Daria Faïn

Daria Faïn is a New York choreographer and director originally from the Mediterranean. Her work fuses her European cultural background with three decades of practice in Asian philosophies of the body, American dance training, and theater. Faïn has developed a unique movement and performance approach from this diverse background. She studied the classical Indian dance form Bharatha Natyam for five years in Paris with Amala Devi and in Madras, India, with Swarnamuckie (State dancer of Tamil Nadu, 1982). In India, she also studied the co-relationship between this classical form of dance and temple architecture.

While in residence, Daria intends to complete assembling a book. During the pandemic, she created a major multi-media collaborative project called patch the sky with four colored stones, which propelled a necessity to write and was the book’s inception. The book format serves as a perfect container to gather the multi-facets of her work. It includes essays on the bodymind experience, applying Taoist and Buddhist practices at the service of her creative process, choreographic scores, journal entries, photographs, drawings, and correspondence.