Madhuri’s online dance academy gets real
SHE has impressed Bollywood buffs with her versatility and acting ability through the years, but it is dance that keeps Madhuri Dixit going.
The actress, who gave a new dimension to her passion by launching an online dance academy, said its success had encouraged her to plan an actual institute.
“We do have plans to take the online dance academy on ground. We decided to go digital first as it was a way to reach out to a whole lot of people from around the globe. We’re in the planning stages of coming up with an on-ground dance institute,” said Madhuri.
Her online academy, DancewithMadhuri.com, was launched in February 2013.
The actress, who trained as a Kathak dancer, said: “We realised we could spread the joy of dancing easily via the digital medium and as many as 100 000 people are enrolled. Besides, it’s easy — you can be carrying a smartphone and learning dance anywhere. You can be sharing and uploading your videos and earning incentives and badges. It’s a community, really.”
She became Bollywood’s box-office queen in the 1990s courtesy of films such as Dil, Saajan, Beta, Khalnayak, Hum Aapke Hain Koun! and Dil To Pagal Hai.
Plans for extending her dance-based venture are still on her mind, but what is keeping her occupied is the new season of the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, in which celebrities, paired with a professional choreographer, compete with one another.
Judging the show for the fourth time in a row, Dixit is excited about the contestant lineup this season, which will be co-judged by filmmaker Karan Johar, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, a Ukranian dancer and winner of
Dancing With The Stars 2014, and choreographerdirector Remo D’Souza — Indo-Asian News Service