Dancing is like oxygen to me. It sets me free. About 24 yrs ago, I got into the art of learning classical dance & to this day, I am a trained Odissi dancer. I am fortunate enough to represent my state Odisha & my country India in many dance platforms…
WELCOME TO MY WORLD OF MOVEMENT, DANCE, AND LOVE! It all started 8 years ago when fire dancing was still a new concept in India. I was very drawn to the old-school style of psychedelic trans music. I used to love dancing to it. The stage was always mine…
Ever since my parents saw that I always moved to any tune or just danced in excitement they decided to put me in for dance classes. This came with a hope that if I turned out unsuccessful in the conventional jobs out there, I could always teach dance and earn…
Sarena Beriwala, co-founder of IndieFlow, is a flow artiste, fire performer and theatre practitioner. As a professional performer, Sarena Beri dances with both fire and LED props to spread flow arts and movement culture and performs at festivals and events across the country. Her main props are the Fire Fans,…
It was my mother who envisioned a dancer in me. She was an excellent singer and my father used to play Tabla. This daily household euphoria of this art casted a spell on me when I was just 4 years old. She noticed me dancing Bihu (folk dance of Assam)…
It was my mother’s passion for arts, that made me what I am today. She put me into dance and music as soon as I crossed seven. I was learning Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Carnatic vocal at once, can’t really recall if I was interested or not back then, but I…
As Maa always narrates, I started grooving to music way before I started walking…. My dance journey began with me dancing away all day, in every space, to any music, in any circumstance, to express any emotion. Maa and Baba soon knew that my dancing needed some formal channelling and…
I have danced since my childhood but belly dancing just happened after I came to Bangalore. My Maa tells me that when I was a kid I used to stand in front of her dressing table and start dancing to random songs. Around that time, I started receiving formal training…
Hello, I am Priya Oza, a professional Belly Dance Artist from Bangalore. A very short formal introduction for the rest of the world who do not know much about me. I grew up in Nagpur, Maharashtra where people were only considered successful in their lives if they were either an…
Hello! I am Sanjana Sharma, a belly dancer from Mumbai! Here’s a short formal introduction: Sanjana Sharma is a Mumbai based belly dancer. She has been learning and teaching from the past eight years. She initially trained at Veve dance for three years, after which she completed a belly dance…
This is Laavanya Ghosh a 20 year old budding odissi dancer from Kolkata, India. Previously I had been trained under the guidance of Smt Nandini Ghoshal and presently I am a disciple of Guru Smt Poushali Mukherjee and undergoing my training under her guidance. I am presently an Empanneled Doordarshan…
My journey as a Bharatanatyam dancer started at a young age of five. My mother initiated me into the art form when u was rather young. She believes that art has the power to define a person’s personality, makes them confident and completes them. She never had a chance to…
My mother tells me when I was 3 her aunt was singing this song and while she sang Yeh mera dil pyar ka deewana….. To their surprise I sang the latter part ‘Deewana deewana pyar ka parwana’ I am in love with Helen’s moves and she never fails to inspire…
I’m a flow artist and professional fire performer based in Bangalore, going by the stage name of Yacobeh. Flow Arts are a relatively new prop-based movement discipline that incorporates aspects of dance, juggling and martial arts. It’s a fun, challenging and meditative practice that has multiple benefits for both your…
My Story with flow arts started when I was in 6th grade in Mangalore , I had joined a local gym that taught traditional Indian Martial Arts which included fire spinning mostly with Wooden Staff or Steel Pipes having wound cloth material that would be set on fire . I…
Dance has chosen me since I was a kid. It has come my way a couple of times, but I just started it cause it gave me happiness. I still remember the first time learning dance standing out of a dance class,looking at my sister dance. I was nearly 3…
Dance has been a part of my life from a very long time. I started my technical dance training in Bharatanatyam at a tender age of 8 and graduated from the Nalanda dance research centre, Mumbai in 2007. I can safely say that my relationship with dance is one of…
In the beginning, I just thought dancing was cool so I never really took it seriously. It took me about 3-4 years to know the true value of hip-hop dance and what the lifestyle around it meant. I liked how hip-hop artists never feel shy to express themselves and their…
TEACHING ME TO ‘JUST BE’ Yes, it was a calling from within! Important decisions were to be taken, or maybe I should say, ‘life decisions’ were to be taken, and YES, the decision I took then, brings me to where I am today. Do you have a strong calling from…
