Indian Institute of Management, Indore, organised a five day, belly-dance workshop for the youngsters who aspire or have a hobby of dancing. The workshop began from November 26 that concluded here on Friday. The event was organised by the Performing Arts club of IPM course Beat-i-Fic in association with Ada Kyra Dance Academy, Mumbai.
Notably, it is one of the renowned dancing academies that work upon the most desired dancing form, the belly dancing. The dance academy had represented India at the world’s biggest belly dance conference 2013. It regularly conducted workshops at many corporate across the country. The Academy and its founding-trainer Swati Churadiya, was here to conduct the workshop. According to Swati, “Dance is a route to holistic development”.
The workshop was conducted over five days and saw an active participation from the students of the Institute. One of the participants attending the workshop said “I feel confident and enjoy the combinations of belly dancing and yoga”. Moreover, the interesting fact of the workshop was that it was organized only for the female participants and as many as 3o students participated in the workshop. Many of them experienced the belly dancing for the first time and enjoyed it to the fullest.
Notably, Beat-I-fic is the performing arts club of IPM, dedicated towards the promotion of culture of music and dance among the students. Beat-I-fic aims at inculcating love and harmony among them through various workshops and fests organised at different levels of intra-IPM, inter-IPM and inter-college levels.
Moreover, the workshop was organized by the club in order to introduce a dance form, and offer students a platform to learn a new form of expression. As belly dance requires a lot of confidence as it specially works on external senses, this makes the belly dancing even more special. Moreover the notion behind organizing this workshop at IIM was to provide an exposure to the youngsters to excel and brush up their talent in dancing.