❈ About Us

LAASYA aims to be a premiere belly dance art and performing school, based in Kolkata. The Founder, Aakriti Prasad started on this journey of belly dance in 2006 when she began to learn Oriental Belly dance, and it has been a long way forward to now establishing a school of her own in 2017.. 

Laasya belly dance is the first and only belly dance school in all of Eastern India with having had over 2000 students across India and globally in a span of 5 years.

Her vision is for a fraternity which believes in taking this art form to new statures, and be given an open space and encouragement for creativity and voice, irrespective of gender, body or community.

❈ Belly dance in Kolkata

Aakriti Prasad started studying Oriental middle eastern dance in 2005, amongst a handful few in all of India. She is trained extensively by international faculty and schools around the world & teaches :

Raqs Sharqi / classical egyptian

Middle Eastern Folk belly dance

Tribal Fusion Belly dance (USA)

Indian Fusion Belly dance

Belly-wood

Aakriti has also been trained over two decades in Odissi as well as Waacking, House, Popping, Vogueing, Latin dance, Bollywood, Indian Folk dances, Movement therapy, Yoga and Kalaripayattu.

Over this journey, the research process of movement symphony, evolution of dance and cultural history began.And hence began

infusion ~Laasya style of fusion bellydance.