Syed Sallauddin Pasha

Syed Sallauddin Pasha is a Bharatanatyam and Kathak dancer, Choreographer, Actor and Founder, artistic director of Ability Unlimited, Miracle on Wheels and a therapeutic dance theater on Wheelchairs in India. He is recognised for his pioneering theater productions for persons with special needs. In 2007 he received the National Award for the welfare of persons with disabilities in 2007-08 from Pratibha Patil.

Pasha is a Limca Book of Records holder for creating 100 dance theater productions and directing over 10,000 performances with people of different – abilities. His student Gulshan Kumar entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for spinning his wheelchair 63 times in one minute in 2011.

Pasha is a trained and established Bharatanatyam Dancer. He is also an empanelled Bharatnatyam, Kathak and theater artist with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and an 'A Grade' Dancer of Doordarshan, India's National Television Channel. Pasha's group has staged more than 10,000 shows worldwide with disabled dancers, including on International Yoga Day in June, 2015.