Which class should you start with?

Four adult styles, and no wrong answer. But people ask this constantly, so here is how to think about it.

Start with Bollywood if you want the films

This is the cinematic one — big, expressive, joyful choreography set to music you probably already know. If your mental image of “I want to dance” came from a film sequence, start here. It is also the broadest foundation, because the vocabulary turns up in everything else we teach.

Start with Bhangra if you want the workout

Punjabi folk at full volume: powerful shoulders, driving footwork, and a dhol beat you feel in your chest. It is the most cardio you will do without noticing, and it is relentlessly good fun. Come prepared to sweat.

Start with Hip Hop if you want the attitude

Grooves, isolations, and control. Hip hop builds something the other styles lean on — a sense of how your body actually moves in time — and it tends to be the class that changes how people carry themselves outside the studio.

Start with Fusion if you already move

Fusion is where Bollywood’s language meets hip hop, contemporary and folk. It is the thing this academy is built on, and the class that rewards having some movement experience already. Plenty of people arrive here after a term of something else.

Kids and teens

Grouped by age rather than ability, because at that age the social side matters as much as the technique. The aim is a child who walks in shy and walks out taking up space.

The honest answer

Pick the music you would put on at home. That is a better predictor of what you will keep turning up to than any breakdown of technique — and plenty of people end up taking two anyway.