One room, five skill levels
Slow down and you lose the advanced dancers. Speed up and you lose the beginners. Here, everyone learns at their own pace.
I've spent my career building platforms. I've spent my life dancing.
For years, I never thought those two things had anything to do with each other. Then I found myself, once again, staring at a 20-second dance reel—watch, pause, rewind, try, rewind again—trying to teach myself a few counts of choreography. I've always loved dancing, but learning this way was painfully inefficient. I'd eventually find a tutorial, only to discover it was 30-45 minutes long when I really needed five. And I kept wondering: why does learning dance online feel so much harder than it should? The more I thought about it, the more I realized the problem wasn't the lack of content; it was that the lesson never really met me. A beginner and an experienced dancer were being given the same tutorial, at the same pace, in the same format. But that's not how a great teacher teaches. A great teacher watches you, sees where you are, and changes the lesson.
That realization hit me differently because of what I've spent my professional life doing. For more than a decade, I've built platforms—thinking about how technology can take something valuable and make it easier to discover, easier to access, and capable of reaching far beyond its original boundaries. And suddenly I was looking at dance through the same lens. I knew how to build the platform. I knew what it felt like to be the dancer who needed it. The two halves of my life had finally found each other. I couldn't stop thinking about what dance learning could feel like if technology adapted to the dancer instead of asking the dancer to adapt to the technology. I wasn't looking to start another company. I had simply stumbled into a problem that was personal enough to bother me, and familiar enough to know I could do something about it. So I started building WizDance.
— Rupali SharmaFounder & CEO, WizDance