{"id":9883,"date":"2023-06-19T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2023-06-20T07:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:15:36","slug":"panchkula-aashna-bagri-dance-sports-athlete-wins-intl-dance-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/panchkula-aashna-bagri-dance-sports-athlete-wins-intl-dance-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Panchkula\u2019s Aashna Bagri, Dance Sports Athlete, Wins Int\u2019l Dance Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dancing is a hidden language of the soul \u2013 Martha Graham, Aashna Bagri\u2019s bio-profile begins with this note. A dance sports athlete from Chandigarh, Aashna is dancing away to glory at international dance events one after the other.<\/p>\n

\"Panchkula\u2019s<\/div>\n

21-yr-old Aashna Bagri from Panchkula recently won the Asia Open Championship<\/a> at the Asia Pacific Dance Congress(APDC) Season-2 held in Dubai recently in 20-35 age category, for the second time consecutively. Having won many dance competitions in India and abroad, she was the youngest Indian to have won the world salsa summit<\/a> held at Miami in 2020. At 14, she was also the youngest participant from India in Asian Indoor Games, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan , 2017.<\/p>\n

\"Panchkula\u2019s<\/div>\n

Reflecting on her achievement, Aashna says, \u201cThis is the second season of the APDC that I have won. This time around, I performed Bolly-Salsa fusion on the famous ram chahe leela chae ram<\/em>.. from Sanjay Leela Bhansali film Ram<\/em> Leela\u201d. She competed with over 100 dance enthusiasts\u00a0 from India and the UAE to win the APDC competition being judged by big-time choreographers like Salman Yusuf Khan, Tushar Kalia, Fernando Aguilera and Jai Kumar Nair.<\/p>\n

\"Aashna<\/div>\n

\u201cWhen she was a kid, whenever she used to hear any kind of music, she used to start \u00a0dancing. We tried every possible way to stop her from pursuing dancing professionally, but we finally had to give in to her persistence, passion and dedication,\u201d says Rekha Bagri, while speaking with CityWoofer<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

An alumna of Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, she has been passionate about dancing since she was 3-yr-old, while her professional dancing journey began when she was 11-yr-old.<\/p>\n

Her coach and mentor, Varun DS Rana, who runs his dance academy in Sector 6, Panchkula, has been instrumental in training her for the different competitions. \u201cUnder his guidance, I want to learn more and improve my skills further. I aim to become a renowned choreographer in the coming years,\u201d says Aashna. She has also undergone training in the US for her world performances. She has attended workshops of Indian dance choreographers like Shiamak Davar, Remo D’Souza, Saroj Khan, Terense Lewis, to name a few.<\/p>\n

\"Aashna<\/div>\n

Besides salsa, Aashna is also well-trained in waacking, belle, fusion, Bollywood, to name a few.\u00a0She is pursuing her bachelor\u2019s degree in business management from Mumbai University, along with training for Bollywood dancing and becoming a choreographer. Her mother is an Abacus trainer and father is a chartered accountant. The family lives in Sector 10, Panchkula.<\/p>\n

Her aim is to travel across the world with her dancing performances and become an ace choreographer. For now, she is focusing on entering dance reality shows on television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dancing is a hidden language of the soul \u2013 Martha Graham, Aashna Bagri\u2019s bio-profile begins with this note. A dance sports athlete from Chandigarh, Aashna is dancing away to glory at international dance events one after the other. 21-yr-old Aashna Bagri from Panchkula recently won the Asia Open Championship at the Asia Pacific Dance Congress(APDC) … <\/p>\n

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