Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram

Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram is a dance educator, choreographer and poet. Trained in Bharatanatyam, Flamenco and Butoh, Sandhiya has led and performed in several collaborative performances between dance styles and has served on the Jury Panel for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Sandhiya’s art practice involves delving into the tensions between word and meaning through dance improvisation and abstraction of form. Her work emerges multiple porous techniques in relationship with the natural environment and a deep enquiry of artistic processes. Before her work with the environment, she was a researcher in the field of Neuroscience. Her work has been published in journals including Nature, Art and Perception, Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature Journal, International Journal of Screendance and the Trumpeter. She is currently experimenting with screen dance to explore the interconnections between body, screen and the natural world. Sandhiya is a graduate of University of Utah and Stanford University.