Bring out your secret talent

Did you give up your dream of learning dance or a music instrument in your bid to focus on studies or job? You can now pursue those passions with the help of a new group, World Of Talent, which was started by a group of four diversely skilled youngsters, a month ago.Chetna Dua reports.

Did you give up your dream of learning dance or a music instrument in your bid to focus on studies or job? You can now pursue those passions with the help of a new group, World Of Talent, which was started by a group of four diversely skilled youngsters, a month ago.

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The idea of the group, which comprises Tripti Verma, Preet Chhatwal, Rahul Bhatt and Vivek Vaid, is to make people rediscover their long-lost talents.

“A lot of professionals in the city have a hidden talent that got sidelined in the humdrum of regular life. A budding musician might have given way to a chartered accountancy, a talented dancer could have ended up as a doctor or a budding artist is perhaps a corporate honcho today. This group helps people rediscover their talents with the help of one to two day-long workshops held on weekends, keeping students and working professionals in mind,” says Vaid, the co-organiser.

The group has had two workshops, one on drumming and another Western-African dance.

“We plan to have workshops on baking, poetry, shayari, guitar, glass-blowing, belly-dancing and more — based on what people demand,” says Verma, 26, a designer by profession and singer and tabla player at heart. Most workshops are priced between R300-R500.

The group is organising a bhangra workshop in the Capital on July 13, 14 with folk dancers from Patiala.

Catch it here

What: World of talent — to rediscover your talent
When: On weekends
What’s Next: Kathak Workshop on July 6 & 7, Bhangra Workshop on July 13 & 14
Where: Dance Studio, B-19 Soami Nagar, Next to Panchsheel Park
Nearest metro station: Hauz Khas on the Yellow Line