Xplore Salsa was started in April, 2004 by Ravi Akhade . Along with his Indian Bollywood and Western dance, his salsa moves were highly appreciated... with one branch and 15 students… over the years he has progressed to 8 branches

Xplore Salsa’s basket of Experience has students, corporate events ,choreography, workshops, performances, social salsa dancing at clubs etc, has done regional films, serials in channels like Zee, Star Plus, Sony TV. & Sahara One.

Ravi Akhade a young man dancing since a very young age, his Journey…………..

1998 - 2001Was a part of Dolls Delite Dance Company where he started instructing and training at a very young age, besides doing stage shows for this organization

2001- 2006In these years he formed a company known as Creations where he participated and performed for various cultural festivals in different colleges and did stages shows. His forte at this time was BOLLYWOOD ,HIP HOP and other western dance formsRealizing his potential he decided to join classes to be trained in Salsa, and then there was no end to it.

In 2006 he started his very own first salsa classes in Andheri East at Sher Punjab with 38 students.

Xplore Dance Company (XDC) very soon got the opportunity to work with the Television Industry

Ravi Akhade Coreographed dances for tele serials like

2006-2007 - Sujata 2007- 2008 - Bidai on Sony TV

- Sa Re Ga Ma on Zee TV - 4 months To add on to the experience XDC also choreographed for 16 private albums

Ravi Akhade and his company XDC gained name and fame at the very earlier stage. He was called to choreographed and handle annual event of Corporate Companies

2006- 2008Orchid Hotel learnt of XDC and appointed him as their official choreographer for 2 yrs and also gave the responsibility to handle the entire event, which included everything from choreography to production

2006-2009JP Morgan appointed XDC to handle their annual event for 3 consecutive years

Besides these XDC did annual event for Corporate events like Expidetres, Kamino Logistic and ASK.

Ravi Akhade gained name and fame since his college days as a choreographer and performer, and when XDC was formed it gave him the opportunity to explore different colleges and showcase his talent. XDC was being called for choreographing dances for major college events and also dances for their annual functions and workshops for their students….

• Events like • Malhar• Umang• Kshitg• Kalidoscope• Brooohaa Haaahaaa• Mood Indigo • Youth Festival and many more

Colleges includeBhavans , Wilson, R.D Nationals, KJ Somaya, GLC, SNDT,SIES, NM, DJ Sanghavi and more

Very soon after the success of XDC, it decided to have its own Salsa / dance parties at different places like……

Shimmer (Malad)Banana Bar (Bandra)MTC (Bandra)Flamboyate Bombay 72’o East (Juhu)Play (Lower Parel)H2O (Bandra)Vie Lounge (Andheri)

November 2009 was the year of a great leap for XDC XDC for the first time organized the most awaited MUMBAI SALSA FESTIVAL

“Salsa Fiesta – Dance Fest “ For the first time ever the top instructors of Bombay came under one roof to teach ,

Enjoy , dance with the students. The Salsa Fiesta was a dance fest which brought different western dance forms under one including jive, hip hop, contemporary and many more.

XDC INITIATIVE

Currently XDC runs its classes at the following places and the numbers just keep on increasing…

Arogayam gym Borivali westPro – Fit center Kandivali eastSpectra Club, Kandivali Body Attitude Malad westEco Fitness, Goregoan West Waves gym Andheri West Matoshree Club, Andheri East

Founder & DirectorAddress:-1773, 7th Flr, Prathemesh Bldg, Opp Hub Mall, Goregoan East, Mumbai – 65

Namrata ThakurOperations Manager , Xplore Dance Company

4th Flr, 9/D Chunam Lane, Lamington Rd, Mumbai 400007

Email:- info@xploresalsa.in xploresalsamumbai@gmail.com

Call :- 9820988025 / 9892077657

Website :- www.xploresalsa.in

Ravi Akhade