Mandeep Raikhy

Currently based in New Delhi, Mandeep started his professional career as a company member at the Danceworx Performing Arts Academy in 1999. In 2002, he moved to London to pursue a BA (Hons) degree in Dance Theatre at Laban, after which he immediately joined the Shobana Jeya Singh Dance Company. Ranging from Shobana Jeya Singh in London to Anusha Lall in New Delhi, his professional dance experience has been in contemporary movement vocabularies emerging out of experimentations with Bharatanatyam.

Anusha Lall

Anusha works in the field of classical dance and contemporary performance in New Delhi. Anusha's interest in dance spans choreography, performance, teaching and research. Her recent choreographic works - Sambodhan, Vyuti and Tilt have been inspired from the movement vocabulary of Bharatanatyam and attempt to discover fresh dynamics and create new perspectives in the way that it is performed and viewed. Anusha collaborates with artists from other disciplines, such as theatre, video, architecture and sculpture to discover new impulses to create work. She is director and founder member of Gati, a Delhi-based forum for dance practice and research.

Astad Deboo

Today, Astad Deboo's name is synonymous with Contemporary Indian Dance, a style that he pioneered at a time when innovation in Indian dance was not easily accepted. His stunning signature style is characterised by intense focus, concentration, and technical virtuosity, along with a distinctively Indian aesthetic of evoking rasa. Even his most abstract dance has a lot of feeling in it and reaches his audience with profound emotional engagement. This multifaceted artist's accomplished solo, group, and collaborative choreography includes his work with the Manipuri thang-ta (martial arts), and pungcholam drum dancers in Rhythm Divine. His humanistic social vision has inspired his creative choreography over the past twenty years with the deaf-first with The Action Players (Dancing Dolphins) in Kolkata, and then with The Clarke School for the Deaf. His choreography entitled ContraPosition with the Clarke School has travelled across India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Australia. The Astad Deboo Foundation, formed in 2002, aims to provide creative training to both the able and the disabled, and to facilitate the artistic development of talented deaf dancers.

Navtej Johar

Navtej is a Bharatanatyam exponent and a choreographer, whose work is unique in that it freely traverses between the traditional and the avant-garde. Trained in Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra, Chennai and with Leela Samson at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi, he also studied at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. With performances at prestigious venues all over the world and several successful international collaborations to his name, Johar is today recognised as a cutting edge performer whose work is sensitive, compelling, evocative and layered. A recipient of the Times of India Fellowship, 1995, and the Charles Wallace Fellowship, 1999, Johar was the performance director of the Commonwealth Parade, for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations, at London, in June 2002.

Hiroshi Miyamoto

Hiroshi was born in Japan. After completing his bachelor of law degree from Hosei University in Tokyo, he moved to Canada to study dance. He was a student in the Performance Training Program at Main Dance in Vancouver, B.C. in 1995/1996, and a scholarship student of the Merce Cunningham Studio in Manhattan, N.Y. in 1998/2000. He is a co-founder and collective member of Green Tea - a collective of Japanese dancers in Toronto. He is also a collective member of 3M Dances. As a dancer, he has worked professionally in diverse styles and with numerous choreographers in Toronto and New York. He is a company member and rehearsal director of in DANCE/Hari Krishnan.