About Us
The Teachers
Deepak Rawat is a trained dancer with 15 years experience teaching and performing dance.in Bollywood New Style,Hip Hop, Bhangra, Jazz, Garba and Indian Wedding Dance
Currently touring with the internationally acclaimed Bollywood Musical "The Merchants of Bollywood"
He has appeared in more than 30 Bollywood Movies and 90 stage musicals and has taught and performed with many Indian Movie Stars. www.myspace.com/jyekrishna
He is married to an Australian and has two small children. Deepak will return in December 2009(?)
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.
Sunny Kumar trained in the latest styles utilized by Bollywood
He has danced all over India and Nepal with the Dance Group "The Planets" performing with shows such as Brian Adams, Shaggy and Dr Albans.
Bollywood Dance School
The Bollywood Dance School commenced classes in April 2006.
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