Sasha Amaya is a dancer, choreographer and installation artist. In addition to her dance training in Canada, Germany and France, she studied architecture and urbanism in Cambridge and holds a post-masters degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
In her work and projects she focuses on the interplay between music, movement, dance, art history, collage, text and architectural environments and is particularly interested in how we frame, utilise, reject and repurpose historical narratives and techniques in contemporary artworks.
Sasha Amaya's work has been exhibited internationally and supported by various public institutions in Canada as well as in France, the UK, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Scotland and the USA. In Germany, she has worked at Sophiensaele, Uferstudios, DOCK 11, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, PACT Zollverein and LAKE Studios. She has held residencies including L'Abbaye du Royaumont (FR) under Hervé Robbe, La cité internationale des arts Paris (FR), Centre national de la danse Lyon (FR), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH) and the Banff Centre Canada (CAN). In 2022 Sasha was invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland as Never Walk Alone Choreographer/Tourguide. She has also written for Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzplattform, Tanzarchiv, Stream and Tanzschreiber Berlin.
