Learn Bollywood Dance Online - Open to All

The highlights of this course include -

• History of Bollywood and Introduction to Stretch - Familiarising students with the history of Bollywood and body conditioning
• Learning a combination of steps with Bollywood dance style - Dancing similar steps on an entire song whilst understanding the music
• Connection of rhythm with styling - Inculcating steps with a variety of expressions used according to the music and revising the entire choreography
• Introduction to different types of music - Inculcating different forms of the beat in Bollywood dance followed by the main choreography
• Understanding body movements with music - Learning a combination of steps in Bollywood including isolations followed by the main choreography
• Coordination of beats with steps and use of expression - Understanding the musicality and dancing out the choreography which will include a breakdown of steps and styling.
• Revision of steps with musicality - Revising the entire choreography whilst focussing on musicality
• Inculcating flexibility and strength - Learning a combination of steps of Bolly Hop which involves flexibility
• Coordination of body alignment with rhythm - Coordinating the steps with rhythm in the choreography
• Revision of steps with expressions - Inculcating appropriate expressions according to the music and revising the entire choreography
• Introducing levels in choreography - Learning different types of levels to be inculcated in the main choreography
• Bollywood fusion - Understanding the musicality and dancing out the Bollywood choreography.
• Introducing old school hip hop with Bollywood music - Inculcating the old school hop on any Bollywood song medley
• Coordination of body alignment with the beat - Recapitulation of alignment on the beat and familiarizing students with rhythm
• Combination of steps - Learning a combination of steps with the Funk dance style 
• Inculcating turns and waves - Dancing similar steps on an entire song whilst keeping the technique intact
• Revision of steps understanding the rhythm - Inculcating appropriate expressions according to the music and revising the entire choreography
• Funk fusion with Bollywood - Inculcating different forms of the beat in Bolly funk dance followed by the main choreography
• Understanding levels in choreography - Learning the combination of steps in Funk including levels followed by the main choreography
• Developing patterns of Funk and Bollywood - Understanding the musicality and dancing out the choreography which will include Bolly Funk styles.
• Each class will be divided into 3 parts: Warm up & Stretches, and Choreography.
• The song for each choreography will be decided before each class. The duration of the song will be 1.5 - 2 minutes.
• Students who would like to explore other dance forms can check out Yukti’s courses - Online Jazz Dance Course and Online Contemporary Dance Classes. 

About the Teacher

Yukti Bhatnagar is a Dance Instructor, Yoga and Wellness Coach. She has more than 10 years of experience in different dance styles like Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz Funk, Bollywood, Whacking under reputed dance companies/instructors in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Canada. She has also pursued Dance Movement Therapy from Kinections, New York.

Yukti has worked on different projects as a choreographer in Contemporary Arts Week, Grand Finale of Rum Jhum dance reality show at Ficci Auditorium (Delhi), World Dance Day at Sri Ram Centre, and for Bengali festivals in Kolkata to choreograph Indian contemporary pieces.

Yukti has worked as a Senior dance instructor for several schools and institutions. She has judged TV show Nach Dil Se and several other online events such as Rise Eve Dance Centre, India.

For Yukti dance has always been about experimenting with different dance styles and maintaining versatility as an artist. She has collaborated with ipassio to share all her knowledge with dance enthusiasts in India and abroad.