Danish Bhandara has been performing with us since 2020!
Danish Bhandara is a professional dancer, actress, choreographer & dance teacher. She has over 12 yrs of training in Kathak (a Classical Indian dance form), Bollywood dance, & Raqs Sharqi (Belly dance). In 2017 she graduated from UCLA with a BA in World Arts & Cultures- emphasis in Dance. Danish has performed at Disney CA Adventures & Disney Animal Kingdom with Blue 13 Dance Company for which she has also been dance captain. Some of her other notable work include dancing LIVE on KTLA 5’s Morning News, A.R Rahman’s Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, pop stars’ Latto & Anne Marie’s music video I Just Called , the launch of Netflix series: We Speak Dance, and choreographing for the play West Bollywood written by Aruna Harjani, directed by Kiff Scholl . As a South Asian performing artist & educator Danish cares deeply about authentic representation, equity, & increasing access to multicultural arts education. She hopes to continue to help these causes through her work.
Ishika Muchhal joined in 2023!
Ishika Muchhal is an LA-based Indian American storyteller and artist. With a BFA in Acting from CalArts and over 19 years of training in many styles of singing and dancing, she strives to create art through a decolonial, intersectional, and mixed-media lens. A strong advocate for authentic, multi-dimensional representation, she received the California Arts Council ‘Individual Artist Fellow’ grant for her interview series A QISSAA with Ishika: Quintessential and Inspiring Stories of South Asian Artists. Alongside performing, Ishika works in numerous capacities across arts administration, political organizing, fundraising and advocacy, and community engagement and is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow. Ishika also loves to travel, create collage art, write, and make eggcelent puns that will surely crack you up. Recent credits: Tiny Little Town (Theatre Movement Bazaar), Silent Hill: Ascension (VO), Seven Hoshi (CalArts), Something in the Air (Hudson), The Fig and the Wasp (CalArts), Dear Mother Moon (Edinburgh Fringe), and The Pomegranate Tree (Chapman Dodge). http://www.ishikamuchhal.com/
Together the two have performed Indian Mythology and Me in over 25 schools, libraries, parks and festivals, serving more than 10,000 kids!
