they call themselves the bawse ladies and thats just one of the names that the citys only allgirl jazz dance grew has for this gang of six prefer to say that they represent mumbais vibe were like the city modern sassy and vibrant says group founder svetana kanwar they can rock the floor with kickass moves do a few mean pirouettes while youre still wondering where they learnt to move that way and ooze sensuality too meet mumbais bom squad a group of ladies who are on a mission to save the jazz dance form teaching their skill to others and breaking a few stereotypes along the way toonot easy to make the switch from academics to jazzjazz dance is about energetic fluid movements it encourages grace and balance jazz dance is about energetic fluid movements it encourages grace and balancethe crew of six svetana kanwar radhika mayadev roshini nair vedika agarwal diksha bharti and riya sood who often do commercial shows and recently performed at a music festival at pune it hasnt been easy to get where they are as svetana kanwar group founder says jazz dance is hard work those stepballchange and pirouettes look smooth but they dont come easy having set off to learn the dance form just as a therapy to help her through a rough patch in her life little did this fashion marketing student from dehradun know that years later it would become her career and thats the similar story with the rest of them too adds radhika mayadev who talked her parents out of doing an academic programme to take up jazz dance and thats what ive been doing every day of my life since i was 16 she saysfor roshini nair commerce student it was even tougher my parents didnt support me initially i come from a strict south indian family and as i was a bharatnatyam dancer and they didnt want to shift to the western form i told them to just give me a few years to prove that i could juggle my ca course with my practice and thankfully it all worked out today they love the way i dance and are proud of me she smileson bollywood music why nottheyve danced on hindi music songs tootheyve danced on hindi music songs toowhen people normally think of jazz they may just conjure up an image of a saxophone but there is so much more to it than that says svetana jazz can actually be interpreted in any way we have such good hindi songs so we thought why should we only use english music to showcase what we do weve grooved to main yaar manana ni and kabhi aar kabhi paar we also did in aankhon ki masti ke with a bollywood vibe it was such fun she addsjazz dance per se is of many kinds contemporary punk street style lyrical and commercial of these we do commercial the most as that is what the audience