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Recommended age: 4-6 years
What do we do in class?
– We learn how to traditionally start and end a dance class.
– We explore the dance space, move like animals, walk like kings, dance like princesses or zoom through space like fairy tale characters.
– We find some great movements we enjoy! Then we repeat them over the next few classes and embellish them with different moods, mudras, expressions and sounds.
– We learn how to tell the world funny and wise stories from traditional Indian literature (Panchatantra, Janaka tales, folk tales, mythology…) and acquire basic storytelling skills in dance.
– While we move, we playfully acquire some basic elementary movements and rhythms from different Indian dance forms like Bharata Natyam, Kathak, Odissi or other Indian dance forms.
What to wear in class?
Please leave your shoes outside the class room – we dance BAREFOOT🙏 . During winter or on cold days socks with stoppers are acceptable.
Clothes: Anything loose and comfortable: leggings, T-shirts… no jeans, please!
Please tie up long hair to be free to move, turn, jump…👍
General rules
No food allowed inside the class room.
Let’s look nice for class, come with a smile and respect others 😁😉
Mums and Dads are allowed to join their kid(s) in the trial class at no extra cost (not as audience, but as a participants!).
After the trial class, you can purchase a Single class or the 5-Classes-Pass. Should you wish to continue joining your child in class (…because its a fun way of bonding… 😉), you are most welcome! Additional cost for accompanying adult: €5 per class. 😊👍
PLEASE REGISTER BY E-MAIL FOR A CLASS
GET YOUR NAME ON THE CLASS LIST – CLASS PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED!!
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Classes for adults ( Workshop sessions tbc)
learn Indian contemporary dance moves
The concept for the classes is inspired by the work of masters in Indian modern dance like Uday Shankar, Tanushree Shankar, and many others.
We explore a blend of movements rooted in classical Indian dance forms like Bharata Natyam, Kathak, Odissi – and western (modern) contemporary dance.
move to different rhythms
Rhythm is the heart of Indian dance – and there are many different rhythms to try out in different paces – while moving to the music.
dance colourful stories
Indian dance has a phenomenal range of hand gestures (mudras), each with their own meanings, and facial expressions that add a further nuance to the mudra.
We use these tools as well as invent new ones, and also apply the entire body to enhance our message.
