Co-founder, Sparq Productions

Metropolis: Calgary

Nation of origin: India

Vishal Malpuria, one of many founders and artistic minds behind Sparq Productions, alongside together with his companion, Tania Lemos Malpuria, has devoted his life to enriching Calgary’s arts scene and Calgary’s South Asian neighborhood, by means of quite a lot of annual productions together with the ONE – World Goes Bollywood, Stampede Bolly Flash Mob, Holi Hungama, Diwali Dhamaaka Dinner gala, Unimaginable India Fest, Academic Dance Applications within the Calgary Board of Training, Calgary Catholic College District, constitution faculties and lots of mor

Malpuria has over 30 years of expertise with the world’s largest movie business, India and has introduced it to Calgary. He’s an enthusiastic and energetic skilled choreographer and director whose mediums embody company instruction, music video choreography and dwell dance efficiency choreography, each nationally and internationally. Having labored with quite a few respected artists inside Bollywood cinema and having the expertise of choreographing and dealing on dwell worldwide live performance performances, Malpuria was thrilled to convey his expertise to Calgary, when he determined to make it his dwelling, 20 years in the past.

He has had the unforgettable alternative of working with Oscar and Golden Globe winner A.R. Rahman of Slumdog Millionaire, in addition to to open for Michael Jackson, for his live performance in Mumbai, India. He and his companion have been the one Bollywood choreographers chosen to place ahead a group for Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II, on the 2005 Alberta Centennial Celebrations held in Edmonton.

It was additionally an honour for him to be bestowed the Queen’s Golden Jubilee pin in Calgary. In 2015, he obtained the South Asian Excellence Award for Cultural Icon. On November 19, 2022, he was honoured with the South Asian Inspiration Award for Excellent Achievement in Arts, Tradition and Leisure. He’s deeply honoured to have just lately been awarded the Immigrants of Distinction Awards 2023 for Visible & Performing Arts on November 2, 2023

Malpuria has been a fighter all his life, however extra so when issues took a downturn in 2015 on the medical entrance and he was placed on the transplant record for a coronary heart. With sheer blessings and gratitude, he obtained a coronary heart on September 27, 2015. He fought his option to power again once more and bought proper into the neighborhood, educating and producing occasions.

Past his artistry, he’s lively in youth engagement, cultural inclusivity and neighborhood outreach, supporting charities like Canadian Transplant Affiliation, Calgary SCOPE Society, Canadian Crimson Cross, Youngsters Up Entrance, YYCharity, Bullying.org and the Solar Life Arts + Tradition Cross by means of the Calgary Public Library Basis.