JAIPUR

Transformative Dance Experiences

JANUARY 2026

Colleena Shakti in Residence at:

Alt.ar Residency Hawamahal, City Palace

Offering intimate immersive studies in: dance as a ritual art practice, traditions and innovations, embodied poetry and performance experiences…

SUNDAY OPEN CLASSES

1:1 Classes and Small Group Classes by Appointment

SUNDAY CLASSES

January 4/11/18/25

ODISSI

Classical Indian Temple Dance Foundations
11 am - 1 pm
LASYA FLOW

Free Flowing, Deep Rooted, De-Colonial ‘Bellydance’
4 - 5:30 pm
PRANAM

Reverential Salutations
2 - 3:30 pm

Odissi: Classical Indian Temple Dance

Odissi offers an embodied culture of devotion and a liberatory technology which weaves languid stances with poetry, musical complexity and acting.

I invite you to a safe space for deep transformation…

Chowka + Tribhangi Steppings & Compositions

Explore Odissi’s complex steps, nuanced gestures and sculpted poses. Languid and vigorous; a balance of energies in the dancing body, Odissi is known for its emphasis of the S-curve Tribhangi stance and sidelong glances. A devotional dance form filled with ritual movement that enhance the body as the offering to the divine. Each person comes to the dance for their own reason, but all will find a transformation taking place. Class will begin with warm up, conditioning, techniques, compositions and if time permits we will engage in theory.

All Levels welcome! However, Odissi technique does require a certain degree of fitness.

Scholarship available for those in need.

ODISSI CLASS

Pranam: Reverential Salutations

Reverential Salutation: crystallize intention through the body. Experience a creative flow of movements and shapes from Indian dance practices, yoga and the naturally abundant inner landscape of our own body.

WHAT IS PRANAM?

Pranam is a reverential salutation common to all the arts of India; including yoga, martial arts and dance. Inspired initially by Odissi, for decades Colleena has been exploring this theme of Pranam which she presents as the very crux of Indian classical dance when viewed as a Yogic practice.

Enter the space where our bodies become a site for the sacred…. Discover what movements want to come through your body as you explore the sacred storytelling through - prostrations, salutations and gestures of reverence. This is space where we lean into ritual, repetition, trance and all things sacred. You will find some technique (from Sufi whirling, to Odissi) and lots of exploration.

All Levels welcome! Technique can be modified according to one’s capacity.

LASYA FLOW

Feel ‘Fusion Bellydance’ flow - from the inside out, drop into rich trance states in full celebration of the feminine form.

WHAT IS LASYA FLOW?

Free Flowing… continuous explorations of shapes and curves on rich musical tracks. Dial back your mind and let your body guide you into sequential unfurling - petals peeling back… revealing rippling undulations, ripe arches of the spine and heavy earthy hips that drop on basey beats.

Withholding the patriarchal / colonial term ‘bellydance’ which invokes the male gaze - we take back the movement dynamics and pathways from ‘fusion bellydance’ and seek them from the inside out without needing to name them. Seeking the expression of Sringara Rasa - femininity in its symbolic fullness through both structured techniques and sequences, as well as explorations.

This class is less technical and more about feeling, yet with some technique and composition.

All Levels - Women only please