Rashid Ansari
Master Facilitator
Rashid Ansari (b.1958) is a practitioner and teacher in the performing arts, martial arts and various mind-body Wellness integrated disciplines. He holds numerous Black Belts and Master Instructor Accreditation in multiple Martial Arts ( 6th Dan Black Belt in Judo, 5th Dan in Tae Kwon Do, 4th Dan in Ken jitsu, 2nd Dan in Hakkyu Ryu Jiu Jitsu and Daiti Ryu Aikijutsu, Master Instructor in Tai Ji Quan, Hsing I, Ba Gua.
He is an international master instructor in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean martial arts as well as a contemporary and modern dance instructor and choreographer and has delved deeply into Physical Theatre and Theatre Movement, both as a practitioner and a teacher/facilitator.
Has taught UAC Unarmed Combat) to the Armed Forces, Police Departments both India and around the globe. Rashid was a Movement/Tai Chi Chuan Teacher for a number of years at the National School Of Drama.
He founded and is the artistic director of Mobius Strip – a dance theatre performing company and Earth Rhythms – a world music ensemble playing acoustic and ethnic musical instruments. He is also a fire dancer and a didgeridoo player and maker and performs as an actor and dancer.
As a teacher of the performng arts, Rashid has endeavoured to integrate the diverse the range of disciplines he practices, to create a methodology integrating them all and has developed a vocabulary using movement and dance as a medium, the human body as a motif and a pathway to find,express and create.
He has been a senior facilitator specialising in Public Speaking and Self Empowerment and has conducted the Personality Development, Public Speaking and Self Empowerment Program for the Elite School of Modelling in Delhi for a number of years.
His varied skills also keep him much in demand as a workshop coordinator who specialises in physicality and voice/ communication with variouscorporate and media institutions.
As a practitioner, Rashid has performed, directed and choreographed dance theatre and dance pieces both abroad and nationally for various well-known dance companies and individual directors, adding numerous and varied performances to his credit.
Since 2020, Rashid has also been heading Mazdoor Kitchen, an initiative that provided food and other sustenance to the working classes in Northern Delhi
