Past Events

2023

Beyond Bollywood exhibit at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, April

Pakistan Tour - Performances at Karachi Literary Festival, Faiz Festival in Lahore, International Women’s Day event in Islamabad & teaching engagements in Karachi and Lahore, Feb-Mar

Ballet Beyond Borders - Performer, Guest Teacher, Choreographer for Noorani Dance Company, Panelist in Montana, January

2022 

Co-Producer for TEDx DelthorneWomen in Los Angeles, December

Kahani: Reimagining Stories - Performance presented by Mandala South Asian Arts in Chicago, November

Performance & workshop at Gilead Science Diwali event, October

Ballet Beyond Borders - Performer, Guest Teacher, Choreographer for Noorani Dance Company, Panelist in Los Angeles, August

Performance at Montana Folk Festival, July

Pakistan Tour - Performances & teaching engagements in Karachi and Lahore, March

Directed and choreographed kathak solo for member of Noorani Dance Company

2021 (In Person)

Performance at TEDx DelthorneWomen in Los Angeles, December

Auditioned and launched new generation of Noorani Dance Company, November

Collaborator for docu-series pilot with Riyaaz Qawwali in Houston, October

Performer, Guest Teacher & Panelist at Ballet Beyond Borders in Montana, August

Performance at screening of film “I’ll Meet You There” in Los Angeles, July

2021 Virtual Performances

TRANSITION - release of collaborative video as part of Heartistry Video Series, June
Host of Heartistry Video Series, Episode 3: Social Change through heARTivism (part 2), June
Performance for Sadaf Jaffer for Assembly AAPI Celebration, May

Lead Organizer and Performer for Virtual Fundraiser for COVID Relief in India, May
Host of Heartistry Video Series, Episode 2: Social Change through heARTivism (part 1), April 

Live virtual performance following premiere of film I’ll Meet You There, February
Google Arts at Home - virtual performance for employees of Google, January

Virtual performance for Presidential Inauguration event hosted by South Asians for Biden, January

2020 Virtual Performances

Aaj Rang Hai - release of video project as part of Heartistry Video Series, November

Host of Heartistry Video Series, Episode 1: Creativity, Collaboration & Community, November Rukus Avenue Summer Special, July

T2F (the Second Floor) in Pakistan, June

New York Kathak Festival, April

2020

Heartistry Video Series - Episode 1: Creativity, Collaboration & Community

Heartistry Talk Show, podcast hosted by Farah, launches on Rukus Avenue Radio

The Forgotten Empress performed in San Jose and San Francisco

2019

Pakistan Tour - 2 month tour with engagements in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad

Nazaakat aur Taaqat - A Delicate Power - performance by Farah followed by first gala for Noorani Dance

New York Kathak Festival - performance by Farah and Noorani Dance Company

Sacred Sounds of India Festival at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Nassau, Bahamas

Directed and choreographed kathak solo for member of Noorani Dance Company

2018

Pakistan Tour - Performances & Teaching in Karachi & Lahore

I’ll Meet You There (filming of) Lead Choreographer and dancer/actress

The Forgotten Empress at Wellesley College in Boston, MA

Kathak Solo at Richmond Folk Festival in Richmond, VA

Directed and choreographed debut kathak solos for 3 members of Noorani Dance Company

The Forgotten Empress at Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, TX

The Parting - 1947 Revisited premiere at Z Space in San Francisco and at Hammer Theatre in San Jose

Guest Faculty at Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program 

2017

The Forgotten Empress Pakistan Tour - November/December

Ongoing classes at the India Community Center in Milpitas (2015-2017)

Ongoing classes at ODC School in San Francisco (2015-2017)

Guest Faculty at Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program 

Pakistan Tour - teaching and performing in Karachi and Lahore, and site visit to Wagah Border as part of The Partition Project

Performance by Farah and members of Noorani Dance at Annual Maitri Gala, Palo Alto, CA

Consulting Choreographer for theatrical adaptation of Monsoon Wedding directed by Mira Nair at the Berkeley Repertory Theater

2016

Guest Choreographer at Ailey Extension World Dance Program, New York

3 Pakistan Tours (January, March/April, September/October)

Teaching and performing at numerous educational and cultural institutions in the cities of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad - 13 performances and 12 teaching engagements

Guest teaching: Chhandika Institute of Kathak, Boston; UC Santa Cruz Dance Department; Saint Mary’s College, Moraga; Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program 

Silicon Valley premiere of The Twentieth Wife presented by Enacte & Sangam Arts at Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose

Founded Noorani Dance - a cultural arts organization committed to enlightening minds and hearts through teaching Kathak in the U.S. and abroad, presenting and producing collaborative performances of dance, music and theater by Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, collaborating artists, and students of Noorani Dance

2015

Los Angeles premiere of The Twentieth Wife presented by LACMA

Traditional Kathak Solo at Gallo Arts Center, Modesto

World premiere of the The Twentieth Wife at Z Space, San Francisco

1996 - 2014

Member of the Chitresh Das Dance Company (CDDC)

Instructor at the  Chhandam School of Kathak