Dance heals your soul, says Aanchal Gupta

Aanchal Gupta has been passionate about dance right since her childhood. She has introduced dance forms likes Krump, Bboying, Drum circle, Argentine Tango etc. She says, “I am very temperamental when it comes to dance. It is my passion but I dance only when I feel like it. I cannot have a fixed time of dancing.”

She adds, “Dance as a career was never an option. I felt passionate about dance but my skills and formal training is business.” Ask her what are the dance forms she has learned?

She recalls, “I had no choice when I wanted to learn dance, I had to learn whatever is available. I have learned Jazz, Hip hop, Bollywood, Indian folk, etc.” She adds, “Hence I wanted to have various dance forms under one roof. Our agenda was to make dance available to everybody according to their convenience.”

Are people aware of the different dance styles available today? She says, “People just want to dance, they are not aware of categorising dance in different forms.” She further adds, “After various reality shows now people are quite well informed but with only certain dance forms and dance has proliferated.”

Aanchal has also organised a lot of shows which were dedicated to the underprivileged. She says, “‘Dance with Joy’, is a show dedicated to the underprivileged. We have done shows for arthritis patients who have undergone joint surgeries; we have also done shows for cancer patients and are in the process of doing one for autistic children.” She also mentions dance is therapeutic and distressing. “Dance heals your soul.”

Ask her which is the easiest dance ? She says, “Merengue is the easiest. It is a form of Latin dance —  a two beat, fun, social dance and fits into all Bollywood songs too. Bollywood is the most preferred dance as everyone wants to dance to those tunes.” So, who is Bollywood’s best dancer according to her? She says, “Hrithik Roshan is superb. You can’t get your eyes off him when he is dancing. He’s unbelievable.”