Gwen Rakotovao

Gwen Rakotovao is a choreographer, dancer, and artist-researcher working at the intersection of performance and cultural inquiry. She received her MA in Performance Studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and is currently a PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts. Her work unfolds internationally across stage and research contexts. Bridging choreographic practice and academic inquiry, her research engages cultural memory and diaspora, with a particular focus on a Malagasy funeral ritual as site of embodied knowledge and choreographic thinking.