Indian Arts Centre (IAC), UK is a registered organisation under Reading Children's and Voluntary Youth Services and all activities are conducted on a formal basis.

IAC UK was set up by highly able teachers and volunteers in June 2010 to provide a non-for- profit community learning zone.

Our aim is to promote languages and the various performing art forms of the Indian Subcontinent through regular schools, contemporary productions, heritage workshops and multimedia projects.

Providing a common platform to those who wish to draw upon the rich culture of India, IAC UK tries to achieve a strong cultural community within UK.

Here Dr Sudeshna Gupta will teach kathak and Chiroisree Bose will teach the creative dances.

This is the only place in South East where people can learn different art forms under one roof.

Moreover, this is the only place in South East where people will learn the creative dance form that was started by the legendary Uday Sankar.

The dance style invented by Uday Sankar and has the intrinsic grammar of classical Indian dance and yet it is pioneering, contemporary and not constraining with the anchors of rigid classicism.

The graceful body movements of the dancers are blended with the expression of vibrant folk dances of India to attain a statuesque quality of lyrics and emotion.

Teachers:

Sudeshna Gupta: Sudeshna (Dr. Sudeshna Gupta) is a trained Kathak dancer who performed in all the important stages of Kolkata and was duly appreciated by the press on many occasions.

Before moving to Reading, Sudeshna was based in Glasgow where she was associated with Scottish Academy of Asian Arts as the Kathak teacher for both children and adults.

Apart from Kathak she has experiences in other dance forms including Odissi, Manipuri, Rabindranritya and folk dances.

Sudeshna started to learn Kathak at the tender age of four under the tutelage of Late Guru Ruby Bandopadhyay.

She also attended a number of workshops by the leading Kathak exponent Pandit Birju Maharaj.

She completed her 6th year in Kathak under Allahabad Sangeet Samiti and went on further for 7th year (Nritya Praveen) and 8th year (Nritya Visharad).

Chirosree Bose:Chirosree Bose has been a certified dancer, for 9 years, in Creative Dance from Ananda Sankar Ballet Troupe (Ananda Sankar Centre for Performing Arts - Style: Uday Sankar).

This dance form blends in Indian classical, folk and tribal dance styles with western techniques.

Before moving to Reading she was associated with the renowned dance troupe Bhavna Aaj o Kaal from West Bengal, India in the capacity of a professional dancer.

She has also worked with Ananda Sankar Centre for Performing Arts as a trainer.

She has over six years experience in teaching dance to children and conducted various dance camps in Indian Cultural centre.

On all occasions she received a lot of appreciation as a dancer and a teacher. Chirosree is also versatile in other dance forms including fusion and contemporary dance, Salsa, Latin dance and ball room dance from Peddro's Salsateca.

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