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CREATIVE DIRECTOR @ishamidancecompany
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Our new dance film ENOUGH is making its premiere at Dance ThrillFest, and we’re thrilled to share it with you on Halloween night. 🎟️ Tickets are on sale now, link in bio.

@dancethrillfest
📍 The Big Roxie, San Francisco
📅 Saturday, October 31

Choreographed, directed, and scored by @akhildances
Filmed and edited by @honnafzal
Featuring @akhildances, @_amitdances, @ashna.dansingh, @ishika_dance, @saffatt, @sanjana.kerketta, @shivani_sawai29, @yuka.tiii

#ishamidancecompany #dancefilm #dancethrillfest #indiancontemporary

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November Workshops in Fremont with @akhildances

Link to register in bio!

$30 per class / $45 for both

No one turned away due to lack of funds

🏠: @desidancecommunity
📍: Fremont @solstudiosllc

#desidancecommunity #Fremont #dance #modernclassical #ishamidancecompany

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Extravaganzaaaaa!🦚✨

Throwback to “House of Helen” from our Fall 2024 Showcase!

#MonaKhanCompany #LOVEBOLLYWOOD #bollywooddance #showcasereel #americasgotbollywood

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Thank you so much for the great class!❤⁡
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⁡@akhildances ⁡you are so sweet!!❤❤⁡
⁡Please come back to nyc soon!⁡
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⁡ #オリッシー #オリッシーダンス #オリッシーフュージョン

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🎥 Festival Alum and former WAW Intern Akhil Joondeph shares the inventive and dexterous work of translating dance films from handheld devices to the big screen.

#WAWDF #Feedback #DanceFilm

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💠”Natarang” is an ode to the resilience and innovation of the hereditary dancing communities that endure to this day.

Choreographed by @akhildances and performed at MKC’s Spring Showcase 2023!

#MonaKhanCompany #LOVEBOLLYWOOD #Natarang #ShowcaseHighlights #americasgotbollywood

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What happens when sharing gives way to greed?

This piece explores balanced and imbalanced ecosystems, human consumption, and the consequences of taking more than we need. What begins with four bodies sharing a single resource in harmony slowly unravels as one dancer takes more and more, until the resources they fought to possess become a cage.

A reflection on community, power, and the destruction that can come from disrupting the balance.

"Primal Rhythms" at @factsf
📷: @robbiesweeny
Directed by: @ishika_dance
Choreography: @akshay_radia @_amitdances @ishika_dance
Dancers: @akshay_radia @ishika_dance @sakshi.prabhu @ekta.doshii @akhil.dances
Music: @akhildances
Costume: @ishika_dance
#ishamidancecompany #contemporarydance #liveperformance #bayareadance

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Our Creative Director and Sound Designer, Akhil Joondeph, on scoring "Pehchaan," Ishami's first full length production.

@akhildances

It started as a handful of chords and a ticking clock, and it kept evolving long after opening night, trimmed here, expanded there, never quite finished. Which is why the show still carries voices it started with, and why one of them, singer and songwriter Zahara, has an Isadora Duncan Award to show for it.
Swipe through for the story behind the sound.

#ishamidancecompany #indiancontemporary #behindthemusic #pehchaan

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NYC, Saturday 10/10 📍 Open-level class with Akhil, 1:45 - 3:15 PM at IMGE Studios.

Akhil’s choreography has been featured at SF Pride MainStage and World of Dance LA, among others. He’s performed for the Golden State Warriors and at the SF Ethnic Dance Festival, with work across the US, Canada, and India.

Link in bio to learn more about Akhil and sign up.

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Watch @ishamidancecompany perform at SALA on Sat, Sep 26. We will activate the courtyard to create an immersive experience and present excerpts from our award-winning production “Pehchaan.”

Buy your tickets today for a beautiful weekend of literature, art and community.
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#SALA #ishamidancecompany #bayarea #arts

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SATURDAY 10/10 Akhil Pop-Up🌀

Choreo drawn from Odissi, contemporary, and street styles. Open to all levels. Link in bio to sign up.

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This is Ishami.

A glimpse into the movement, stories, and artists that make up Ishami Dance Company.
Ishami Dance Company is a contemporary dance company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, blending South Asian and global dance forms with modern storytelling. Centering queerness, women’s voices, and experiences of the South Asian diaspora, Ishami creates work that sparks conversations through art.

Founders and directors: @amitdances_, @ishika_dance.
Creative Director: @akhildances

Edited by: @honnafzal
#IshamiDanceCompany #IndianContemporary #SouthAsianDance #BayAreaDance #QueerArt

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