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About Daniel Phoenix SinghDaniel Phoenix Singh is the Artistic Director and President of Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company is an emerging dance company that performs and presents Indian dance forms, such as Bharata Natyam, and Modern dance, mirroring the multiple identities of second generation South Asians. Singh completed an MFA in Dance, along with a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, from the University of Maryland. He obtained a Laban Movement Analyst Certificate from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, NYC. He finished his undergraduate work in Dance and Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Singh continues his Bharata Natyam training with Guru Meena Telikicherla of Nrityanjali, MD with whom he has studied for several years. He has had the opportunity to work with the leading exponents of the art form including Guru Adayar K. Lakshman, Guru C.V. Chandrasekhar, Guru Jaya Chandrasekhar, and Guru Banumathi. Singh's most recent explorations in dance include the Cuban/Colombian variations of Salsa and Merengue with Javier Varela and Shawn Malone. He is currently on the faculty at Joy of Motion, Maryland Youth Ballet, and Results the Gym. Singh is active in KhushDC, a Washington D.C. organization serving the South Asian LGBT community and its friends, and he is also working on setting up a youth outreach dance program with DARE. His works have been the critic's pick in the Washington City Paper and the Washington Post. The Voice of America will be profiling his dance company in the summer of 2005. |
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