Eshan Hilal is a male Indian belly dancer. He grew up in a Muslim family in

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

, India. He trained in the classical Indian dance technique, ''

kathak Kathak ( hi, कथक; ur, کتھک) is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. It is the classical dance from of Uttar Pradesh. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the traveling bards in ancient northern Ind ...

'', the folk technique, '' kaalbelia'', and in

belly dance Belly dance (Egyptian Arabic: رقص بلدي, translated: Dance of the Country/Folk Dance, romanized: Raks/Raas Baladi) is a dance that originates in Egypt. It features movements of the hips and torso. It has evolved to take many different f ...

. He performs professionally as a belly dancer. In 2017, he walked the runway at NIFT cultural festival in designs by Devanshi Tuli, Tamanna Mehra, Sonal Bhardwaj and Mansi Dua.

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