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 Shiamak Davar is an Indian choreographer. He was born on October 19, 1961 into a Parsi family.
He started his career as a chorus dancer. He was trained at the Pineapple Dance Center and Guilford School of Acting and Dance in London and has also attended master classes at Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre and The Broadway Dance Center in New York and Third Wave Dance House in San Francisco. In 1989, he organized a group of potential dancers and formed the Shiamak Davar Dance Company who would perform with him for the live shows. In 1992, he established his own school of dancing called Shiamak Davar Institute for the Performing Arts (SDIPA). The institute offers training mainly in western dance forms like Jazz, HipHop, Rock’n Roll, Salsa and others.
He has choreographed various stage shows, Indian Movie Awards Nights and Bollywood movies like Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Taal (1999), Kisna (2005), Bunty Aur Babli (2005), I See You (2006), Dhoom 2 (2006) and others. He has also represented India at various world events including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne (2006), Indo-Japan Friendship Year 2007 innaugural event in Tokyo and Indian Economic Forum (2007) in Rome, Italy.
Shiamak is also a gifted singer and has performed with the legendary singer and song writer ‘Sting’. He has also launched pop albums of his own like Mohabbat Karle Le (1997) and Dil Chahe (1999). He won the best music video award for album Dil Chahe (1999) which he directed, designed and choreographed.
He was one of the judges of
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 2 on Sony Entertainment Television channel.
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