Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing celebrates 10 years

Krisha Jilson, who founded the Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing a decade ago, has two sons. But they don’t dance and never have.

“No way – I’ve been trying for 10 years!” she says. The boys love cricket.

“I wish I had a daughter who took dance,” she says wistfully. While she doesn’t insist her sons dance, she does make them help her pack the school’s costumes – “otherwise I won’t take them to cricket matches”.

But while her sons haven’t succumbed to the allure of the Bollywood moves taught at her school, plenty of other people have – “3000 people have danced their way through”, she estimates, and from modest beginnings in Tuggeranong the school now has 150 students a term with eight tutors and additional locations in Gungahlin, Belconnen, Woden and Civic.

Jilson was born in Sri Lanka and met her Indian husband in Darwin in 1991 while she was studying a computer degree. They married in India in 1996 and moved to Canberra the following year to work in the public service.

Source: Canberra Times