Nithya Garg is an artist, curator, and producer who has trained in the south asian classical dance form of bharatanatyam for two decades. She has been informed by the pedagogy of Lata Pada who has guided her formal training through Sampradaya Dance Academy and the professional company of Sampradaya Dance Creations.

Through Sampradaya, Nithya has had the opportunity to tour across Canada, India, and Indonesia. She collaborated with Tanveer Alam, presenting a dance installation at the 2022 Nuit Blanche Humber Galleries Independent Projects entitled In Multiplicity, a multimedia installation. Nithya received the 2020/21 Metcalf Internship to specialize in the fields of Curation and Production with ĀNANDAṀ, worked with the company from 2021-2023 as their Curation and Production Director. With the support of ĀNANDAṀ, Nithya curated an annual dance and music festival, Collective Practice Festival over 2020-2024. Practitioners of south asian dance and music gather for a durational sharing of practice.

Nithya is now an English and History educator and tutor in the East Coast of Canada, and remains endurantly inspired by the way literature transports and illustrates our collecive consciousness.