Theme: New Normal, New Inspirations : You , Artist and the World

𝐖𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 - 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀.

Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action.

Every organization, company, city and nation and citizens everywhere are invited to collaborate with Countdown and take action on climate. It is a movement open to everyone – and everyone has a vital role to play.

DANCE is about connecting with people’s emotions. It’s personal and at the same time, universal. DANCE ARTISTS, as a creative contributor, can not merely pursue their creative aspirations, they can also play a different and necessary role with long-term vision in contributing to the societal impact in terms of the overall health, development, and well-being of our society.

It’s true that 2020 was a year that challenged all of us in so very many ways, but it was also a year of reflection and transformation. While we know that 2021 will find us facing ever more different upheaval, we can also assure you that there will be great artistic to bring us solace, to inspire and enlighten us, and to offer us moments of escape and build your resilience.

We would like to create the boxes for you to think through TEDxBEYONDBollywood which host a virtual event to hear from leading dance artists about what a healthy, abundant, zero-emission future can look like, what role a dance artist can get involved/even rally others to take action and the powerful reasons why this critical moment is the time to act!

𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐆 | 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀 | 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 | 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 | 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍 | 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒
This virtual event provides an opportunity for exploring environmental sustainability in the context of international cultural collaborations which is coming straight to your homes in an all-new digital avatar with a fantastic line-up of 6 amazing dance artists with the aim to stimulate truly global conversations through 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚, bringing people from different countries, culture and communities together to make public awareness on realizing our 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 and even taking actions for positive response to protect and save our planet!

- Online on VIMEO
- Language : English
- Duration : Approximately 1 hour

TEDxBEYONDBollywood
Online
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 000000
Hong Kong

Deepak Stephen (Salsa Twins)

Choreographer, dance performer, event organiser

Salsa Twins (Deepak & Rahul Stephen) Russia/United Kingdom. Twins are explosive entertainers, choreographers, martial artist and successful event organisers, popular in Salsa and Bollywood industry. Taught, performed and represented India over 25 countries. They own successful dance and event management company in Russia, United Kingdom and Cyrus called "Salsa Twins Entertainment" born and brought up in Kerala/India.

Devesh Mirchandani

International-acclaimed dance artist, choreographer in Mumbai India and YouTuber

His YouTube channel is followed by 1.29 million subscribers and his videos have been viewed more than 268 million times as at 26 Dec 2020. His choreographies have gone viral, like the ones for the very popular Bollywood songs Udi Udi Jaye and Lovely. His adaptation of the popular folk dance that is shown in his Ghoomar video – holding currently almost 3 million views, has gone viral and was played on the Indian news channels. In 2020, he created his own online live class platforms with dance tutorials for Remote Learning which keep connected with his students across the globe. Another upcoming initiatives is annual Parampara Concert 2021 in Mumbai organised by Devesh. He is a member of the Indian Film and Television Association Bollywood and part of the choreography team “Dance with Madhuri”. His dance training includes Indian Folk Dances, Kathak and Contemporary – Bollywood dance. His dream is to give platform to others and inspire them to dance and spread love through dance.

Harry Baath

Indian in HK, Brand Ambassador & Certified Instructor at Learn Bhangra

Harry Baath is the founder and choreographer of Funjabi Bhangra Hong Kongand also a Certified Bhangra Instructor under Learn Bhangra App. Funjabi Bhangra is a competitive Bhangra group in Hong Kong established in 2006, we have been performing not just in Hong Kong, but also overseas and recently we represented Hong Kong and participated in Bhangra Dance Off Competition in Malaysia and Red Dot Bhangra Competition in Singapore and we have been awarded Champion for both competitions.

Kinga Malec

Choreographer, Polish dance performer, Brand Ambassador and Certified instructor at Learn Bhangra

From an early age Kinga was fascinated by dance and music. She started at the age of 5 by training figure-skating and classical western ballet dance. Along with ice skating, she has been dancing also traditional Polish folk and national dances for 12 years with the ensemble Varsovia. She started dancing Indian dances in 2008 under Polish dancer Magdalena Niernsee (graduated from Kathak Kendra, New Delhi, India), then continued training under the best Indian gurus in India: Pt. Arjun Mishra in Lucknow, Pt. Birju Maharaj, Mamta Maharaj and Saswati Sen in New Delhi and currently continuing with Smt. Nirupama Rajendra in Bangalore, under whom she graduated presenting a 2 hour classical Kathak solo recital with live music, in March 2019 in Bangalore, India. Kinga has been working for the last 12 years as a dancer, instructor and choreographer of Mohini Dance Group and School in Warsaw, teaching kathak, bhangra and bollywood dance.She gives numerous workshops in the country and abroad.

Swarali karulkar

Celebrity choreographer in New York, Global dance educator and dance/movement therapist.

Originally from Mumbai, Swarali has over 13 years of experience in the Bollywood Industry working with A.R.rahman, Riz Ahmed, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit to name a few. A finalist on Asia's biggest dance reality show - Dance India Dance 4, Swara continued her commercial dance journey through multiple dance reality shows, Off-Broadway & Broadway musicals, IIFA awards, The Stephen Colbert Show, Mystic India - The World Tour and international music videos. She is also the founder of BollyHeels - a one of a kind dance workshop series that combines commercial dancing with dance/movement therapy. Since its conception in 2017, Swara has successfully taught over 90 workshops in 23 different cities across the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, U.K., and India! She has strived to create a space for dancers, to teach them how to stand out and be the lead! She is excited to share her talent, passion, and expertise with you!

Vinatha Sreeramkumar

Choreographer, dance performer, Scientist in Madrid Spain

Vinatha is a professional dancer, performer and choreographer of Bollywood dance styles, Kuthu #dance (South Indian Street style) and Bharatanatyam (South Indian classical dance) and also PhD Molecular Biology Professor. Founder and director of a dance company (with professional dancers for performances and events) and Espacio India, a school of Indian dance and yoga in Madrid. Participation in several important dance festivals in India and Spain apart from launching her own theatre production in Madrid. She has made many appearances on national television. She has taught workshops in different cities in Spain, Morocco, Thailand, Italy, Greece, India and Hungary and has taken her students to India in summer 2018 to be trained with professors in Chennai. She was chosen as Miss India Spain 2012-13 and performed and represented India and Spain in the Miss India Worldwide pageant held in Suriname, South America.