Put on your dancing shoes: Delhi’s dance schools

A judicious mix of rhythm and rigor is the new lifestyle mantra of today’s jet-setting generation. Be it shaking your booty to funky beats or pirouetting gracefully to slow notes, a dance session enables a flight of fancy from the mundane to the marvelous, helping you bond with your partner at the same time. Hence, it is small wonder that the uber-chic urban professionals have cottoned on to this new-age fitness regimen.

Getting the city slickers to shake and stir their booty are quite a few dance schools that offer a multitude of options to choose from. Pradeep Advani’s Institute for the Performing Arts (PAIPA) helps you put your best foot forward when it comes to any form of western dance. Be it contemporary dance or the classic cha cha cha, jazz or jive, salsa or waltz, PAIPA has flexible classes, enrolls all age groups and … surprise, surprise … also offers transportation.

If you want to go one notch up then try Ballatino Dance Studios that train in lambada, bachata and tango, besides other regular western-dance forms. Ballatino accepts singles as well at a reasonable monthly charge.

While western dance ensures that you carry yourself with a sprightly verve, classical Indian dance helps you gain much more than just nimble steps. Practising the mudras will increase your concentration level: the dance movements will keep your BMI under tight leash. A visit to Sonal Mansingh’s Centre for Indian Classical Dances or Birju Maharaj Parampara could help you find your rasa in life. The moderate pricing makes it possible for people from all walks of life to reap the benefits.

In case you desire all this and much more from your weekly dance session, then you could do well to check out Kiran Sawhney’s Dacerise at Fitnessolution. Dacerise, through its carefully coordinated aerobics steps, gives you the added advantage of an upright posture and improves your cardiovascular function. You may feel the pinch of its slightly high subscription fees, but it’s worth all the moolah.

So get out of your weight-watching blues and enrol yourself in a dance school. You are bound to experience the difference in no time!