Training across New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Brazil, regional Australia, and her purple bedroom, Vanessa Marian Varghese is particularly fascinated with street dance and the way it is born outside of the dance studio context. In 2016 Vanessa founded Groove Therapy, aimed at making dance accessible to all walks of life. The program has brought dance to at-risk youth, Indigenous communities, dementia sufferers, refugee girls and the every-day person, using the political and healing foundations that these street dance styles are built upon and mindfully appropriating it in new communities to help spark global conversation and cultural understanding. As a dance professional, her other credits include an Adidas sponsorship and movement direction for Victorias secret, nike, Bonds, G-Star Raw and MTV. However, at the base of it all, dance for her has always been a way of finding more mental well-being. Vanessa is both a lifelong student and working teacher and you can take classes with her through groove therapy’s online platform. Check out her work through her portfolio and if you want to take some dance classes head over to Groove Therapy’s website.

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SHOW NOTES

-Vanessa’s portfolio website and instagram
-Groove Therapy’s website and instagram
-Kuchipudi Indian traditional dance
-Routines and Ruts podcast interview
-Musician: FKJ
-Daughters Opera in Dehli
-The Wing co-working space
-The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
-Amy Zhang, dancer & new Groove Therapy manager

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