Ranjana Dave

Ranjana Dave (she/her) is an artist, writer and editor. In her work, she explores how people build relationships with other people, ideas, objects and ecologies – what makes us social beings. Her book Body / Language (TAKE on Art, 2024) explores the relationship between language and the body in society. She edited the award-winning Improvised Futures: Encountering the Body in Performance (Tulika Books/ West Heavens, 2021). She has built projects within institutional contexts, co-founding Dance Dialogues in Mumbai, and through her work as Programmes Director at Gati Dance Forum and Bikaner House in New Delhi. She was a dance curator at Serendipity Arts Festival in 2018 and 2025. She has an active pedagogic practice and has taught at Ambedkar University Delhi and Ashoka University. Ranjana is currently Managing Editor - Arts at STIR.