sanya
Sanya Malnar (born 2001, Paris, France) is a queer transdisciplinary artist currently based in Barcelona. Primarily a dancer, they are passionate about all things art-related, and often experiment with their looks as a vessel for telling stories, revolts and clowneries. Sanya loves cats, reading lengthy books, and spending unreasonable amounts of time browsing in second-hand shops.
Through their creative work, Sanya strives to develop a hybrid and hyper-visual dance practice. They venture into different mediums and ways of presenting movement by incorporating the use of visual arts, in particular through scenographic, textile, and audiovisual practices.
In 2022, they graduated from Trinity Laban with a first class Bachelor of Arts, specialising in Contemporary Dance. At present, Sanya works free-lance, and in parallel studies Fine Arts at La Sorbonne.
performing experience
performing experience
Royal Blood
(may 2023)
dancer/actor. Performance for Royal Blood’s new music video Mountains at Midnight.
S.S.DALEY AW22 @ London Fashion Week
(february 2022)
dancer/model. S.S.DALEY AW22 catwalk The Plate Collector.
Mona Cordes AW22 @ London Fashion Week
(february 2022)
dancer. Mona Cordes’ AW22 CELLUSION, a fashion-dance performance with movement directed by Becky Namgauds.
Candoco Dance Company
(january - march 2022)
commissioned work @ Trinity Laban: creation period with Joel Brown, company dancer, and Charlotte Darbyshire, artistic director. Contribution to the creation process of Downswing, a new choreographic work touching on melancholy and romance.
Explorative Observation of Nymps by Rossella Damiani & Aneta Šebestová
(september 2021)
model/dancer. Editorial for FLANELLE magazine.
Drumstick (2008), choreography by Alison Curtis-Jones
(june 2021)
dancer. Re-imagination of 'Dancing Drumstick' (1913) by Rudolf Von Laban. Piece based on the idea of the rhythm of the body made audible.
Shobana Jeyasingh/Streetwise Opera
(february 2021)
collaborator/performer as part of CoLab @ Trinity Laban. Creation of In this place, a digital project involving the performance of dance and opera.
Russell Maliphant Dance Company
(december 2020)
work placement. Participation in company classes and workshops, meeting and Q&A with its staff.
Tribute to Fela Kuti, choreography by Dele Sosimi
(december 2019)
collaborator/performer as part of CoLab @ Trinity Laban. Afrobeat dance performance in tribute to Fela Kuti, accompanied by live music.
Seabird, choreography by Patricia Karagozian
(june 2019)
dancer. Repertoire solo performed as part of the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris end-of-year exam.
Re:Rosas @ CN D
(october 2018)
dancer. Re-adaptation of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Rosas danst Rosas. Performance along the Canal de l'Ourcq in Paris. In collaboration with the CN D (Centre National de la Danse).
Why, choreography by Andréa Sitter
(mai 2018)
dancer. Series of workshops with the German choreographer for the re-staging of her piece Rock N' Roll Suicide, a tragedy, liberally inspired by Jean Cocteau's play La Voix humaine.