Nandini Sikand (they/them) is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and educator imprinted in New Delhi. They have cofounded three dance companies and performed at venues such as India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Joyce SoHo, United Nations, Hunter College, Brooklyn Museum, Pace University, and CUNY Graduate Center. 

Nandini has published Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances: The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance and several articles on cinema and performance. Their experimental and documentary films about the prison industrial complex, immigration, nationalism, sex work, breast cancer, and counterculture music have screened worldwide. They are working on a monograph about colonialism, race, and criminality, a collection of essays about the travails of parenting while brown, and a film about the fragility of the dancing body. Nandini is the cofounder and codirector of Sakshi Productions, a neo-classical and contemporary dance company, and the associate director/choreographer/board member for Harmattan Theater, an environmental performance group. A professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, Nandini is a certified instructor in vinyasa and Kundalini yoga, and teaches at Northampton County Prison.