Performance · Class · Festival

Tell us whatyou’re planning.

Invite ABC to perform at a theatre, festival, company event or celebration. For classes, workshops and GIDF, the routes below take you to the right organiser.

ABC artistic director Swapnil Dagliya performing Tera Taali, smiling with brass pots balanced on his head

ideas welcome. details helpful.

01 · Booking

Invite us
to perform.

Forty-plus stages since 2017 — theatres, city squares, festivals, company evenings and weddings, from a solo to the full company.

Nothing here is binding. A rough date and a rough budget are enough to start a useful conversation.

Optional. Include the country code if you would rather we called.

Optional, and a range or “not decided yet” is fine — it tells us what shape of company fits.

What you send reaches us by email through Web3Forms, and goes nowhere else. How we handle it.

Trouble sending? Use the Shoonya contact form instead — it reaches the same desk.

Just want to hear about new shows? Get ABC news — a few emails a year.

Choose the shortest route

What kind
of question?

One of these is a form on this page. Workshops, choreography and private coaching are hired from Swapnil personally. Weekly classes run at Shoonya Dance Centre, and the Gent India Dans Festival takes enquiries through the same Shoonya contact form — those routes hand you over.

We normally reply within three working days.

01 · Booking

A performance by the company

A theatre, a festival, a company party or a wedding. Bring the date, city, venue, rough audience size and the feeling you want to create.

Invite us to perform ↓
02 · Learn with Swapnil

Workshops & coaching

Event workshops, choreography commissions and private one-to-one coaching, online or in Ghent — hired from Swapnil personally.

Visit swapnil.dance ↗
03 · Classes & festival

Weekly classes or a GIDF idea

Weekly classes, artist proposals, partnerships and volunteering for the Gent India Dans Festival all go through the Shoonya contact form.

Go to the Shoonya form ↗

Start with hello

Rough ideas welcome. Really.

dates can come later.

What happens next

A useful reply,
not a sales script.

For bookings, we first check the date, travel and practical shape of the event. Then we discuss the format, company size and preparation the venue needs.

For workshops or private coaching, we point you to Swapnil directly. Class and festival questions go to Shoonya Dance Centre through its contact form.

Clear details lead to a better idea.

3Working days to reply
GhentHome base
EuropeWhere the company travels
OneForm on this page

Home base

Find us
in Ghent.

Shoonya Dance Centre
Stapelplein 41
9000 Ghent, Belgium

Classes, rehearsals and much of the festival programme begin here. Event bookings can travel across Belgium and internationally.

Refund policy · Shoonya Dance Centre

The practical
small print.

Tickets and event registrations

Tickets for showcases, workshops and events are non-transferable and non-refundable. If you do not come, the ticket is not refunded.

Classes and miniseries

Membership, workshop and miniseries fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. They are fixed amounts and cannot be divided. Missed lessons or sessions are not refunded.

Medical exception: after an absence of at least five weeks with a valid medical certificate, you may request to freeze a membership or miniseries registration and transfer it to another season. A transfer must be used within one year of your original start date.

If a session is cancelled

If Shoonya Dance Centre cancels a class, workshop or miniseries session, you get a replacement or a rescheduled session.

Where you actually pay

ABC does not take payment on this site. Registrations and tickets are handled at Shoonya Dance Centre — through shoonyadance.com and its registration system — and this policy is the one that applies there.

Some dates are sold by the festival or venue hosting them, through their own box office. Those sales run under that organiser’s terms, not these, so check theirs before you buy.

Force majeure and administration

Two different situations, kept apart on purpose. If you cannot come — a no-show, a missed lesson, a change of plan — the fee is not refunded. If we cancel a class, workshop or session, you get a replacement or a rescheduled session.

In the event of force majeure — war, uprising, fire and the like — refunds are not possible.

Where a refund is granted as an exception, an administration fee of €25 is deducted from the amount refunded.