ABOUT
The Movement Hub
The movement hub is an organisation built to encourage and develop a dance community across the city that provides, recognises and respects movement vocabulary from all styles while primarily looking to offer quality dance education to its members.
We would like to think of Mumbai being our ‘hub’ and everyone and anyone who wishes to, can be a part of the movement hub, whether its through performance art, dance education, community classes, corporates or other experimental collaborations.
Our movement facilitators come from various backgrounds of movement such as Jazz funk, Street Jazz, Urban, Hip-Hop, Modern technique, Contemporary, Body Mind Centering, Ballet, Bollywood and Breaking and are all well recognised in their respective art forms.
We look to provide a safe environment through which an individual can grow in which ever form they like to and learn its essence, while also being true to their own natural element. Basically, the hub looks to develop a self sustaining dance community that provides anything and everything related to movement through and in which the dance community in India can grow and flourish in a positive yet fulfilling manner.
ABOUT
Founder & Director
Kunaal is a Mumbai based Jazz funk and contemporary dancer. Having trained and taught at L’infini performing arts academy as a senior instructor for 4 years, he decided to further his studies at the Northern school of contemporary dance in 2017, in Leeds,UK. He furthered his training by attending the MASA program with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, 2018-19.
Kunaal has trained under world renowned teachers such as Hana Gosling, Matthew Slater, Phil Sanger, Azzura Ardovini, Avantika Bahl, Akshat Sharma, Anton Lakhy, Gina Micheal, Fransesco Cordova, Sharon Vasaver, DeNada Dance company and Gosia Mielech to name a few.
Kunaal is the founder of 'The Movement Hub’ which aims at promoting movement for one and all and developing Mumbai as one of the biggest movement/dance hubs in the world.
He is also the founder of ‘The New Movement Collective’ a contemporary performance company.
“Movement to me is present in everyone. We just differ in the range, capacity and ability which can be developed over time. Every response in our body, even breathing is a movement and through my classes I would love to develop a space where people can come and explore that side of themselves while also growing in the range, ability and capacity in due time. “
The movement hub is a venture to promote and showcase various movers just like me and give them a platform to share their knowledge with the whole community.
INSTRUCTORS
Pooja. R
Experimental
Pooja Radhakrishnan is a graduate with a First Class Bachelors Degree in Dance and Arts and Festivals Management (Joint) Honours of De Montfort University, U.K.
She started off her journey as a Bharatanatyam dancer in U.S. and also trained in Contemporary, African Contemporary, Jazz, Ballet and Hip Hop.
Pooja is currently a performer in Itthā Dance Theatre's upcoming production, 'Hurriya.' while also working for Absolute Bollywood, London having worked at Pineapple Studios in London with them
Dev. G
Hip-Hop/Choreography
Dev Narayan Gupta is primarily self taught. He is also the choreographer of Full stop Crew, Kolkata, India. He started dancing back in 2009 with his school dance team with basic training in body conditioning and rhythm patterns which he got from his seniors. Shortly after which Full stop was formed. He has trained in all street styles like Popping, Locking, Krump, litefeet, hiphop etc and house which is a club style.
Dimple. C
Commercial Jazz
Dimple Champaneria, has over 15 years of experience training in styles like Bharat Natyam, Jazz , Ballet, Contemporary, Urban. She has been a Dance educator, senior company member and choreographer at The Danceworx, Mumbai under Mr. Ashley Lobo.
As a part of continued education she has attended FairPlay Dance Camp (Poland 2018 & 2019), masterclasses conducted in London, Berlin and other international faculty in India.
Mihir Grover
Contemporary/Bollywood
Mihir is a Contemporary and Bollywood Dancer, Teacher and Choreographer from Mumbai, India.
Who primarily Teaches Contemporary and contemporary FLOORWORK in India and abroad.
Trained and performed with Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance company from 2005-2014, Mihir went on to be a Senior Dancer and Assistant Rehersal director with the company
In 2014, Mihir decided to venture abroad and ended up Trained at Kibbutz contemporary dance company Masa program in Israel for 1 year.
He also been a company member with Fresco Dance company In Israel from 2015-2017.
His most recent work has been working as an assistant choreographer and rehearsal director for
Disney India musical ÀLADDIN (2017-2018) and Sing India sing, the musical (2018-2019)
He currently teaches at Nritya Shakti studio, Mumbai.
Rishina Mehta
Jazz Funk
Rishina Mehta started her dance career at the age of 10, with Shiamak Davars institute of performing Arts(SDIPA) as a junior dance company member for around 6 Years. She joined Split Sole Dance Academy where she got her formal Jazz, Contemporary and Hip Hop training.
To further train, she joined Future School of Performing Arts,kalina ( FSPA) in Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Hip-hop and Yoga. To gain some international exposure, she attended HDI Dance camp in august 2019 in London to train under 15 international teachers such as Brian Friedman, Candace Brown, Kyle Hanagami, Ian Eastwood to name a few.
Manish Chauhan
Ballet
Manish Chauhan is a Mumbai based Ballet and Contemporary Dancer. Born in 1993, Manish started his dance career much later in 2013. Manish is one of Indias first Male ballet dancers and has been personally mentored by Yehuda Ma’or since 2012. Manish also received a full scholarship by Oregon Ballet theatre in 2012. He has also trained with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company for 1 year.
Manish has also recently played the lead Role in the Netflix movie ‘YEH BALLET’ which was movie made on his life and journey as a dancer, where he played himself.
Manish is an inspiration for all the budding, young dancers in India and worldwide.
Wake up and Workout.
CONTACT
Our Address:
802, RNA SAPPHIRE,
OFF VEERA DESAI ROAD, ANDHERI (W),
MUMBAI-400053.
Email:
Phone:
+919769666009