Choreographic Works Performed with Other Artists and In Different Mediums

Sanchita has worked with choreographers Mandeep Raikhy, Preethi Athreya, Deepak Kurki Swamy, Navtej Singh Johar, Sheela Raj, Parijat Desai, Mayuri and Madhuri Upadhyay, Sheila Hopkins, and Gilles Chuyen in India, and Julie Tolentino, Ligia Lewis and Milka Djordjevich in Los Angeles, and Stephanie Patrick in Austin, Texas. She has appeared as a dancer and actor in theatre, films, television dance shows, and music videos in India. She has created over ten choreographic projects of her own.

Sanchita performing her work (re)present at Natya Ballet Center in New Delhi, India, 2014

Live Performance

  • Doubts and Dreams (April 2023) Choreographed by Stephanie Patrick (Early Era Collective) at Café Dance and Factory on 5th (Austin).
  • Love Come Quick (March 2022) A site-specific performance event and installation organized by home LA and devised by Julie Tolentino.
  • Deader than Dead (2019) A group dance-theatre work with Ligia Lewis at UCLA.
  • Pray (2018) Choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy, commissioned by and performed at Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, Delhi.
  • Savdhan! (April 2018) Choreographed by Mandeep Raikhy and conceptualized with Shaunak Mahbubani, presented at the Regimes of Truth Exhibition with the support of Gujral Foundation and Gati Dance Forum, Delhi.
  • The Lost Wax Project (2018) Choreographed by Preethi Athreya and performed at Cholamandal Artist’s Village, Chennai; G5A Foundation, Mumbai; Pickle Factory Season 1, Kolkata (Feb-March) and at Prakriti Contemporary Dance Excellence Awards, Chennai (Aug).
  • Long Nights of Resistance (July 2017) Facilitated by Mandeep Raikhy at Gati Dance Forum, Delhi.
  • Edges 2 (2016) Choreographed by Meghna Bhardwaj performed at Prakriti Excellence Contemporary Dance Awards (PECDA) (Aug), Lost and Found Festival: Invisible Cities (Sep), and Indradhanush Dilli- A Festival of Arts (Oct).

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Dance Films

Lines (2016): A short-film choreographed by Nikita Maheshwary 

The short film delves into the multi-pronged issue of drug abuse in Punjab. The border state of India, each year Punjab gets drugs worth billions of dollars from the neighbouring countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The land is besieged with social, political, geographical & emotional recuperation of the drug trafficking and increasing youth addiction. LINES is a part of SitaaurGita, an ongoing movement based video series on sociopolitical factors of India. The series attempts to illustrate the social, political & cultural fabric and investigate how deeply they are intertwined. The issues addressed, though pan-Indian in their discourse, have been showcased in an urban middle-class perspective.

FILM SCREENED AT:
India Dans Festival 2018, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Guiar Screedance International Festival 2018, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival 2017, Bucharest, Romania.
POOL16 Internationale Tanz Film Plattform, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
IKONO TV Dance On Film Screening, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
IGNITE! Contemporary Dance Festival 2016, New Delhi, India.
The Outlet Project 2016, New Jersey, USA.
Avayava Contemporary Dance Festival 2016, Pune, India.
Lives Lived, Contemporary Arts Week 2016, Korean Cultural Centre, Delhi, India.

LECTURE & SCREENING:
Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Dansbrant Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Arts, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Faculty of Arts, Chandigarh Arts College, Chandigarh, India.

CREDITS:
Performers – Sanchita Sharma & Nikita Maheshwary
DoP & Editor – Jeetin Sharma

They must be the Kings (2014)

A short-film conceptualized by American Indian choreographer, Parijat Desai.

Collaborations with Visual Artists:

  • Dancer for Collateral events at India Art Fair with visual artists, Thukral and Tagra, and choreographed by Deepak Kurki Swamy, New Delhi (Jan 2017)

Worked both as a dancer and a choreographer for the following visual artists, art galleries and festivals:

  • Vinny Bhagat, Shivnakaun Collective, Delhi (2015)
  • Muralist Harshvardhan Kadam, Inkbrushnme, Goa (2015)
  • Gitanjali Art Gallery, Goa (2015)
  • Story of Light, installation improvisational performance, Goa (Jan 2015)

Music Video:

Choreographed and danced in a music video for the band, The Revisit Project, in the song, Ranjish Hi Sahi (2015).

International collaborations & festivals:

  • The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo with Teamwork Arts (UK: Aug 2017 & 2015)
  • Colors of India Festival organized by Teamwork Arts and ICCR (China: May 2017)
  • LightTheWay event for Global Goals at Purana Qila choreographed by Mayuri Upadhyay (Delhi: Sep 2015)
  • Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Mela choreographed by Gilles Chuyen (UK: Aug 2015) 
  • One Billion Rising, choreographed by Amit Kumar, The Danceworx (Delhi: 2013)
  • The Cascade Project, international collaboration between The Danceworx and National Dance Company of Wales (2012)
  • Salaam India, a theatrical play directed by Lushin Dubey and performed on a seven-city tour in the US (2010).
  • 1000 Day Countdown to Commonwealth, performed at India Gate (Delhi: 2010)

Film and Television Performance Experience

  • Dancer for Bollywood Films, Mirzya, directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra; Rockstar, directed by Imtiaz Ali; and Aisha, directed by Rajshree Ojha.
  • Actors for advertisement commercials for Nescafe (2015) and for India 24*7 News channel (2015)