Bollywood Sensations

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Director & Choreographer

Kaizad fell in to the field of dancing and performing arts by chance. He started dancing to encourage and support his sister (in what was then a very conservative society) and joined Shiamak Daver’s Institute of Performing Arts, in Mumbai, India, in 1992. He was primarily trained in jazz and funk styles and later on in Kuchupudi (Indian classical dance) in Sydney. While he had his heart set on dancing he had to move away from Mumbai to finish his engineering degree. Whilst there, he continued to dance through his engineering days and lead an all boys group to perform and win at various inter-collegiate dance festivals and competitions including a national competition at Bangalore in 1996.

He continued to perform with Shiamak Daver’s troupe as and when he got a chance and some of the highlights included Filmfare Awards 1994, 100 years of Indian Cinema Awards 1995, and ‘Dil to Pagal Hai’ 1997.

Once in Sydney he continued his dance training through casual dance classes at Sydney Dance Company. He performed Bollywood shows with various dance groups and some of the big corporate events included Macquarie Bank, Clayton Utz, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Gaden Lawyers, Mitsubishi Awards, Thai Airways, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Cure For Life, Sydney Film Festival, Inspirations Management, Fundraiser Event for Mardi Gras 2006, MTV Awards 2008, Miss India Australia 2006, Heyy Babyy Premiere.

Having trained and experienced first hand bollywood training in the heart of Mumbai, Kaizad and Khursheed formed their own group “Bollywood Sensations” in 2007 to explore and reinvent the various styles within bollywood in Australia.

Director & Assistant Choreographer

Always encouraged by her parents in whatever activity she chose to do, Khursheed was introduced to the world of dance in Dubai and Mumbai through ballet teachers Veenu Vijayaratna and Firoza Lali . Upon migrating to Australia, she diverted off into Martial Arts, namely Shotokan Karate and Wing Chun Kung Fu, as well as Yoga.

Through socially dancing salsa, Khursheed was re-introduced to dance and eventually started performing for Brazilian Fantasy - one of Sydney's main Samba groups, followed by many others.

A few years later she joined Kaizad Panthaki who involved her in Bollywood shows and eventually started performing Bollywood with him and various dance companies in Sydney. In 2007 Khursheed and Kaizad formed Bollywood Sensations, a group of their own with their own unique choreographies and creations. She now manages and performs with the group, as well as assists Kaizad in choreographing items for their shows.

Khursheed has also starred in Bollywood movies such as ‘Heyy Babyy’ as a dancer, ads for Sony India 2007 and was one of the feature dancers for Uncle Ben’s Indian Sauces ad for the UK. She has starred on the Sydney Weekender show for Posh Spice's feature and has performed and choreographed for the Sydney Festival First Night in 2010 with the troupe, continuing to dance for major events such as the Swarovski launch in 2010, as well as working overseas and interstate in dance.
Khursheed is a qualified Acupuncturist, Ayurveda aromatherapist and Clinical aromatherapist as well as a Bowen practitioner and operates her clinic and business with Farida Irani and her family at Subtle Energies, in West Pennant Hills www.subtleenergies.com.au. She was also the Event co-ordinator for Ayurveda Yoga Australia, along with Farida (Founder), Nekzad (Event Manager) and Sheriar Irani for the 2nd International Ayurveda and Yoga Conference April 2009 www.ayaustralia.org and is the product training manager for the new Subtle Energies' skin care line.

Khursheed has indulged in various styles of dance, such as Jazz, Afro-contemporary and Funk. She has had some training in Kuchupudi by Shri Raghavan Nair, from the Indian Dance Centre, as well as being recently introduced to the style of Bharatnatyam by Anandavalliji from Lingalayam Dance Company, both Indian Classical styles of dance, which fulfil her desire to stay linked with Indian art and culture. Still interested in learning she has touched on contemporary dance as well as hip hop. She has also trained under Natalie Reis Zeller as a salsa instructor and has taught salsa for Auslatin under her guidance.

Nerissa began performing at a young age but only discovered the power of Bollywood 5 years ago!

She has has completed an Arts degree in Music Theatre Performance and an Advanced Diploma in Events & Music Management and has worked on many professional musicals, special events and awards nights in areas from ticketing to production management and artist management.

Nerissa has previously been an Events Manager and also worked as an Associate Agent for a theatrical agency and is currently the Talent Agent for the Talent Company of Australia, a division of the Childrens Performing Company of Australia. 

In 2008, Nat graduated from WAAPA with a BA Music Theatre. He is also a graduate of the Singer, Dancer, Actor course (NIDA) and the full time program at Plie, Groove and Shuffle.

Since graduating, Nat has appeared in Crazy For You and The King & I (The Production Company), Floyd Collins (Meredith Shaw Productions), Pirates of Penzance (Opera Australia) and, in 2008, was thrilled to share the stage with Hollywood legend, Debbie Reynolds, in Irene (Peach Productions). He also had the exciting opportunity of creating the role of The Stingray for a workshop production of Crikey, It's a Steve Irwin Musical.

In 2010, Nat toured three stage productions, recorded a CD and filmed two DVDs for The Wiggles. He is currently touring the childrens musical, The Gruffalo (Christine Dunstan Productions), playing the title role of The Gruffalo.

Nat is also one third of the cast and creative team behind comedy series, Wheels of a Dream.

Allyce moved to Sydney after graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor of Arts. She thoroughly enjoyed her time there with roles including the vivacious Ado Annie in Oklahoma! with Jill Perryman; the sweet yet sexy nurse in Hello Again; as well as Sweeney Todd, West Side Story and Blood Brothers.

Prior to Waapa, Allyce was already well established among the WA entertainment industry, having performed at corporate events and functions since a young age. She has studied jazz, tap and ballet, as well as vocal training in both classical and music theatre.
Her highlight so far has been having the pleasure of performing alongside Debbie Reynolds in Peach Productions Irene in 2008.
In the last few years, Allyce has enjoyed touring Australia and Asia with the children's entertainment group Hi-5! and can be heard as the voice for Chats and Jup Jup on their latest tv series.

She is currently thrilled to be touring Australia with the cast of Wicked the Musical!

Jordan Johnson, born in California, of Black American and Native American decent, has danced and performed with professional troupes since she was a little girl. Growing up in the diverse Black, Asian and Hispanic environment of Pomona California, Jordan very early gained a deep respect for the diverse culture behind dance and music. Her father, being a Navy man, meant that Jordan was able to travel all over the world as a teen, working and dancing with different cultural groups respectfully learning the history, stories and foundations of many music forms and dances including, Afro Cuban, L.A. Salsa, Samba, Cha Cha, traditional Indonesian, Bollywood, and West African.

 Jordan has worked as a Presenter in the Philippines hit show “ASAP” and was the Emcee in the successful Pilipino girl group “Girl Talk”. Since moving to Australia permanently, Jordan has worked with the Hip Hop music promoter, Sling Shot, with some of the biggest Hip Hop names like Black Eyed Peas, The Roots and Xibit.
Jordan has studied Film and Television at Edith Cowan University and works as a dance teacher, commercial dancer, choreographer for stage, film and television. She has 5 instructional DVDs for Salsa, Bachata and ladies styling that are sold worldwide and has represented Australia for Salsa at the world championships in Puerto Rico, Miami, and L.A. Jordan has danced with many Australian leading artists and has had many television and TVC appearances including Merrick and Rosso, So YouThink You Can Dance, Good Morning Australia, Tina Arena Live, and the film The Mask.

A past student of both WAAPA and VCA Dean has performed in many shows around the country, including David Atkins’ HAIR, EUROBEAT (The Eurovision Musical), the world premiere of Martin Croft’s SHIP OF FOOLS, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and alongside MARINA PRIOR in the Art Centre’s MORNING MELODIES concert series. More recently Dean has performed the romatic lead Roger in A NEW BRAIN (Octave Theatre 2006) and won rave reviews for his portrail of Pan in BAT BOY at Chapel Off Chapel (2008). Besides performing voiceovers, and at corporate events, he has toured the country performing in many children’s musicals, made an appearance in the controversial first series of UNDERBELLY (Channel 9/Screenwise) and hosted a television series XSCAPE for Optus Vision. Dean over recent years has gained recognition as a photographic producer, agent and publicist for one of Australia's premier agencies, Missbossyboots, creating campaign for clients as diverse as Mimco, Melbourne Central, Slurpee, Telstra and Amstel.

Andrea’s dancing experience began with classical ballet for 15 years, before she extended her dance training into the fields such as lyrical jazz, contemporary and hip hop. She has attended schools such as DanceWorld501 and Robert Sturrock’s Industry School of Dance, where she has performed in several corporate functions, weddings and local stage productions. Just having recently joined Bollywood Sensations, Andrea has now extended her dance repertoire to include Bollywood and is enjoying performing to new audiences.

Gerard has been dancing since 2003 and it’s his passion. He started off with just taking lessons once a week at a dance school in his local area of Tullamarine and has been dancing ever since. He started off with learning Hip hop, but then went for a different approach and learned Latin American and Ballroom. Eversince then, he knew that he wanted to do nothing more but, DANCE! Throughout his high school years, he was involved with the schools musical productionssuch as 'Grease' and 'Fame' (where he took on lead roles), and he also entered the Rockesiteddfod Challenge with his school, where he also had main roles and helped to choreograph some of the routines. The Rock Eisteddfod also included 5,000 audience members, which was his biggest crowd yet.

Gerard has his Certificates II & IV in Dance and Business & Event Management and Certificates IV in Performance. Throughout both his courses he went throughvarious styles including, Hip Hop, Krump, Jazz, Ballet/Lyical, Latin American, Afrikaan, Contemporary, Breakdancing, Pop/Locking, Cheerleading and Acrobatics. He had competed in many Hip Hop Competitions with his schools dance crew "ICE" who also managed to win various school divisions. He then took the initiative to start his own dance crew ( K.2.D.) just for fun, won a competition and performed in many gigs throughout Melbourne. He is now a part of Detour Dance Company, where he competes in various competitions, and hasalso been very successful. He has recently just stepped up as a choreographer for his dance crew and aspires to become a well known dancer/performer throughout the dance community!

Gerard has always had a love for Bollywood coming from an Indian background. This style being a major part of his culture and roots, has always captivated him. He then found about Bollywood Sensations, and is loving each and every moment spent with the crew. Gerard hopes to govery far with the dance group and can't wait to give everyone a taste of what is, Bollywood!!

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