Interview with Lourd Vijay (founder –Director of LVDS)

Posted on 06 June 2010.

Lourd Vijay (founder –Director of LVDS) is a phenomenal dancer, an innovative choreographer and a very able instructor. Of his most recent accomplishments, Lourd Vijay counts being invited to conduct Salsa workshops at the World Salsa Congress, Italy and thrilling workshops conducted by him in Colombo and Bangkok, and at Salsa Festivals in Hong Kong. He also has fond memories of choreographing and working in many theatre productions and Bollywood Production including the Jackie Chan starrer ‘The Myth”

Can you tell us how and when did you get in to salsa? Who inspired you?

Ans: Got into salsa in 1996 after getting enamoured by the form while watching the movie Dirty dancing and My first tryst and physical experience with Salsa happened in Toronto, Canada during about the same time.

Richard and sneha are the most successful dancers to conme out of lvds? How has thier success changed you and lvds?

Ans: Yes they are the most famous Indian salsa dancers on the international scene. After having won the European open salsa masters, the australian salsa classic, being the first indians to qualify for the ESPN world salsa championship n reaching the finals of India’s got talent….Yes their success has made us popular on the Indian entertainment scene and people have begun to recognize us as a premier dance insitution in the country with many international titles to our credit. I have also been appointed the Ambassador of the Hong kong salsa festival n judge of the Asia pacific salsa open championship, the fact that I brought salsa to India is another feather to our cap, So these achievements have been brought to the fore in the main stream.

what are the plans this year for 5th Annual India International Salsa congress? Can you give us a preview on what we can expect?

Ans: Will send it in the next mail…Click here for details

I understand you have spread out lvds in Bangalore, chennai and also in Delhi? When can we see a great dance school like yours in Mumbai?

Ans: Very very soon…

what are you future plans to promote salsa? Any more TV shows happening?

Ans: Oh there are a lot of plans to promote salsa and dance…

But something big is underway on a mass media platform… Which the whole country will witness soon.a lot of work has been carried out under the “B a star” project which was initially called the street kids dance initiative. About 600 kids from socio economically weaker sections have benefitted from the program… And we are looking forward to taking dance to each n everyone of them thru this initiative.

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