Bollywood Nights: Dance + Eat + Connect! (FLL)

Spice up your week with Pooja Uberoi on Tuesday, Aug 17 at 6:30PM for a special Bollywood dance class at Society Las Olas. Grab your sneakers and get ready to move! Learn something new, meet new people, and have fun! Enjoy Indian bites after class from Indian Harbor restaurant plus a chance to win gift cards to their new site! 

• Learn how to dance Bollywood style with dance teacher, Pooja Uberoi 
• Sample Indian food (samosa, mix vegetable pakora, and chia pudding) after class with Indian Harbor 
• Pop-up Henna station to benefit the Vathsalya Happy Home Orphanage (Odisha, India) 
• Shop Rupees (homegoods, decor, and apparel)

Check-in at 6:15PM at the rooftop yoga lawn (covered). 

Henna Station

We will also have a special pop-up Henna tattoo station with Pooja Gupta from Vathsalya Henna. Henna tattoos are a form  of body art and temporary skin decoration in which decorative designs are created on a person's body, using a paste created from the powdered  dry leaves of the henna plant. All of the Henna proceeds will be going to Vathsalya Happy home Orphanage located in Odisha, India. Suggested donation $15. 

What is Bollywood?

Bollywood  Dance originated from the Bollywood (Hindi) Movie Industry as a free  style dance fused with elements from Indian classical and folk dance forms. It has been and still a song and dance sequence with larger than life expression through various different moves, grandeur sets,  picturesque locations and large ensemble.

BollyJazz  - This fusion dance class brings you the best of the expressive beauty  and contagious energy of Bollywood's most stylized dances and mashes them up with the influences of hip hop, Latin, jazz, funk and street  styles. 

About Pooja Uberoi

Pooja was born and raised in New Delhi, India and later moved to Mumbai to work in film and  television as a Choreographer and the head of one of the biggest Jazz  schools in India. Pooja will share her experiences as a dance instructor while growing up in India.

After spending 2 decades in the dance world in India she moved to New  York and started Ikigai USA and BollyJazz. Pooja is a trained E-RYT  200-Hr Hatha yoga teacher from an institute in Bangalore, India. She has  been inspired by her own journey to create something for the world  through dance. She believes dance has the power to heal and connect the  world and must be part of everyone's life. Her company, IKIGAIUSA, helps  and encourages people to follow their passion and mission by encouraging  them to follow their IKIGAI. Pooja currently shuttles between New York  City and Miami to teach students in both cities. Pooja also teaches  Bollywood as part of various public school dance residencies in  Brooklyn, NY. Pooja is also on the executive board for Young BK  Professionals base din Brooklyn - A committee that supports the growth  of young professionals & entrepreneurs in their 20s & 30s to  foster the future leaders of Brooklyn. Bollywood Dance originated from  the Bollywood (Hindi) Movie Industry as a free style dance fused with  elements from Indian classical and folk dance forms. It has been and  still is a song and dance sequence with larger than life expression  through various different moves, grandeur sets, picturesque locations  and large ensemble.

Society

The event will be on the covered lawn at Society Las Olas, pool level.  Parking is validated in the garage up to three hours. Please go to the main lobby and have security let you up to the pool deck. 

Refunds 

Unfortunately no refunds are allowed.