sunita asnani
movement, performance
artbased facilitation
gallery.
I am a dance maker, art-based facilitator, coach, and social entrepreneur with a background in adult education and social science. I live and work in Bern, Switzerland, with my husband and partner, Chris Lechner.
My work brings together social questions and artistic research. I am interested in how we create collective perspectives, cultures, and identities—and in how we navigate migration, unconscious bias, and the ways we design ourselves and the world around us.
My practice is rooted in curiosity about the body, the senses, and the spaces between us. How does the body remember and communicate? What is the social dimension of dreaming? How do we make sense through our senses? How can artistic processes open up new ways of seeing, relating, and imagining together?
More about my movement research can be found on my blog.
More about my work in art-based facilitation can be found here, and more about my work around cultural diversity at cultural-diversity.ch.
Under Your Skin (2026) - light installation & performance in Effinger Coworking Space Bern as part of KunstimMai.
A Brief Flight of Stairs (2026) - performance in Bernapark Deisswil as part of the BETA Tanzfestival together with Chris Lechner and the TuningPoint Collective.
Artistic Research on the Tuning Practice (2025) - teaching and researching the tuningscore practice of Lisa Nelson with the soap-dance-collective and Tuning Point Collective Bern, together with Chris Lechner.
Art Residency Atelier Bick (2025) - a week of self-lead movement research. The aim of my residency was to rethink and express the fault lines and simultaneity of my cultural background – Indian-Pakistani and Swiss – through movement.
Miteinander(s) (2025) - an artbased educational event on Unconscious Bias for Social Services Asyl of Kanton Zug, together with Chris Lechner, Fabienne Stoll.
Bewegte Dialoge (2024) - an interactive performance together with Chris Lechner shown at Aktionstage gegen Rassismus in Lucerne.
Sonnenstille (2024) - an installation with snapshots from my movement research, captured by Geges Löwl,shown at the Artfestival of Effinger Coworking Space Bern.
Option Factory (2023) - A cinematic performance, a physical act, a concert, negotiated between 5 performers and a musician, as part of the Beta Stage Festival.
Bewegt durch die Pandemie (2022) - A dance and a concert with Anicia Kohler, performed as part of the Effinger Artfestival.
Vision Cabin (2022) - A dance. A concert. An iconoclasm. A ritual. Performed at Prozess, Bern as part of the BeTa Festival.
Out of water #2 (2021) - a resumption and further development of the piece performed in 2020. A live concert and cinematographic dance performance at Prozess, Bern.
Art-based Facilitation (2021) - an ongoing blog about art-based facilitation and real use cases.
Movement Research (2021) - an ongoing journal on my daily practice and movement research documented in a series of videos and a blog.
#1 In your hands, #2 Projectory, #Digital Twin Pt 1, #5 Digital Twin Pt 2, #7 Blueprint (2020) - a research on movement and projection in Bern during the 2nd lockdown, documented in a series of videos and a journal.
"Out of Water"(2020) - a dance performance and live concert at Beta Festival 2020 at Prozess.
"The Tuning Research Group"(2020) - a two hours long event at the Festival Instant Composition in Zürich.
"Rare Window 2"(2020)., a performance in a small window, at Progr Bern.
"A beginning"(2019) - a dance performance and installation in an abandoned house in the country side of Aargau.
"Blind Trio"(2019) - three dancers improvising, giving each other instructions with closed eyes, following the Tuning Scores from Lisa Nelson, at Progr Jubiläum Bern.
"Fair Fashion Show"(2019) - the catwalk as an Event that installs fashion, models and dancers in Kraftwerk Zürich.
"Cooperation vs. Collaboration"(2019) - a speech about our learnings at Brownbag, Effinger Coworking Space.
"Effinger Coworking Space 3D"(2018) - a new format of storytelling together with Matthias Tobler at the Jahrestagung iafob. We combined speech, movement, graphic design and video.
"Table Conversations #3"(2018) at Beta Stage Festival at Effinger Coworking Space, Bern.
"Reise zum Ursprung" (2017) in a collective brought together by Oleg Kaufmann, performed at Kulturnacht Solothurn.
Canopy of Love (2017) performed in Paris, Musée Guimet, in the exposition space of Jayashree Chakravarty.
"Looking Glass" und "Mon trésor" (2017) at FIM, Unternehmen Mitte Basel.
“A Brief History of Horizontality"(2016) in collaboration with Shaunak Sen at PROGR Bern.
Table conversations #2 (2016) at unwrap the present, PROGR Bern.
Glass Auge (2016) as part of our residency in Kettenreaktion ArtCampus Attisholz.
Windows 2013 at Documentary Arts Asia in Chang Mai
Table Conversations #1 (2012) in New Delhi as the opener of the contemporary dance festival IGNITE
Email: hoi@sunitaasnani.com