MIGHTYY MOVE’S DANCE & MUSIC STUDIO
Paramount Golf Foreste, UPSIDC Site C, Zeta I, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201311, India
MIGHTYY MOVE’S DANCE & MUSIC STUDIO
Located on the third floor of the Riverside Arcade, 42 East Brunswick Ave, MIGHTYY MOVE’S feels more like an artist hide-out than a commercial school. A freight-size elevator opens into a sun-lit foyer decorated with student-painted sneakers hanging from the ceiling like mobiles and a mural that lists every genre ever taught here—“kathak, kwaito, gqom, Chicago footwork, bossa nova, bollywood”—in dripping spray-paint script. Sweet-cardamom incense drifts from a small reception niche where Ms. Priya, co-founder and chief shoe-mender, dispenses schedules, ginger tea, and perfectly timed pep talks.
The main studio, 1,600 square feet of sprung maple, occupies the old ice-skating rink’s footprint; the refrigeration pipes are still exposed as industrial relics overhead. Sound comes from two wall-mounted Funktion-One stacks flanking a Yamaha Montage 8 workstation on a rolling riser. A ceiling grid of Edison bulbs can dim from rehearsal white to nightclub amethyst at the touch of a fader, letting teachers toggle between drill-sergeant clarity and party glow. Mirrors along the north wall are actually switch-glass panels that frost opaque for intimate instrumental rehearsals by day, then turn transparent for Friday open cyphers.
Behind the studio, a warren of smaller rooms functions as a micro-conservatory. Studio B is sound-treated with up-cycled denim; it holds a full V-drum kit connected to Ableton Live and a ribbon-microphone lounge where students lay down TikTok samples. Studio C doubles as an Indian classical chamber—tablas sit beside a 1930s Harmonium rescued from Kolkata—while Studio D hosts an upright Story & Clark piano painted matte black with gold “RESILIENCE” lettering. Every door has a chalkboard square; the hashmarks inside track personal progress rather than attendance.
Monthly passes are pay-what-you-can, subsidized by corporate team-building workshops that MIGHTYY MOVE’S runs at noon—lawyers awkwardly popping, tech bros puffing through bhangra cardio. All those drop-in fees feed a scholarship fund; last year the studio sent two Bronx teens to Ghana for the Chale Wote dance festival and installed six local foster kids with free studio time.
The heartbeat, though, is the nightly community session, 7-9 p.m., open to anyone with clean shoes. A DJ laptop cycles through resident playlists: soulful house that melts into Detroit techno, then pivots to tabla loops before a programmed blend into lilting triple-meter waltz. On Tuesdays there are 30-minute guided improvisational labs—just bodies, a hand drum, and the rule that every sound must answer a movement. By midnight, the lights drop to ultraviolet, shoes come off, and the floor becomes an undulating carpet of socked feet swirling under the giant disco-ball soccer ball bought at a World Cup lost-and-found sale. In that quiet darkness, the original lettering of the rink—“Ice Dreams 1982”—glimmers faintly under the new coat of paint, reminding everyone that the building’s history and future are literally dancing on the same surface.
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- Published: August 5, 2025
