about

Sunayana Shetty (IND/DE) is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer and educator working across performance, research and facilitation. Her choreographic practice looks into the temporal nature of emotions: how they are constructed and unfold over time through form, sensation and attention. She roots her work in building performative states, merging different narratives and creating intimate spaces between the audience and the performer. Sunayana has completed her Bachelor in Dance, Context, Choreography from the HZT Berlin in 2018.

Alongside her artistic work, she is engaged in pedagogical and collective formats.  She is visiting faculty at the Institute of Classical and Modern Dance in Mumbai. In 2020, she co-initiated the Among Us Workshop series, which brings together dancers and non-dancers to engage with body-based practices through shared inquiry and exchange. Since 2023, Among Us continues to facilitate dance workshops in different cities in India. 

Since 2018, she has shown her works in venues at Berlin, Lithuania, New York, Mumbai, Estonia among others. She continues to work as a choreographer/performer with artists across Europe and India.