Sanchita Sharma is a New Delhi-born, Austin-based performing artist, choreographer, and dance scholar with a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. Sharma’s research interests include dissent and the dancing body, migration and belonging, and somatic attention and improvisational dance practices. She explores the politics of choreographed “Otherness” in public space with particular attention to gestures of dissent, non-compliance, and refusal. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Dance at Austin Community College, Development Advisor for Future Front Texas, and Chair for the Dance Studies Association’s Working Group, Practice-as-Research. Her dances have been presented at Daredevil Arts Festival, ARCOS Presents Long-Form, Austin Dance Festival, Preheat Film Festival, Keshet Center for the Arts, Seoul International Short Film Festival, Gati Dance Forum, and Maya Dance Theatre, among others. Her writings have been published in Choreographic Practices, Dance Research Journal, South Asian Dance Intersections, and Dance Chronicle.
