PIA SUTARIA
Founder & Artistic Director | India / United Kingdom
Pia Sutaria is a graduate of the “Royal Academy of Music” where she was a recipient of the Disney Theatrical Scholarship and is also a registered teacher with the “Royal Academy of Dance”, London. Most recently, Pia played the principal role “Mala” in the UK tour of the musical “Bombay Superstar” and also performed with the Welsh National Opera’s “Migrations”, and “Settling” at the Criterion Theatre, London.
Pia has performed in India and Internationally for over a decade and has toured internationally with “Navdhara India Dance Theatre” in Turkey, Israel, Canada, USA, and Japan. A soloist at the, “National Centre for the Performing Arts” and the, “Royal Opera House”, in Mumbai, Pia has also represented global brands like Dove, Jockey, Puma, and Nike as a recognised Ballerina in India. She recently gave a TEDx talk on dance and classical ballet in India.
In 2018, Pia founded the “Institute of Classical and Modern Dance” to fill the deep void that existed for vocational training for young dancers in India. As a result, Pia’s vision is to make vocational training in dance accessible to young artists. Moreover, to make Ballet, an otherwise elitist art form, to be within the grasp of anyone who wants to pursue it. The school has successfully sent students on scholarships to top performing arts Institutions in Europe, the UK, and USA.
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ARJUN MENON
Creative Director
Arjun Menon’s career in performing arts comprises over 10 years of experience in performing, choreographing and teaching both in India and overseas. He is the Principal dancer of Navdhara India Dance Theatre, the only Indian dance company to travel abroad for contemporary dance. The travel accolades extended from tours in America, Germany, South Africa(Nelson Mandela theatre), Bahrain, Israel (Suzanne Dellal theatre), Turkey, Canada, Mexico and China with performing in more than over 100 theaters across. He has also chaperoned in class audits and dance syllabus and headed a studio of 600 students for The Danceworx Performing Arts Academy. His teaching experience includes dance forms like Jazz, Contemporary, major placement technique (ballet) and Prana paint & flow- a unique sensatising approach that explores movement through connectivity, yoga, breath and touch. He extended his teaching in Theatre Chemnitz, Vuyani dance theatre and undertook various workshops in Canada, Mexico, Turkey and China. Arjun has choreographed for and assisted for stage and cinema with over 7 feature films and many stage productions to his credit.