{"id":1409,"date":"2016-01-25T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2016-02-20T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T10:56:08","slug":"canberra-school-of-bollywood-dancing-celebrates-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing celebrates 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1410\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"head\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Krisha Jilson, who founded the Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing a decade ago, has two sons. But they don&#8217;t dance and never have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No way \u2013 I&#8217;ve been trying for 10 years!&#8221; she says. The boys love cricket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish I had a daughter who took dance,&#8221; she says wistfully. While she doesn&#8217;t insist her sons dance, she does make them help her pack the school&#8217;s costumes \u2013 &#8220;otherwise I won&#8217;t take them to cricket matches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But while her sons haven&#8217;t succumbed to the allure of the Bollywood moves taught at her school, plenty of other people have \u2013 &#8220;3000 people have danced their way through&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Jilson was born in Sri Lanka and met her Indian husband in Darwin in 1991 while she was studying a computer\u00a0degree. They married in India in 1996 and moved to Canberra the following year to work in the public service.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Canberra Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krisha Jilson, who founded the Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing a decade ago, has two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[22,12,9,30,33,1],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head-199x300.jpg",199,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"large":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"enternews-featured":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"enternews-medium":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",300,452,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["https:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/head.jpg",209,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}