Aerodance Academy

Services we Offer

• Bollywood Dance Classes
• Classical Indian Dance Class
• Dance Class
• Folk Dance Class

Amenities

• Air Conditioning
• On-site Parking
• Online Booking
• Restrooms
• Waiting Area
• Wheelchair Accessibility
• Wi-Fi

About

From its humble beginning in 1999 in a garage with handful of students, Aerodance grew as an Academy to offer Indian Ethnic, Folk, Patriotic, Devotional, Bollywood, Fusion, Modern and Contemporary dance styles to more than 1000 students in the Bay area and became a forerunner in winning all Bay Area dance competitions. Parents wanted their children to dance for fun and after one or two years of dancing, students would drop out of dance classes in order to save time for studies. Is dance just for fun and entertainment? It set the director Ms. Ranjani Avijit thinking about levels in dance and design a graduation program to get the students more passionate about learning dance as an art form. With a double master’s in Child Psychology and as a Kuchipudi exponent, she believed that students ages K-12 can be trained in Indian dance using dance as a creative directional tool that has a positive impact on student’s academics. She felt that students must experience the benefits of all Indian dances not only physically and socially but also emotionally [EQ] and intellectually [IQ] To achieve this objective, in 2011, Aerodance opened a 2000 sq. ft. well equipped studio for dance. This space created an environment suitable for students to explore higher possibilities in choreography skills and aided in developing focus to exploring subject concepts. For example, dancing and moving in a bigger area and transition of positions in shapes, use of movement and dance on counting combinations allowed students to relate to mathematics. The speed of the routines grew to be appreciated as it involved time management. As the students worked in groups, they experienced positive team building.