It was last year when Tripti Arya, who runs NGO Arya Group Foundation, first took her two sons, aged nine and five, for a ballet performance of Swan Lake. Seeing how much they had enjoyed it, Arya thought to herself how it would have been nice to expose her children to the Indian classical art form. "It wasn't always about them turning out to be good dancers, but just to have them appreciate something that is very much part of our culture," she says.

But, as a Kuchipudi dance exponent herself, Arya felt that most Indian classical dance events were very esoteric in nature, meant only for "those who understood the depths" of the form. It's the need to create a more involved space for the younger generation, which led her to curate the Bhramara Festival of Dance, along with ShowHouse Events.