About Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram

Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram is a choreographer, art-science curator and poet. Trained in Bharatanatyam, Butoh and Flamenco, Sandhiya has led and performed in several collaborative performances between dance styles and used dance therapy to work with special needs children and survivors of domestic violence. She has worked as a research professional for ten years in the field of Neuroscience and has received the Milpitas city grant to curate an exhibit on Neuroscience-based visual and performing art. In 2013, Sandhiya co-founded and worked as the Creative Director of Sangam Arts– a non-profit whose mission is to enable meaningful and lasting connections between communities using classical arts. Sandhiya has served on the Jury Panel for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival in San Francisco, 2014. Sandhiya loves working the land and has been extensively working with master gardeners to design sustainable landscapes in the Pacific Northwest for the last 4 years.