SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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A Bollywood dance group with Swedish origin

The group has been disbanded (October 2010)

A presentation of the members:

Johanna Sommansson is a Swedish Hindi-speaking anthropologist who studies for her Masters degree and teaches dance classes in Bollywood-dance.
Elsa Lindström is a Swedish Hindi-speaking enthusiastic businesswoman with a Masters Degree in Business administration and economics who teaches dance classes in Bollywood-dance.
Sofie Börjesson is a Human Rights activist and Hindi learner who studies for masters and teach dance classes in Bollywood-dance.
Pia Åhlberg is a Anthropologist who specialises in minority issues, performs with Sangam and also studies for her Master.

History of Sangam:

Sangam is a dance group that was founded by three eager Indology students at Stockholm University in Sweden. They choose the name to illustrate the Sangam, the meeting of the river goddesses Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati in northern India. They also liked the old Hindi movie with the same title. The group members used to watch Bollywood films at Hindi classes and write reports on them, as home assignments, and they absolutely adored the heroes, heroines and most of all, the dance numbers.
Later they went to India for a course in intermediate Hindi, spent some time in Bombay and came across some Bollywood talent scouts. They got set up on a shooting right in film city, and met Mr Amitabh Bachchan and the lovely Miss Rani Mukherjee. Later they even starred in a dance number of a big Bollywood film.
Stunned and overwhelmed by this experience they went back to Stockholm University and did their first performance in Sweden, in the fall of 2005. It was the song Bole Chudiyan, originally starring Kareena Kapoor, for the movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. This unique performance paved the way for numerous shows and great success for Sangam.

Today

They teach dance classes, workshops, bachelorette parties, wedding performances, birthday parties and graduation parties. They enjoy the sweet tunes of Bollywood and are often told that they bring a lot of positive energy to the audience. The Sangam girls simply love Bollywood and perform with a coordinated dance in true Bollywood style. Their passion for dance is beyond all limits.

Visit Sangams website with pictures from various occasions; http://www.sangam.se