Saffatt Al-Mansoor (He/Him)

Company Artist

Saffatt is a professional dancer, choreographer, and dance educator based in the Bay Area, California. He has trained in several dance forms with a focus on hip hop and its intersection with desi culture. He started his dance journey in Qatar in 2006 after watching some local B-boys dance to hip hop music in his neighborhood. He immediately fell in love with the music and started looking for ways to learn whatever he can through the available resources at the time. Since then, he has spent years researching and understanding the people aspect of hip hop and its deep history from mentors such as Moncell Durden, Mr. Wiggles, Buddha Stretch and B-boy Wicket.

Saffatt has had the opportunity to choreograph for several prominent artists including Adnan Sami, Arjun, Fateh, Toronto Raptors, Noveen Morris and Anirudh Ravichander. He is currently the choreographer for Bohemia who is known as the creator of the genre of music called "Desi Hip Hop". He currently teaches regularly in the Bay Area and other cities across North America. His classes have a focus on working through the music first to understand what created the movement. This leads his students through a whole journey of understanding the people, history and culture of hip hop before they dive into choreography