Sarah Manya is a choreographer, interdisciplinary performance maker, performer and writer. Her work has been performed in Europe, Canada and United States, in festivals such as Springdance, Festival Something Raw, Motel Mozaique, Festival Tweetakt, and Noorderzon, Body Stroke, Recyclart (BE) Festival Neuer Tanz (DE). She has created numerous site-specific and interactive works, focusing on intimacy and the relationship between audience members, performances for small audiences and new media. Her career began in New York City at Mulberry Street Theatre supported by New York Foundation for the Arts and since then has held guest artist and lecturer positions at New York University and Amsterdam School of the Arts Modern Theater Dance Department among others. As a performer, she has worked with Felix Ruckert, Martin Butler, Vera Mantero and Vloeistof. Her recent residencies include Atlantic Center for The Arts (2020), Banff Centre for the Arts and Culture (Canada 2019), Choreographic Centre O Vertigo (Quebec 2018) and Studio 303 (2018). She holds a post-graduate degree from DasArts, The Advanced Programme of the Theaterschool in Theatre and Dance Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography in the Netherlands.