Mayuri Bhandari
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th, 8pm—“UNSILENCED”
“THE ANTI – YOGI”
This blended show of yoga, dance, live percussion and poetry peels back the yoga mat to reveal the recolonization and commercialism of yoga in the West and nationalization in the East.
Mayuri Bhandari is an Actress, Dancer, Figure Skater, and Yoga Professor. Performing
in both Bollywood and Hollywood industries; she is the first South Asian figure skater
showcase figure skating on Indian National Television and is a National figure skat
champion. She has worked with Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, and
Hrithik Roshan.
Her short film BINDI received recognition at film festivals in Athens, Berlin, Seattle,
Los Angeles. Mayuri’s work was recently featured at the United Nations Women’s
Event in Los Angeles. She has appeared in popular Indian TV shows like “Dare 2
Dance” (Indian SYTYCD).
She has starred in film and television shows such as Lincol
Lawyer (Netflix), Dave (FX/Hulu), Rebel (ABC), Nightingale (Prime), 911: Lon
Star (FOX), and Dare 2 Dance/Just Dance (Star Plus). Her voiceover work
includes Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony), Ms.
Marvel (Disney), Shantaram (Apple), Netflix, and many audiobooks (Penguin Rando
House). She has also done several theater productions- starring as the lead in Clown
Bar at the Hudson Theater and AA Sketch at the Ruskin Theater Co. in Los Angeles.
Mayuri fuses her art with activism; she is an advocate for women’s empowerment,
indigenous rights, and environmental activism. She’s a yoga and dance professor at
Loyola Marymount University.
