Urvil Shah

Urvil Shah has been working as a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher for over ten years. He has taught around 2,000 dance pupils and students to date, both in his home country of India and abroad. He has also been engaged by various internationally successful contemporary dance companies, including the Akram Khan Company (UK), Club Guy & Roni (Netherlands), the Boris Eifman Ballet (Russia), the Imperfect Dancers Company (Italy) and the Navdhara India Dance Theatre (India). During this time, he has appeared on stage in over 250 performances across around 15 countries. Most recently, he created a piece for the world’s largest choreography competition, the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition in the Netherlands. In India, he has appeared in various films and collaborated on these projects with companies such as Netflix, Apple, Facebook and others. Since the 23/24 season, he has been a member of the MiR Dance Company whilst continuing to pursue his own choreographic projects. For the 26/27 season, he will remain with the Gelsenkirchen-based company, now known as TanzGelsenkirchen, under the direction of Muhammed Kaltuk.