About Us

 

 

The Teacher

Deepak Singh (Rawat) is a trained dancer with 15 years experience teaching and performing Bollywood New Style, Hip Hop, Bhangra, Jazz, Garba and Indian Wedding Dance. He was lead dancer with the internationally acclaimed Bollywood Musical "The Merchants of Bollywood"

He has appeared in more than 30 Bollywood Movies and Stage Musicals and has taught and performed with many Indian Movie Stars.

www.myspace.com/jyekrishna

"Dance like you're in Bollywood" article

http://www.szubha.com/content/2009/feb/01/dance-like-youre-in-bollywood/

 

Sheila Gawthorne is a trained Bharata Natyam (Indian Classical Dance) dancer with 30 years experience teaching and performing dance.

A secondary school teacher, she studied under Dr Chandrabhanu making her Arengetram (graduation) in 1978 and continued her studies in India incorporating Manipuri, Kathak and Satriya styles in her Classical Indian repertoire. She has performed on Doordarshan TV in India.

She has also taught and performed belly dance and studied a wide range of other dance genres. Her family was resident in India for more than 100 years.

She was married to an Indian Film actor which afforded her a unique insight into the Bollywood Movie Industry. She has also appeared as a movie extra.

 

Elizabeth Cahalan is a trained ballet dancer who has become entranced by Bollywood. Her enthusiastic delight comes through in her performances, and she is also proving to be a natural teacher. She regularly performs in Adelaide's Fringe Festival and Melbourne's Comedy Festival.

Aakash Somani has danced with professional Bollywood shows in Bangalore and London, the International India Film Festival in Rome and the International Salsa Congress in Bangalore.

 

 

Bollywood Dance School

 

Bollywood Dance School commenced classes in April 2006.

We have a performing group which dances for Corporate, Community and Private functions - contact us if you are planning a Bollywood Event!

We are looking for dancers interested in performing

We can host one-off classes as a fun introduction to Bollywood dance – eg. We recently finished off a teaching in-service with an hour of dance … it was a riot!!

If you are hosting a Bollywood-theme-party we could do a 20 minute introduction to some steps to set the mood. We can teach in schools – as part of an activities program or as a one-off. We conducted the Education Programme for "Cinema India" at the National Gallery of Victoria. And we have choreographed items for Schools Annual Concerts

We recently choreographed the dance sequences for "Perfume Garden" "Call Girl the Musical" and "Elephant Princess" for Channel 10.

To see sample videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bGjQJvFkQ Or facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BollywoodDanceSchool /