Payal Kadakia was just 27 when she came up with the idea for the popular app ClassPass, but it wasn't her first time building something from the ground up. In 2008, she created a dance company that reimagines classical Indian dance for a modern American audience.

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Payal Kadakia, known for founding the fitness app ClassPass, also created SA Dance Company in 2008 to bring a modern perspective to classical Indian dance in the United States. The company, made up primarily of Indian American women—many of whom are mothers—has performed at prominent venues such as Lincoln Center and the White House.

Members of the group describe dance as both a cultural expression and a source of emotional support, helping them navigate personal challenges and motherhood. SA Dance Company is now preparing for its first national tour, titled 'Rise,' with performances scheduled for this year and the next.

ClassPass founder's company reimagines classical Indian dance

If you've ever signed up for a workout through the popular app, ClassPass, you can thank Payo Kodakia. She was just 27 years old when she came up with the idea that reached a billion dollar valuation in 2020. But it wasn't her first time building something special. In 2008, she created SA, Dance Company. It reimagines classical Indian dance for a modern American audience. Chanel Call shows us how a group of young moms helped bring SA to the biggest stages. What song do you want? Come. Hot to Go. Hot to Go? It's after school at Payo Kodakia's Los Angeles home, which means it's time for an old-fashioned dance party. The mom of two first fell in love with dance as a toddler. She was introduced to classical Indian steps by a friend of her parents, who immigrated from India in the 70s. Kodakia trained and competed for years. Did you see it as a career when you were little? Dancing? Yeah. My parents took a huge risk coming here. They wanted to make sure I got a good education, had a secure job. And so I did the right thing, like I checked all the boxes for them. By 2010, Kodakia had graduated from MIT and was living and working in New York City when the then-27-year-old wanted to take a ballet class. I remember at that time, you know, we booked restaurant reservations on open table. So the idea just sort of like snapped into me of why not create an open table for classes? That idea became ClassPass, an app that lets people book fitness classes across workout studios without long-term commitments. But while building the business, Kodakia never let go of what inspired it. Even my team would sometimes say to me if I was stressed out, they're like, when was last time you danced? She founded Saw Dance Company to fill another gap in the market, this time offering a style of dance her community had never seen. Kodakia chose dancers from across the country, all Indian American, many of them mothers. Between like feedings and, you know, our work schedules, it's truly just how we breathe. I think for me, this is a core aspect of who I am. These women have been in lockstep through some of the hardest parts of motherhood. I found Saw through a very tough moment of grief in my life. We had just lost our first child in utero, and I was completely shattered and heartbroken. And I just remember working with the women, meeting Payal, and we've become sisters over time because we really go through moments of vulnerability. We'll dance and I'll start crying because I'm like doing the dance for my son, or I'm thinking about something that happened when I was like having, you know, trouble when I was pregnant. It kind of sounds like dance is your therapy. 100%. Yes. Their shows have garnered rave reviews. Saw performed at New York City's Lincoln Center in 2018 and was the first Indian troop ever to dance inside the White House. Now the group is preparing for its first national tour called Rise. There's always 800 other things that we can do with our time. We fight for it. And that's what I always say to other people. It's like, you have to protect it because if you don't protect it, other people aren't going to protect it for you. All right, so if you like what you see, you can catch these ladies on tour this year and next year as well.

President Trump announced Thursday that he would "permanently pause" immigration from "Third-World Countries." The declaration comes as the Trump administration takes aim at U.S. immigration policies in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.

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Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup, after he exhausted all appeals.

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