Achinta McDaniel

Achinta S. McDaniel is a pioneer of contemporary East Indian dance in the United States, working as a leading choreographer on both screen and stage for over a decade.  Graduating from NYU in 1999, she founded blue13 dance company, and has since enjoyed great success in creating live, critically acclaimed dance productions in her signature style, Bollywood-Tech™, along with mixed-genre Modern dance, internationally.  Her work with blue13 has sold out audiences from LA and New York City to Las Vegas, Paris, and Morocco.  McDaniel is regarded as an expert on Indian and Bollywood dance, providing choreography and consultation to the film industry, television, and entertainment companies around the world.  She has worked with celebrities including Dustin Hoffman, Chris Kattan, Beau Bridges, and Bollywood actors Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, and Nandana Sen, and continues to work as an industry leader in commercials, films, and music videos in all styles of dance.

 
A prolific choreographer, performer, and instructor, McDaniel’s powerful and fresh style of movement encompasses strong technique from ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, and hip-hop to Bollywood, Bhangra, and classical Indian Kathak. McDaniel is Los Angeles’ most well-know an sought-after Bollywood dance instructor, teaching her signature dance classes with The Blue School all over the city and throughout the U.S.  McDaniel was also a 2008 Horton Dance Award nominee in the choreography – long form category for her epic “Six.Fifteen and Everything Senseless.”  She is represented by DDO Artists Agency.  More information on McDaniel and her company work can be found at www.blue13dance.com.

Achinta's choreography reel: http://www.youtube.com/blue13dancecompany