LIVE PROJECTS
Artistic Residency, Azerbaijan
Effective May 2024, Junoon has partnered with DanceAbility Azerbaijan (DAA), in an effort to make movement spaces more inclusive and equitable...
Cultural Collaboration, Izmir, Turkey
Effective December 2023, Junoon began presenting Classical Dance at Arts Centres in Izmir, Turkey. Beginning with a demonstrative performance...
Rural Outreach, Dhasa, India
Our Junoon first began with this endeavour in Rural Saurashtra. It grows every day, all over the region of Dhasa and beyond, reaching more village Girls and Women, bringing them one step closer to Classical Movement and the supporting Arts and Sports...
Rural Outreach, Tamil Nadu
In January 2023, Junoon partnered with Sharana, a social and developmental organization in Pondicherry, India to carry Classical Dance and Movement in a therapeutic capacity to Women and Girls who are economically disadvantaged and victims of abuse in the rural region of Angalakuppam...
THE JUNOON GURUKUL
The Junoon Arts Empowerment Program, in association with the Dagger Division of the Indian Army, Baramulla, Kashmir
Through this program, we hope to empower the children of the Baramulla region with creativity, empathy and the Classical Arts – specifically Classical Movement rooted in the Classical Dance forms of Ballet and Bharata Natyam.
See MoreFOOTSTEPS TO FREEDOM' PROGRAM, MUMBAI, INDIA
Dance as a medium allows children to express themselves, channel their emotions, and develop a sense of identity and confidence. The Classical Dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Classical Ballet, with their rich cultural heritage and disciplined practice, teach children about their cultural roots while also providing a modern outlook through our unique and all-encompassing approach to training.
See MoreTHE JUNOON FELLOWSHIP
The Junoon Fellowship is a unique opportunity for students currently in secondary school to explore their artistic inclinations, passions and curiosities.
Centred on Classical Dance, the fellowship will have students discover the different Classical Arts - Performative, Fine and Literary - that are relevant to Dance and in doing so come to understand their own willingness and capacities for this variety of Art forms.
The idea is to communicate and convince that the Arts are as important a pursuit as any. That aspiring to a career in the Arts entails incredible commitment and limitless possibility, perspective and passion.
It prioritizes the athletic, dramatic and academic inclinations of the students as dancing is such a physical, expressive art form with its origins in ancient literature.
ABOUT US
Junoon is a Foundation committed to building an awareness and diffusion of Classical Dance in India and Globally.
We pioneer Classical Arts and Movement initiatives all over the world, with partners, patrons and professionals, to benefit and empower the socio-economically disadvantaged and marginalized communities with a knowledge, understanding and practice of the Arts.
JUNOON IN HOUSTON
In Oct '24, Junoon arrived in Houston, Texas, to receive its accreditation from Dr. Rathna Kumar, a stalwart of an artiste who has established the Anjali Centre for Performing Arts in Sugarland, Houston and has been a pioneer of the Arts in the United States of America for half a century.
Rathna Aunty (as we fondly call her), our Guru, has long been a champion of Junoon. She has handheld us step by step in creating our Indian Classical Dance curriculum, which she contributes to regularly as we train under her tutelage and guidance.
See MoreAccreditations and Affiliations
Junoon is partnered and powered by, certified and affiliated with the following prestigious institutions:
THE JUNOON METHOD
As we script The Junoon Methodology, take a look at the workshops, programs and Artistic Fitness initiatives that Junoon conducts, curated to the needs of the institution/s we work with.
CROSS CURRICULAR PROGRAM
The Junoon Method is a unique, immersive, inclusive and holistic curriculum designed to deliver training in and an understanding of Classical Dance and related Arts, Sciences, Sports and Studies to a student of Junoon.
Read MoreARTISTIC FITNESS
This program employs Classical and Balletic technique to lengthen, strengthen and prepare musculature for artistic movement and a fun fitness routine for those looking to flow Classically.
Read MoreCultural Collaboration at BSB Arts, Izmir
This famed Arts Centre in Izmir, Turkey, hosts a cultural exchange of performances, activities and workshops with us. We present and discover new pathways to intertwine, better appreciate and perform Sufi, Turkish, Balletic and Indian Classical Dance concepts and choreography.
Read MorePORTFOLIOS
Art is never without purpose.
Hence, Junoon is here for a reason.
Or many…
The Logo of Junoon is fiery, passionate and powerful as the name suggests.
It has been hand drawn by an artist who was inspired to create a symbol of light, energy and intensity – The three relentless children of Art.
The torch directs, the script runs along.
Art, after all, is both focused and flowy. Inside the word “Junoon”, it dances with passion, poise, purpose and perpetuity
The word dances. And so does the world of Junoon…
View MoreJUNOON is fuelled by the certainty that dancing – classical, contemporary, casual or correct – contrary to popular belief, is for everybody.
Even when you stumble and fall, As do we all, JUNOON seeks to put dance at hand when anybody needs to reach out!
Dance is the most powerful Art of non-verbal communication.
It uses and heightens the most natural human stimulus to move.
That this movement can go right to someone’s soul is what makes Dance an Art form. And Art is for everybody, irrespective of age, gender, size, stature, state and stage.
This is everything that’s on offer for everyone…
View MoreArt is often the privilege of a few. It shouldn’t be. Just as clean air, water, shelter, clothing and full bellies don’t fall into the laps of us all, Art has been stowed away into treasure chests that are unlocked by a chosen few. Its inaccessibility is our collective embarrassment.
Art is a good thing. It does us all so much good.
Good things that do good things are a necessity. It is for this reason that Art, privilege as it may be, must extend to one and all…
View MoreArt is meant to be liberating.
This freedom extends to the realm of Classical Dance.
JUNOON, as a movement, an organization, a brand and a collective for the awareness, training, dissemination, practice and performance of Classical Dance holds no biases of gender, language, religion or story line.
In so far as who can dance, what can be danced and why the dance is danced.
View MoreOur publications have been written to acquaint readers with Classical Dance.
Our hope is that it will reach readers who love Classical Dance, Who love it without knowing much about it, Without knowing why they love it.
Our hope is that it will move people who have never witnessed a Classical Dance performance to discover what they have missed.
As for the connoisseurs, we hope to give you a candid view of how practitioners of the Art…
View MoreTake a quick, consolidated Walkthrough Junoon
View MoreTHE JUNOON SHOP AND ART
THE PUBLICATIONS
Our first offering, a written collection, is now available for purchase. More details on individual pieces follow...
ANGA
The body is a dancer’s biggest instrument. This publication presents theories and directives passed down...
AAGHAAZ
Where and how do we make a beginning with Classical Dance? This publication has all the answers.
APPEALS
As a part commercial and part philanthropic organization, Junoon is a very young foundation with high aspirations. Join our movement to enable an awareness and diffusion of the Classical Arts by contributing to the project and development initiative of your choice
INFRASTRUCTURE
Explore our most immediate requirements to expand infrastructure across projects.
Read MorePRODUCTIONS & MORE
This is everything Junoon aspires to and is working towards in view of Pedagogy and Productions. Trace our journey from seed to tree to a forest fire!
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