Sasha Amaya (CA/CO/DE) is a dancer, choreographer, and installation artist.
Amaya’s is occupied with tradition, virtuosity, questions of craftsmanship, and othered forms of being and knowing, as means to revisit the dynamics of the art historical and speculative. She utilizes, rejects, reframes, and repurposes myths, narratives, and techniques in contemporary art work as part of a broader illumination and reconfiguration of the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and the possible. Shown in both visual art and choreographic contexts, her works are known for their combination of play and precision, her biting revisions of the art historical, and the body as a radical agent of form.
Sasha Amaya’s work as a performer and creator has been exhibited and supported by Tanzhaus Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, and ROXY Birsfelden in
Switzerland
, in
Germany
at the Sophiensaele, Tanzfabrik, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, nGbk, DOCK 11, Uferstudios, Lake Studios, fabrik Potsdam, and PACT Zollverein, in
France
at le centre national de la danse Lyon (CN D Lyon), la Cité internationale des arts, l’Abbaye du Royaumont, and the Centre culturel canadien a l’Ambassade du Canada en France à Paris, and at Somerset House in
London
, as well as
Sweden, Canada, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Scotland.
www.sasha-amaya.com