Sandhya Daemgen

Sandhya Daemgen is a performer and choreographer based in Berlin. She is interested in ideas exploring the multi-dimensional reality of the everyday, using music/voice, sci-fi and new modes of personal and societal interaction. She holds degrees in Cultural Theory from Wesleyan University, USA and in Dance, Context and Choreography from Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin. Her notable pieces include: Alter Ego (2014, Berlin), The Listening Party Experiment (2015, Berlin), What's That Noise (2015, Berlin), and This is Not the Omega (2016, Amsterdam). Since 2011 she has worked closely with Tino Sehgal performing in various pieces and also has performed for Ari Benjamin Meyers, Alexandra Pirici, Kat Valastur and Arcade Fire, amongst others. In March 2017 she worked alongside Ari Benjamin Meyers and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble to present his new work Litany and Rapture within the context of his solo show at Spring Workshop, Hong Kong.