Samita Sinha
Collaborating Artist
Vocalist, performer, composer, and educator Samita Sinha creates multidisciplinary performance works that investigate origins of voice. She synthesizes Indian vocal traditions and embodied energetic practices to create a decolonized, multivalent language of vibration and transformation. Sinha’s works have been commissioned by Asia Society, Performance Space 122, Invisible Dog Art Center, Danspace Project, Rubin Museum, Queens Museum, Gibney, and Onassis Foundation, and presented by The Kitchen, Wexner Center for the Arts, REDCAT, PICA, National Sawdust and others. She has received awards from National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, National Performance Network, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Ucross/Alpert Residency Prize, and collaborated across disciplines with artists including Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Ralph Lemon, Sunny Jain and Grey Mcmurray, Sunil Bald, and Sekou Sundiata. Sinha teaches voice through many channels, recently through Danspace, Princeton University, Swarthmore College, Movement Research, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, and New York Asian Women's Center.
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