #dogsofbluesky

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This makes me feel a certain…hmmmm 🫰🫰🫰….nausea.

Theatre kid here 🙋‍♂️👋 I heard this is where we’re supposed bring our ~theatre kid energy~ now

Trump is a billionaire. Elon, the guy funding him and running his propaganda network is a billionaire man child. Dems, I'm begging you, start demonizing billionaires like they do immigrants and trans people. We need a leftist populism that makes people hate the very concept of billionaires.