This dance studio is setting up competitions to celebrate the power and beauty of South Asian dance. Here’s why

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Hosted by BRDRLESS Dance Competition Canada, seven teams from Ontario universities united in Scarborough to showcase their talents. Anchal Dahiya, an instructor and founder of BRDRLESS, hopes events like these will make multicultural dance accessible.

They appeared on stage dressed in costumes of impossible colours, some wielding swords, others holding wooden accordions or drums. Dancing enthusiastically to the music of South Asia — bhangra, gaana fusion and Bollywood — they electrified an audience made up of more than 400 parents, friends, students and dance enthusiasts.

Dahiya, a dance instructor and Ivey Business School student, founded BRDRLESS Dance Studio in 2021. Though based in London, Ont., the studio has hosted workshops and themed nights at major Toronto venues, including Bar 244 on Adelaide West. It’s Dahiya’s hope that these events will make multicultural dance accessible to the masses. “BRDRLESS’s mission,” she says, “is to bring dance styles from everywhere to everyone and increase the power of diversity.

“Just like acro or tap, have competitions to show they’re professionals, South Asian styles deserve to be at the same level,” she says. “It’s a different energy when you compete. A showcase can be fun and entertaining, but with competing, you really develop a lot of skill sets, like cleaning the theatre, where faces were matched to names through team-bonding activities, including a dance-off and a push-up challenge.

 

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