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📍Bay Area, CA
Building Community one class at a time
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🏠: @ishamidancecompany
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November Workshops in Fremont with @akhildances

Link to register in bio!

$30 per class / $45 for both

No one turned away due to lack of funds

🏠: @desidancecommunity
📍: Fremont @solstudiosllc

#desidancecommunity #Fremont #dance #modernclassical #ishamidancecompany taken in SOL Studios by @desidancecommunity

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2 days ago

Opening The Archives: Comment and I’ll DM you the deets.

Dance Teacher Advice - “The Responsibility of a Dance Teacher: Tradition, Legacy, and Pedagogy” 📚👟

Reflections from 2024:

It’s a profound responsibility being a dance teacher, emphasizing that it goes beyond teaching steps to preserving tradition and culture.

Sharing some insights for younger teachers on becoming a master teacher through time, trial, and developing one’s own pedagogy, and express gratitude for my last class in the Bay Area, highlighting the beautiful full moon class! 🌕✨

Thank you @ishamidancecompany @desidancecommunity @_amitdances @saffatt CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED 🫂❤️

✅Missed taking my class?
JOIN ONLINE ONLY: Waacking Foundation + Bollywhack Choreo series.

📅Every other Tuesdays + Sundays - check the calendar inside the @Houseofsuraj Skool.

📹 @_amitdances @saffatt
👨🏽‍💻 edit: me!

#masterclass #onlinedanceclass #waacking #bollywaack by @desidancecommunity

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10 days ago

The ARCHIVES are open! My last @bollywaack masterclass in the Bay was so special 🌕✨🧚🏽‍♀️

COMMENT “apsara” or “link” below and I’ll DM you the YouTube video of this class and the link to join @houseofsuraj ONLINE to learn this archival choreography.

TAG A FRIEND WHO’S IN THIS VIDEO 🤩

This night Jan 2024,
It was a full moon, we danced like enchanted fairies under the moon light and this @desidancecommunity @ishamidancecompany were some of the warmest most welcoming Desi dance community I’ve ever been invited to share my knowledge with. 📚

Thank you for having me. My heart was full too! 🌕❤️✨

📹 @saffatt @_amitdances

#bollywooddance #bollywhack #bollywaack #waackingchoreography #dancereel taken in San Jose, California by @desidancecommunity

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11 days ago

Every city has brought its own energy, and San Francisco didn’t hold back.🫶🏾

We had the best time at our ✨Best of the Best✨Bollywood dance class, led by @amitdances. And then @amrynkhurana, who plays Sumi in the film, surprised everyone by joining in and dancing right alongside the class.🥹

Watching friends and OG dancers from the BOB era come together through dance has been one of the sweetest parts of this journey. San Francisco, thank you for showing up with so much heart.♥️

📌 Made possible by @pri.planned.it x @bolly_hero x @netflix x @netflixgolden x @_amitdances x @desidancecommunity

🎥 @sfphotoagency

Best of the Best is streaming now on Netflix!🎬 taken in San Francisco, California by @desidancecommunity

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We are so happy to have played a role in bringing the “Best of the Best” community together for its SF workshop! ❤️

So much of what we do is rooted in community and being part of a larger dance ecosystem. We had such a blast sharing movement, meeting new faces, and connecting through dance.

A huge thank you to Netflix and Netflix Golden for having us, and congratulations to all the dancers, choreographers, creatives, and artists who brought this project to life!

#desidancecommunity #bayareadancecommunity #bestofthebest #netflix taken in San Francisco, California by @desidancecommunity

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a month ago

👋🏾 We have dance class details for Chicago and San Francisco, y’all.

In case you missed it — we’re partnering with @netflix x @pri.planned.it and local dance schools and instructors to bring ✨Best of the Best✨ to six cities across the country—a film rooted in the South Asian collegiate competitive dance circuit.

Long before our stories reached screens like this, thousands of collegiate dance teams were building something of their own.💃💃Practices that ran late into the night, packed competitions, homemade costumes, endless rehearsals and teams that became family.

The dance circuit gave us grounding. It gave us a place to belong, lead, create and express our culture and music on our own terms. It shaped friendships, careers, confidence—and a community that continues long after graduation.💯

We’re honored to pay homage to that legacy alongside Netflix, beginning with six FREE Bollywood dance classes hosted by local dance school and instructors, who’ve kept the magic 🪄 of Bollywood alive.

✨ ATLANTA — Friday, September 11th
✨ HOUSTON — Saturday, September 12th
✨ NEW YORK CITY — Sunday, September 13th
✨ CHICAGO — Friday, September 18th
✨ SAN FRANCISCO — Saturday, September 19th

📌Register through the link in bio. Space is limited.

This one’s for every desi kid balancing their passion and ‘studies’ and for everyone who ever found a piece of themselves—and their people—on that stage.🎬💃🏽 by @desidancecommunity

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a month ago

BLUE LIGHT @kelela @nidiasukulbembe
Class for @desidancecommunity ROOTS AND RHYTHMS 2026 at @dancemissiontheater
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#danceworkshop #choreography #kelela #indiandance #rootsandrhythms taken in San Francisco, California by @desidancecommunity

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2 months ago

Indian Contemporary class last night!

Choreography: @ishika_dance
🎵: @zoeviccajime @rohailhyattofficial
📍: @solstudiosllc by @desidancecommunity

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3 months ago

Afreen.
Why are the best versions never on the gram?

💃🏽: @ishika_dance
🎵: @mominamustehsan Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
🏠: @desidancecommunity
📍: @solstudiosllc
🎥: @sanjana.kerketta

#afreen #indiancontemporary #desidancecommunity #ishamidancecompany #southasianartist by @desidancecommunity

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4 months ago

“In Hip Hop, we are physical graffiti. How you write is how you dance. We have a beautiful culture. The beautiful thing is every single citizen of this world has a form of writing, dance, poetry. So, we are all doing this at some point or another.” - @mrwigglesrsc
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#graffiti #writing #hiphop #dance #knowledge by @desidancecommunity

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4 months ago

Loved visualizing this iconic song. Thanks for dancing with me y’all 🖤

Choreography: @ishika_dance
Music: @arrahman
Video: @_amitdances
Location: @desidancecommunity @solstudiosllc
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#chaiyyachaiyya #indiancontemporary #ddc #dancecommunity #ishamidancecompany taken in San Francisco Bay Area by @desidancecommunity

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5 months ago

Weekend vibes in SF 🎻. Thank you for bringing your best energy 💯❤️.
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Musicality is not just timing and knowing when the next “sound” in the music is coming, it is when you became a visual representation of the musical instrument.🎻
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#choreography #dance #love #fusion #desi by @desidancecommunity

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