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- Mon - Fri: 9:00 - 5:00 EST
Sunday, 12/7/2025
Time: 2pm-3:30pm
Free & Open to the public
We will be decorating on canvas, ornaments and earrings (perfect for gift giving)
No experience needed – just bring your love for art and each other!
What to Expect:
Step-by-step Dot Mandala painting – A fun and easy technique for all ages!
Quality bonding time – Create beautiful memories together through art.
All materials provided – Just bring your creativity!
A calming and joyful atmosphere – Relax, unwind, and enjoy the moment.
Refreshments, Chai and Snacks provided!
Thursday, 12/11/25
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm
Cost: $35
Saturday, 12/13/2025
Time: 1pm-4pm
Cost: $35-50/Sliding Scale
Think you can’t wear a Saree? Think again, we are offering an opportunity for you to feel and look your best.
What to expect: We will learn how to drape a saree, we will learn some interesting history and facts about it and then have a short dance choreography!!
What to bring: Bring a saree that you have tucked away waiting for that special occasion or borrow one from us.
Bring a long skirt or leggings to wear underneath.
Friday, January 23, 2026
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Early Bird $25/Day of $35
Friday, 11/21/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
We are thrilled to host our 3rd Annual Community Diwali Celebration, a free event open to everyone. Each year, this celebration brings together people of all backgrounds to experience the Festival of Lights through dance, music, crafts, and community connection.
Free and open to the public
Sunday, 11/2/2025
Time: 2-3:30pm
Cost: FREE
October’s offering is discovering everyday gratitude. This workshop will guide participants through a daily routine of gratitude based on Nancy’s executive function coaching practice and healing work. Nancy will combine meditation, intention, and intuition to guide you through a discovery process that will leave you feeling more connected to your Self.
Friday, 10/24/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Workshop: Monday, October 20th
Join us for a special Kathak workshop with Labonee Mohanta, internationally acclaimed disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das.
Open to dancers, musicians, and enthusiasts of all level. Immerse yourself in the beauty of Kathak through rhythm, footwork, spins, expression, improvisation, and Kathak Yoga.
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Rate: $35
Location: 3200 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Monday, 10/21/2025
6:30pm-8:30pm
$35
Performance: Sunday, October 19th
Experience the magic of Kathak with Labonee Mohanta, internationally acclaimed artist and disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das.
Time: 4-5pm
Rate: Free
Location: Elmwood Commons – The Auditorium
3200 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14217
Sunday, 10/19/2025
4pm-5pm
FREE
Join us for a day of incredible dance classes led by some of Buffalo’s finest instructors.
🌍✨ Rhythms of the World is BACK! ✨🌍
We are so excited to celebrate the 2nd year of this incredible day of movement, music, and community connection. 💃🏽🥁 Join us on Sunday, October 5th from 10AM–5PM for a full day of energy, creativity, and joy (and don’t worry—you’ll still make it home in time for the game 😉).
Come ready to move, learn, and experience rhythms from across the globe in a space filled with culture, community, and love. 💜
📍 Save the date, invite your friends, and let’s make this year even bigger and better!
What to expect: Salsa, Hip Hop, Bhangra, and more!
Sunday, 10/5/2025
10am- 5:00pm
Early Bird Rate: $65
After 9/26 price goes up:
$75/day and $25/per class
Join Gaitrie & Megan on Autumn Equinox
This September we invite you to honor the Autumn Equinox with an evening of movement, breath, and healing. As we transition from the brightness of summer into the grounding energy of fall, this workshop will offer space to pause, reflect, and realign. Through gentle movement, mindful breathing, and restorative practices, we will tune into balance—light and dark, letting go and welcoming in.
Monday, 9/22/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Friday, 7/25/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Step into the rhythm of summer with our next Beyond the Mat session:
Beats & Flow with DJ Lisa Lux 🎶✨
Join us for a powerful evening of movement and music as Meagan McClain Kwacz guides an invigorating yoga flow to honor the energy of the Summer Solstice. As the sun reaches its peak, we’ll align our bodies and breath with the beats of DJ Lisa Lux, creating a space to release, renew, and celebrate.
This special evening will awaken your senses, ground your spirit, and connect you more deeply with your inner rhythm and our beautiful community.
🌟 Spots are limited! Once registered, you’ll receive full location details.
* This month, 100% of the proceeds from our Beyond the Mat series will be donated to support DJ Lisa Lux and her ongoing treatments for stage 4 breast cancer. Join us in holding space, healing, and hope for a beloved member of our community.
Friday, 6/20/2025
Time: 7 pm-8:30 pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Friday, 5/16/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Saturday, 5/03/2025
Time: 4-5:30pm
$15 (Please pay via venmo)
Venmo @gaitrie-subryan
Megan Rakeepile is a Buffalo-born artist with over 30 years of dance experience, specializing in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Fusion styles rooted in the African diaspora. She began training at Miss Barbara School of Dance (1991–2006), later competing and studying at Buffalo City Ballet (1998–2007), and attended NYSSSA in 2004 and 2005. A graduate of Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (2008), Megan continued her training in Toronto at Ballet Creole’s Professional Training Program (2008–2010), earning certification in modern, classical, and traditional dance forms.
She performed and taught in Toronto and later joined Garth Fagan Dance Co. in Rochester (2010–2011) before returning to Buffalo to focus on community and youth arts. Since 2012, she’s led nonprofit programs in partnership with local organizations and churches. In 2014, she founded MahatmaMmoho Collective (Stepping Together Collective), bringing artists together to foster unity and cultural exchange through the arts.
Featuring Movement flow led by Gaitrie and Megan and Drumming by Crone Moya
As the seasons shift and daylight returns, join Gaitrie & Megan for a powerful and creative Spring Equinox Yoga Flow—a celebration of renewal, balance, and transformation.
Moon Salutations – Embrace the grounding energy of the moon as we move through a fluid, meditative sequence.
Resistance Yoga – Build strength and resilience with Megan’s dynamic practice.
Live Shamanic Drumming – Feel the rhythm of the earth as drumming guides our breath and movement.
This unique fusion of movement, rhythm, and breath will help you reset, restore, and welcome the new season with intention and vitality.
What to Bring: A journal if you have the one given to you in January (If you do not we can provide you one), a yoga mat and blanket to sit on and an open heart.
Thursday, 3/20/2025
Time: 7pm- 8:30pm
On Saturday, January 11th. We are inviting you to a day full of FREE dance, yoga, and movement classes, followed by an afternoon of joy, connection, and celebration.
Open House Schedule (10 AM – 3:30 PM) Studio Celebration (4:30 PM – 6 PM)Saturday, 1/11/2025
Time: 10:15am- 6:30pm
Cost: FREE
Chai and Samosas provided!
Friday, 11/22
Time: 7 – 8:30pm
Cost: $45
Join us for a day of incredible dance classess led by some of Buffalo’s finest instructors.
What to expect: Salsa, Bellydance, Modern, Garba and more!
10-11am Drumming Class with Griffin Brady
11:15-12:15 PM Salsa Class with Natasha
12:30-1:30 PM Indian Classical Dance with Nitya
2PM-3:15 PM Modern Contemporary dance w/ Holli Simme
3:30-4:30 PM Bellydance with Kenzie
5-6 PM Somatic Movement with Megan and Live Jazz by Alex McArthur (Equinox Special)
Sunday, 09/22/2024
10 – 6:00pm
Cost: $60/day, $20/class
Think you can’t wear a Saree? Think again, we are offering an opportunity for you to feel and look your best.
What to expect: We will learn how to drape a saree, we will learn some interesting history and facts about it and then have a short dance choreography to the song “Dole Re Dole” From the film Devdas
What to bring: Bring a saree that you have tucked away waiting for that special occasion or borrow one from us.
Bring a long skirt or leggings to wear underneath.
Friday, 09/13/2024
7 – 8:30pm
Cost: $35
Let’s get the wedding season ready! We are calling all guests, bridesmaids, bridal parties, aunties, uncles, and even the cameraman!
In this class, you will learn three upbeat, fun for your next Indian wedding, and you will receive the music track for your playlist (or share it with the DJ)!
Be ready to make some moves on the dance floor and party all night long with everyone.
Friday, 06/21
Time: 7 – 8:30pm
Cost: $35
As early as 4000 B.C., gongs have been used as spiritual tools to help guide meditation. A gong produces motions and vibrations that cause frequencies of difference ranges. Scientific studies have shown the therapeutic use of sound frequencies to benefit overall health and well-being. Immersion in a full gong bath takes the participant on a journey of meditation and self-healing.
A sound bath using gongs is a meditative sonic experience, where the participant is “bathed” in sound waves from various gongs. The practice finds it’s roots in ancient cultures and Kundalini yoga and is more recently used by sound healing practitioners.
The participant can expect to be taken on a meditation journey enhanced and assisted by the frequencies of these ancient instruments. The experience will last roughly 45 minutes and led by Liz Holland, MM Percussion Performance.
Liz Holland M.M., practitioner of Ancient Alloys, has been a percussionist for her entire life. She holds a M.M. in Percussion Performance, with a focus in exploratative techniques of percussive instruments for new music. She has been features in Drum! magazine, Modern Drummer, and has toured and performed around the country many times. A native of Buffalo, NY, she is now based in Seattle, Washington.
Thursday, May 23rd
Time: 7-8pm
Cost: $25
The name Bharatanatyam signifies three concepts coming together, BHA- bhaava or emotions, RA- raaga or melody/musicality and TA- taala or rhythm. This class will take the dancers through these three fundamental concepts through a dive into Kalakshetra technique of Bharatanatyam. Participants will get a chance to explore emotion, story-telling and rhythm through their bodies and embody movement patterns such as crisp turns, deep plies, rhythmic grounded patterns with feet, classical hand gestures and graceful angular movements that are the signature of Bharatanatyam.
The dancers will get a chance to explore emotion, story-telling and rhythm through their bodies and embody movement patterns such as crisp turns, deep plies, rhythmic grounded patterns with feet, classical hand gestures and graceful angular movements that are the signature of Bharatanatyam.
Bio:
Nitya Seshadri Vedantam is a performer-teacher-choreographer of Bharatanatyam and Modern dance. She holds a diploma in Bharatanatyam from Kalakshetra and
a Master’s in Dance from Hyderabad Central University and an MFA in dance from SUNY Buffalo. She is currently an adjunct faculty at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches various courses including Global Dance Studies. She is an empanelled artiste of the Broadcasting Ministry of India. She has conducted several performances, master classes and workshops across the globe, including University at Buffalo, SUNY Fredonia, Purdue University, Ithaca College, Buffalo State College, Southern Utah University, Hyderabad Central University and MGI Mauritius.
Nitya’s conference presentations include ACDA North-East Regional Conference,
NYSDEA, NDEO and DSA. She has served as the graduate representative 2018-19, on the board of National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). Nitya also served as an adjunct faculty of dance at the Buffalo State College. Her dance style reflects the symbiosis between Bharatanatyam and modern dance, creating new avenues for movement exploration.
Kids class:
Adult Classes:
Labonee Mohanta, disciple of Kathak maestro Pandit Chitresh Das, began her training in Kathak dance at the early age of 8. She is a prominent solo artist, regularly performing Kathak solos to great acclaim in dance and music festivals throughout the United States, Canada, India, and Europe. Labonee has become renowned for dynamism in her dance, fiery footwork, subtlety and grace in movement, and performing some of the fastest pirouettes in the field of Indian dance today. She also employs the technique “Kathak Yoga” where she simultaneously sings the rhythmic cycle, dances complex mathematical patterns, and plays an instrument at the same time. Labonee is the Artistic Director of Lavanya Academy of Indian Arts in California, where she trains her dance company and teaches 50 students in 3 locations in the Bay Area.
**Prices increase October 4th
Kids: 10/8/2024
Time: 6:15PM- 7PM
Adults: 10/8/2024 & 10/9/2024
Time: 7-8:30PM
Celebrate Spring Equinox with us:
Why 108 Salutations? It is a meditative practice that connects the body, the mind, and the universe specifically when nature is undergoing a change.
Tuesday, 03/19/2024
7 – 9 pm
Cost: $25 |
Let’s go to Jamaica!!! Enjoy a movement class introducing the traditional folk and contemporary dances of Jamaica. Taught by Nicolette Ferguson, be prepared to engage your mind, body and soul. Don’t forget your water bottles and attire is bare feet and comfortable clothing.
Date: Friday, 01/12/2024
7-8:30pm
Sliding Scale $10-$25
Come learn something new or brush up on your skills! We will cover the basics of fan dance, and integrate footwork and whole-body movements to take your fan dancing to the next level. Please bring your own set of fans if possible. Extra fans will be available for practice but not for purchase.
Date: Friday, 01/12/2024
7-8:30pm
Sliding Scale $10-$25
This energetic Beginner Bhangra class will entice your head, shoulder, knees, and toes to get moving and grooving! Bhangra, is a folk dance from Punjab which is mainstream on social media and around the world. Join us for an evening of fun learning and easy dance moves.
Instructor: Sunny Soloman
Tuesdays 11/7, 11/14, 11/21
6:30 – 7:30pm
Cost: $23 per class
Garba is a fun dance form that originates from the state of Gujarat in India. The steps are easy to learn, and it’s fun to watch even if you’re not the dancing type! Garba is typically done during Navratri, it is a Hindu festival, literally meaning “nine nights”. While this festival is celebrated in various ways across India, Gujarat follows the prime tradition of performing Garba dance for nine nights as a symbol of respect for the goddess. Open to adults and kids
Friday, 10/13
7- 8:30pm
Cost: $20 | $30 (day of)
Friday 9/29 7-830pm
Saturday 9/30 6-730pm
Sunday 10/1 11-12:30pm
Wine and Snacks provided!
Wednesday, August 16th
Time: 7:00 – 9pm
Sold Out
The goal of this class is to strengthen the larger muscle groups of the body, building balance and stability, while incorporating the multiple benefits of a mindful yoga practice. In this class we will use physical postures (asanas), breathing exercises, and meditation to improve our overall health and wellness.
* We will have a live sitar player as a musical accompaniment.
Thursday, August 10th
Time: 7:00 – 8pm
Cost: $30
Saturday, July 29th
Time: 11:00 – 12:30pm
Cost: $30
In this free workshop we will focus on:
– Learn choreography from Gaitrie Subryan of Devi Bollywood and Megan Rakeepile from Mahatammoho Collective. The choreography will be an excerpt from our production “Find Your Beat”
– Afro-Caribbean and Indian/Bollywood movements, vocabulary and technique
– Discussions with drummers and choreographers about the creative process and artistic direction with this excerpt
– Rhythm, sounds, energy
This workshop is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program
