Diya Naidu is an Independent Artist based in Bangalore. She is a Choreographer, Dancer, Performer, Facilitator and Arts organizer.

Diya Naidu is an Independent Artist based in Bangalore. She is a Choreographer, Dancer, Performer, Facilitator and Arts organizer. She directs a collective of independent dancers called the Citizens of Stage Co Lab who are invested in sustainability for dance by deeply rooting it in the daily life of the community. As a choreographer, her work has traversed into the area of gender and feminism and the somatic implications of patriarchal penetration (all manner of invasions the patriarchy enacts on all humans regardless of their gender). She explores intimacy and touch through her work and performs several intimate works. Her latest is Strange Intimacies, a solo where she performs alone for one person for about two hours. This work creates an intimate encounter between two strangers within a safe space. She collaborates with artists all over the world and is currently in her fifth virtual reality project with Cie Gilles Jobin, Geneva and performed with them virtually at the Venice VR extend biennale this month. She performs in an indo-swiss piece about gender fluidity called Ef_femininity which has been touring since 2018. She has recently begun engaging in the cultural scene in Africa with the East African Soul train residency. Diya has collaborated with the Company Theater Mumbai to choreograph and perform Khwaab Sa a piece that premiered in Taiwan and then toured extensively for two years. During the pandemic she was commissioned to direct and make a film for the Embassy of Switzerland, Delhi. She was also commissioned to write for a publication by Impulse theater festival, Dusseldorf, 2023. Previously, she worked for ten years in and with dance companies like The Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, Danceworx and Rythmosaic.