I was born in Rangoon, Burma and spent my childhood in Calcutta and Delhi. I grew up in an atmosphere of cultural dialogue, rooted in the sensual and spiritual intensity of India. I started dancing in Europe when I was fourteen and realized soon after, that it was that what I wanted to do in life, which led to a career as a ballet dancer. Later I discovered new tools of approaching my own body through the lens of contemporary art as much as understanding our body through the healing arts. As an independent artist I went on to explore ways to be healed through moving and started sharing my experience with groups since 1996. I discovered a matrix of fluid connection that moved me in many new ways. I started noticing the body's simple, everyday life as a rich ground for change: to 'be' movement, not to 'do' movement, to be able to let go of who we think we should be when we dance. An important by-product of this was the discovery that anybody's body could do that. In 2005 I moved back to India. Now, in India, creating art work, travelling, retreating into the mountains, sharing in the community, giving workshops and holding spaces for dance make up my life as much as working outside of India when the monsoon hits.

I was born in Switzerland and brought up in an Indian (Sindhi) family. As far as I can remember, being a bridge between worlds, cultures, realities has always been the most natural and inborn interest and quest in my life. I started my dance biography at the age of five with a classical Ballet training for the next thirteen years. I then moved to Benares and later to Delhi, where I studied the North Indian classical dance Kathak and Indian Classical Vocals. In this context I discovered my insatiable love and thirst for danced improvisation, which is to me an art and a way to understand life. Back to Switzerland a few years later I found my love and passion for New Dance and Contact Improvisation that has since then been a main focus and source of inspiration of my life. Besides my dancing- and teaching activities in Contact Improvisation I’ve been dancing, performing and teaching Argentinean Tango. My interest for connecting and understanding different realities in society led me outside of the dance world to my Master studies in Sociology of Religion at the University of Zürich and my work in the fields of adult education, migration and refugee issues. Since this year my life journey has been calling me back to a life in India, where teaching and improvising are giving me the frame for a deeper research of my own body language.