Nritya Spandan Kala Nikunj

25/01/2025

Let’s celebrate the rich art, culture & heritage of India. Wishing you a day filled with pride, patriotism, and joy. Happy Republic Day 🇮🇳
Nritya Spandan Kala Nikunj

04/07/2024

Presenting the video of my new Rajasthani folk dance performance at "Wembley" London. This amazing event named "Jeeman Utsav" was organized by Rajasthan Association UK (RAUK) which is dedicated to promoting Rajasthani art, culture, history and its local food. I'm happy that I got a wonderful opportunity to perform there. I hope you'll also enjoy the performance.
Thank you 🙏😊
✨🤟My most favourite moments

Presenting my new Rajasthani folk dance performance at "Wembley" London. This amazing event named "Jeeman Utsav" was organized by Rajasthan Association UK (R...

15/06/2024

घुंघरू ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C61BVJcPfrH/?igsh=MWc2MnFlNG9zcHE4bA==

29/04/2024

आईए आज और हमेशा नृत्य के माध्यम से अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता का जश्न मनाएं और खुलकर आनंद उठाएं। थिरकन, हाव-भाव, अभिनय और प्रसन्नता को जीवन में शामिल करें।
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय नृत्य दिवस की शुभकामनाएँ ✨💃

08/03/2024

When their feet have to dance, they don't listen to anyone... they don't stop just dancing, this is the only thing that can make them happy. Same thing happened with the famous Kalbelia dancer Gulabo.

01/03/2024

01/12/2023

“I was buried alive for nearly seven hours before my mother and aunt dug my grave and pulled me out after hearing my incessant cries. I do not know if it was the grass covering the soil that helped me breathe or simply a fighting spirit that gave a less-than-one-day-old baby from Ajmer’s Kotda village strength. But I refused to give up on myself," says Gulabo Sapera, who bloomed in the patriarchal landscape of Rajasthan and went on to create history in more ways than one.

"Gulabo, originally named Dhanvati, was a fighter from the age of one. She fell seriously ill, and while doctors almost gave up on her, she pulled through. Her father placed a rose next to her in the clinic, and seeing the flower as a sign of goodwill, he changed her name to Gulabi, which means "rose" in Hindi.

Years later, this girl with an indomitable spirit was featured in a magazine, but her name was misspelt and, since then, to the world, she came to be known as Gulabo – the sensational Sapera (or Kalbelia) dancer from Pushkar who could bend in unimaginable ways.

In 2016, Gulabo was bestowed with India’s fourth-highest civilian award, Padma Shri, for her outstanding contribution to enhancing India’s folk dance culture.

From running a dance school in Denmark to expanding her legacy internationally and imparting free lessons to girls from rural areas of Rajasthan to opening a dance school in Ajmer soon, Gulabo is today going all out to preserve her dance form.

Read more of Gulabo's incredible story by clicking the link : https://www.thebetterindia.com/.../rajasthan-woman.../...

18/11/2023

What an inspirational story!!! Dance made her life change 😀

My daughter was 6 when a paralytic attack changed our lives. The doctor said that Prerana would never walk again, but no one said anything about her ability to hear.

It was much later that we noticed that she wasn’t responding to our voices – the paralytic attack had silently damaged the hearing centre in her brain too.

My husband and I were devastated. We had a daughter who couldn’t hear, walk or speak. Was life even worth living?

We considered su***de; all we wanted was for life to stop and our miseries to end.

However, a conversation with my sister changed my perspective. When I told her how hopeless I felt, she gave me Helen Keller’s autobiography and said, “Helen Keller couldn’t see too. Your daughter can.”

This was the turning point in our lives. We changed our daughter’s name from Priyanka to Prerana and began anew with hope.

After years of therapy, Prerana started having sensations in her feet. She began to walk, and soon, run.

Her hearing did not ever recover, but we did not let this defeat us. We sent Prerana to a school for speech and hearing-impaired children.

But what really changed her life, and ours, was enrolling her to the dance academy ‘Sadhana Nrityalaya’ in Pune.

As soon as Prerana and Shumita Mahajan saw each other, there was an instant connection between them. Prerana wanted to dance, and the teacher had found her student!

But my first thought was ‘How would my speech and hearing-impaired daughter dance?’ How would Shumita guide her with mudras?

But Shumita said, “So what if Prerana cannot hear? No one can stop her from dancing.”

The first few years were a struggle, but Shumita never gave up on our daughter, who would lip-read her instructions. With time, they formed a rapport of their own.

I still remember her Arangetram (graduation ceremony) day vividly. Prerana performed in front of the most senior dancers in the country and did not make a single mistake. No one left the hall until the very end.

The little girl who had once made us feel as if life was over, was now the reason our heads were held up in pride.

— As narrated by Prerana’s mom, Ujjwala Sahane.

05/11/2023

Waah 😂😂