Geeta Dias was born and raised in Bombay India the home of Bollywood movies and dance. In 1993 she moved to Miami, Florida where she currently resides. Beginning her dance training at age nine, she studied the classical Indian dance style of Bharatnatyam throughout elementary and high school. She has won awards in several group dance competitions. In 1983 she began studying Kathak another classical Indian dance style while completing a BA from St. Xavier’s College - University of Bombay. While in college she performed many other Indian folk styles of dance like Bhangra, Garba and Dandiya Raas as well as Bollywood. She received her teacher training at the Nritya Jyoti Dance Academy founded by Khurshid Vajifdar Chavda a disciple of Uday Shankar; she also studied under Jeroo Chavda and studied further at Nritya Manjari Dance Academy founded by Shirin Vajifdar. Geeta has been a part of the 2009 and 2010 Miami Dance Festival. Her dance class was featured on FOX’s Deco Drive and she was also featured on NBC’s South Florida Today where her students performed to “Jai Ho” the song from the Oscar winning “Slum Dog Millionaire”. In 2010 her students performed at the Miami Dade Public Library’s “International Art of Story Telling Festival” and at the “Miami Mumbai Night” held at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. Geeta currently teaches Bollywood Dance at Miami Dade Community College. She and her students have performed at events held by the March of Dimes, the Chinmaya Mission in South Florida, the Association of Indians in America – South Florida, the Sindhi Association of South Florida and the Arya Samaj of Miami. She currently teaches Indian Classical, Kathak and Bollywood dance styles.

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