About the Seven Dancers in 'Colours' dancing 7 colours

Gilles Chuyen is a dancer, actor and choreographer. Trained in France in ballet, modern and contemporary he has been based in New Delhi for the last 13 years. He has been experiencing movement at many crossroads, East and West, dance and theatre, classical and contemporary, research and entertainment, teaching and learning, through various projects who took him all over the world ( Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Pakistan, South Africa, Seychelles, U.K., France, Colombia and Mexico ). After years of experimentation on the link between movement and energy ( especially emotions through his solo Rasa ), guided by the Karmic Research Centre, he found his group, ready to explore with him, to connect to the pure essence of dance.

Tarique Nasim Khan is a dancer and choreographer, who has been trained in various vocabularies like Jazz ( Matt Mattox ), Ballet, modern, contemporary and various partner dancing forms. He is also trained in Pilates and Power Yoga. He has worked with numerous choreographers and directors and has choreographed himself various programs and musicals.
He is also a creative advisor for “First Step”, a Kolkata based dance Company.
Recently he is researching on Kalaripattu.

Charu Shankar is a dancer, actress, TV anchor and choreographer. From 2002 to 2006, she worked at the Danceworx Performing Arts Academy as a core member of the Repertory Company, and a Senior Instructor of Dance ( Jazz and Social Dancing ) at the Academy. She has been working with many choreographers and directors, especially with Dilip Shankar. In 2007, started working with Sensei Rashid Ansari, through his Theater Movement classes and Gilles Chuyen with Contemporary, Jazz, Pas-de-deux and dance meditations, which lead to many productions. She is currently anchoring, researching and ideating the show ‘Workout Victim’ on NDTV’s upcoming channel MetroNation.

Raj Kumar’s first training has been Bollywood dance in Delhi. He has been performing with various troupes and started working with Tarique N. Khan two years ago. He formally joined Gilles Chuyen’s group last year and has been involved in various projects since then : performances in jazz, fusion and contemporary ; teaching dance and fitness programs ; exploring his own dance through dance meditation.

Sheena Chohan. Express yourself is what she believes in ,and performing arts is her vehicle to do just that.
A former Lakme Miss Calcutta, Sheena is a commercial model, theatre artist and dancer. Having endorsed many leading brands, she has also trained under, and worked with some of the best directors of India, in more than two dozen plays, musicals and theatre festivals, performing all across the country. She is trained in Kathak, modern and contemporary as well and hopes to use performing arts to create a better culture, for a better future to live in.
"A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists."

Rea Krishnatraye has been passionate about and actively involved in the arts from her early school days.. Rea’s training in dance began with Ashley lobo. She then went on to join Fernando Aguilera as lead female dancer and member of the company, majoring in Classical Ballet and also mastering Jazz, salsa, Flamenco and Tango. She then trained in contemporary dance and Chhau with “Sadhya” run by Santosh Nair. Rea has also made her mark on national television after performing with and choreographing for cricket celebrity Ajay Jadeja for the Indian version of the international show Dancing with the stars, called “JHALAK DIKHLAJA “.
Currently working as a freelancer , she instructs in ballet, jazz and salsa in Delhi and Gurgaon, apart from working on experimental dance productions, theater and modeling.

Shilpika Bordoloi was dancing when she was three. She still is. And she loves words, spoken or unspoken, and colours, painted or imagined. Trained in the classical form of Manipuri, she holds a bachelor's degree ( Visharad ), in the form. Her forays into other forms have seen her explore the nuances of Bharata-natyam with Padmashree Leela Samson, where she was an part of her troupe, Spanda. Her association with Daksha Sheth was born out of her desire to experiment with other Indian forms of movement and
choreography. At present she is back to perfecting her Manipuri with the Jhaveri sisters and is designing and exploring new directions in movement.
Shilpika also works as a movement therapist and facilitates movement awareness programs for children. This year marks her debut on stage as an actor.

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