LTO HAPPINESS CENTRE - DANCE PLANET (MUMBAI) Posted by localturnon Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps What is the history behind Dance Planet ? What started off as simply a hobby for Lillian Mendes, quickly grew into a burning passion. She began dancing and performing since the age of 15. Since then, she’s gone on to become a well recognized name and face in the dance industry. From choreographing advertisements for brands like Dominoes, Volini and Vasmol, to choreographing and performing on the popular dance show “Boogie Woogie”, to teaching Salsa professionally to contestants on Saroj Khan’s dance show “Nach Le ve”, Lillian has done it all. She’s also been the official choreographer to Mohinder Amarnath on Season 3 of Jhalak Dikh Laja, and to Sudeep and Anantika on Season 4 of Nach Balliye and recently performed on JUST DANCE with the finalist Surjit. From stage to screen, Lillian has turned dance into inspirational work of passion and beauty. Lillian is a certified teacher of Ballroom and Latin dance from the Joy of Dance Teachers Training College in Canada. She is also currently on the Madhuri Dixit’s website called Dance with Madhuri, teaching Salsa with her partner Savio Barnes. Lillian has a dance troupe that performs all over India and Abroad. They recently performed for the closing ceremony of the National Games held in Kerala in February 2015. Having over 15 years of dance and stage experience, Lillian currently owns and operates her dance school “Dance Planet”, which specializes in the dance styles of Salsa, Jive and Bollywood. Dance Planet is all about her Motivation, Passion for Dance What does your Dance Centre offer students ? Having taught over more than 5000 plus students in the past 9 years we have centres all over Mumbai in Santacruz, Bandra, Andheri and Malad. We specialize in CHA-CHA, JIVE, WALTZ, SALSA, SAMBA, HIP HOP, YOGA, BELLY-FIT, RUMBA, CONTEMPORARY, LATIN and BALLROOM dancing along with our very own BOLLYWOOD. Our students are a mix bag of people from small kids to teenagers, adults to even senior citizens. In the past few years Dance Planet has given back to the community in various ways. We conduct workshops for under privileged children and adults at zero cost. We have worked with the following NGO’s and institutions including Dharavi Municipality School’s Annual function in alliance with for Teach for India, Juhu Gandhigram Municipality School, Ashadeep association and Angel Express. We trying to get the word out there so we can get many more kids to come to our class Foundation. Pure happiness through Dance! This is what Dance Planet is all about How does your School ensure that the training techniques / teaching style gives individual attention / proper knowledge to students? Dance planet focuses on individual attention and small class sizes resulting in exceptional training. Our classes are fun, informal and high energy. Do you have any cases where your students (who has passed out earlier / are currently enrolled) have done the school proud? We also have a few celebrity students that we have trained in the past. One such student that made us really proud is Erica Fernandes who is a famous actress now. What are the future plans for the school? Off late we have been receiving a lot of messages from people all over the world and India to start a centre there. Thanks to one of our videos that went viral with over 4,45,000 views and some 5,000 plus shares. So we plan to at-least start expanding in Goa and maybe Dubai for now.
