Darshan Singh Bhuller – Artistic Director, Choreographer and Film Maker
Darshan was a longstanding member of the world-renowned London Contemporary Dance Theatre from 1979 to 1994, Under Artist Director Sir Robert Cohan, as a dancer, then rehearsal director, choreographer and teacher. He also danced as a member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company in 1991 and was Assistant to the Director of Richard Alston Dance Company from 1994 to 1996.
Darshan has created and directed works for international companies including London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre, CandoCo, Nordic Dance Theatre, CeDeCe, Zero Culture and for Companhia de Bailado Contemporaneo (Portugal). Schools for which he has created work include Northern School of Contemporary Dance, London School of Contemporary Dance, Danshögskolan in Sweden and English National Ballet School. London Studio Centre & Millennium Dance, Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance and New World School of the Arts, Miami, Alvin Ailey school, NYC and Marymount Manhattan Dance Company.
Darshan was appointed Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre in February 2002. During his four years with Phoenix, he revitalised the reputation of the company on the national and international stage earning Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Modern) in the 2006 Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards. After a successful US tour in May 2006, he stepped down as Artistic Director, returning to freelance teaching and directing in the UK and USA.
Darshan has directed numerous dance and music videos since 1985, including The Fall (nominated for BFI innovation award), Harmonica Breakdown for BBC2 and What About Sky (MTV, ITV Chart Show). In 2004, he completed the biographical film, Robert Cohan: Another Place, comprising in depth interviews and unparalleled access to archive material. Darshan was awarded a grant from Dancer’s Career Development fund to study at the Metropolitan Film School in January 2007. In 2018 Das Modell, The Dancer and Lola a 40 minute documentary was presented at the BOLD Film festival in Canberra Australia.
Collaborations with other artists, choreographers, musicians and filmmakers spanning his 40 years in theatre include working alongside Director Micha Bergese to choreograph and direct the Opening Ceremony for the Millennium Dome. As Assistant Director and Choreographer for Shaolin Wheel of Life, an international production with the masters of Kung Fu, Darshan had the honour to meet and work with the Abbot and the Zen Buddhist Monks of the ancient Shaolin Temple of China. Darshan was Choreographer for the opening section of the immensely popular Bollywood awards in Yorkshire IIFA 2007. Darshan also collaborated with admired singer- songwriter, John Martyn in 1993 in London Contemporary Dance Theatre's, Fall Like Rain. Jocelyn Pook who worked with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut composed the music for Darshan's 2003 Requiem, a poignant narrative about a missing child. Barrington Pheloung, who composed music for Inspector Morse, worked with Darshan on the music for Shaolin Wheel of Life in 1999. Graham Dean, a successful painter and friend, collaborated with Darshan on films such as Breaking The Surface, 1985. Music from composer Barry Guy often crops up in Darshan's work, notably in Breaking the Surface, and most recently Caravaggio: Exile and Death.
2009 to 2013 were busy years of guest teaching at Rambert School and The Place (London), New World School of the Arts (Miami) and Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company (Mumbai), Franco Dragone’s company in Macau China, while creating new works for NWSA and Florida State University. His films, Jayne Lee's Dance Down River and a documentaries of Shuffle It Right, Something to do, Roughcut and All American Alston by Richard Alston were launched in 2010, 2012 & 2013 respectively. His work, The Virgin Queen, for NWSA in Miami was chosen for Florida’s Rising Stars showcase performance in 2011, as well as commissioned for the Martha Graham 2 Dance Company programme in April 2014.
2011 to 2013 Served as a board member for CanDoCo Dance Company (UK)
In the autumn of 2011, Darshan created and toured the UK with his full-length work, Caravaggio: Exile and Death with support from the Arts Council of England.
The following summer of 2012, Darshan was invited to be the choreographer for Prometheus Awakes by Graeae, UK's leading disabled theatre company and La Fura Dels Baus, a Spanish based large-scale outdoor theatre company. 

In 2014 Directed and Choreographed "Rites of War" an aerial dance theatre piece for Gravity & Levity. Mapping and Dew Point 68 for Nimbus Dance in the USA.

2016 film work “Das Model, the Dancer and Lola by Singh Productions. Movement director on the f