The Engine Room Starts Ballet & Ballroom Dance Classes

By 1 2 1 News Reporter

Chandigarh, 16th July: --Dance enthusiasts in the region who thought that learning ballet, a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology, was not possible in Chandigarh, have some good news coming their way. The Engine Room, a state-of-the-art dance training facility in Sector 8, will now dole out top-of-the-line training in the graceful dance form. What's more, classic ballroom dancing programmes will also be held for those who want to learn this style. 

The Engine Room has roped in Akshay Sharma, a 24-year-old Ballet & Ballroom dancing expert to conduct classes. He will teach Ballet and Ballroom dances like Cha Cha, Waltz and Tango. Akshay has had some very good training from International bigwigs in ballet. He has trained under Fernando Aguilera from Argentina and Angela Hlady from New Mexico, USA. Akshay further honed his skills in ballet under the expert tutelage of Leah Raphael Curtis from New York and brought finesse to his dancing with Emily Mcloughlin from London in Ballet, Contemporary and Pilates. He is also a versatile ballroom dancing trainer. He gained dexterity in ballroom dancing after training under Avantika Bahl Goyal who herself trained at the London Dance Centre, London & Dimitar Bondev from Bulgaria. Says Akshay Sharma, "It's a homecoming for me. I am back to my city Chandigarh after spending a few years in Delhi for better exposure in ballet training." Adds Akshay, who has been Corps de ballet in Swan lake, La Bayadere and the Nutcracker all Classic ballets, "The Engine Room is bringing in a true & original ballet training programme, which is a novel concept and will benefit those anxious to learn the dance form." The classes in Ballet and Ballroom dancing will be held in a very engaging ambiance. The interiors of Engine Room which connotes conversion of power into motion and creativity; have been given an industrial look. Apart from Akshay, dance facilitators Puneet Jewandah who is certified from the Broadway Dance Centre, NYC and Kritika Sharma too are part of the young and spunky team at The Engine Room. 

 Puneet Jewandah, said that "Classes are already being held in salsa, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, belly dancing, b-boying, street jazz, bollywood and bhangra. We have now become a dance facilitation centre that offers genuine Ballet and Ballroom training." Adds Puneet, "Ballet and Ballroom are both difficult dance forms so we have kept a step wise programme for trainees. In the first level we will teach basics for about a month, then for a couple of months an intermediate level training will be held and the last level will be a final capsule." So all those nimble footed would be ballerinas and ballerinas pull up your socks and get ready for a wide repertoire of modern training in Ballet and Ballroom dancing at The Engine Room. What's more, there are a plethora of classes for all fitness enthusiasts out there ranging from power yoga,ashtanga yoga, Pilates, body combat, bhangra aerobics and zumba