Bollywood Dance Lessons for All Levels

As Bollywood dance focuses more on choreography, this online course is a short course of 4 weeks. In this span of 4 weeks, the students will learn two short choreographies (Approx 1.5 min each) on two songs of their choice or as recommended by the teacher. Each class is of 60 minutes, and the class would consist of 4 segments:

• Short warm-up (5 - 10 min): It would include light exercises to loosen up the different body parts, some stretches, and body isolation movements.
• Dance technique: (10-15 min): This segment will introduce the students to some dance technicalities commonly used in Bollywood dancing. Though Bollywood dance is freestyle, it is crucial to learn the correct technique to achieve an elegant finishing of the steps. The students would learn footwork variations, hand gesture formations, hip isolation movements, and coordination between hands and feet.
• Choreography (30 min): This segment would hold the significant focus of the class, as choreography is the core of Bollywood dancing. Students will learn rhythmical dance steps that compliment and reflect the lyrics of the chosen song. Students learn how to incorporate the taught dance techniques into the choreography. This segment would involve a lot of movement, energy, expression, and of course, a lot of fun!
• Closing (5min): The last minute of the class will focus on finishing movements, revision, or discussing doubts the student raises.

About the Teacher: Parijat Naik is a Choreographer and performer based in Mumbai, currently residing in the Netherlands. She is the founder of a dance company headquartered in Mumbai, India. 

For the past ten years, she has been choreographing and performing at various festivals and concerts all over India and in countries like Sweden, Hong Kong, and China. She has also conducted workshops in The Netherlands, France, and Singapore. 

Parijat has choreographed and performed at the famous Kala Ghoda festival, Mumbai, and also choreographed and conducted dance workshops for corporate companies such as BNP Paribas, HDFC, L&T, Phillips, Accenture, and Rotary club. 

Soul Feet dance company's choreography got telecasted on television channels such as Colours tv, Sony pal, and Doordarshan. For the past eight years, Soul Feet has been the leading dance troupe for the famous "Bollywood tours" that mark the character of Bollywood tourism in Mumbai. 

Parijat’s artistic practice strongly focuses on storytelling, culture, and non-verbal communication. She constantly tries to incorporate innovative methods in her works and firmly believes that art is a participatory and collective experience. 

Given her background in Architecture and recent research-based Masters in Performing Arts at Fontys University in The Netherlands, she is committed to continuing research in finding methods to redefine the position of traditional classical and folk dance in modern society.