Sanjoy Roy

Sanjoy Roy (London, UK) has been writing on dance for the Guardian since 2002, and has contributed to many other publications including the New York Times, New Statesman, Dance Gazette and Dancing Times, and is London correspondent for Dance International magazine. He studied contemporary dance at Laban, London, after which he was production editor and designer at Dance Books Ltd for 10 years. In 2018, he became the founder editor of Springback Magazine, a Europe-wide online dance journal, launched by Aerowaves European dance network. Since 2014 he has been a mentor for the Springback Academy dance writing program, and has also given writing workshops in London, Madrid, Chennai and Reggio Emilia. He has been a jury member for choreography platforms including The Place Prize (UK), Premio Equilibrio (Italy), PECDA (India) and Certamen Coreográfico (Spain). He keeps an online archive of his writing at sanjoyroy.net