Amina Khayyam Dance Company

Shyam Dattani (he/him) is a London-based mover and maker whose practice is grounded by strong technique, training and choreographic thinking, as well as trying to shift thinking regarding the innate gender roles within ‘Kathak’- the form he is trained in.  

He has been training with Urja Desai Thakore at Pagrav Dance Company from 2016 and was the South Asian Dance category winner of BBC Young Dancer 2017, performing as a grand finalist at Sadler’s Wells. Since then, he has worked extensively with leading South Asian dance choreographers and companies in the UK & beyond, including Akademi, Amina Khayyam Dance Co, Beeja and SRISHTI, touring both nationally and internationally.  Dattani combines his unique perspective as a queer diasporically-trained dancer and love for costuming in his choreography, and has received seed commissions from Sampad Arts, Akademi, Without Walls and The Mehfil Project to create work.