DANCE styles from around the world are on offer in a new season of classes run by Swindon Dance.

Some of the more exotic courses on offer range from Egyptian dance, flamenco and bharatanatyam a classical Indian dance.

All the regular classes including tap, jazz, ballet, are again available in the new season with places on the popular courses likely to be booked up quickly.

Egyptian dancing is described as a graceful style using rhythmic movements of the hips and torso. Jose Garcia teaches flamenco, the flamboyant Spanish dance with lots of rhythmic clapping and foot stamping.

And bharatanatyam, an ancient dance form from south India, is available to people of all ages with four classes scheduled for Wed-nesday evenings.

Based at the Town hall studios in Regents' Circus, Swindon Dance has two dance studios.

A series of workshops to accompany its summer performance season is also being staged.

So before a display of Argentine tango on May 16, audience members can have a go at the passionate dance themselves.

And young people can join in either a workshop in Bollywood dance or a classical Indian dance on Sunday June 15 with the Sonia Sabri Company, which will be performing a fusion of Indian folk dance with western dance on June 20.

And for the more contemporary dance enthusiast, a boys only Hip Hop workshop run by the Kompany Malakhi is taking place on Sunday June 22 and the group perform a dance drama on Sunday June 27.

Claire Fantini, spokeswoman for Swindon Dance, said: "We run classes for toddlers right through to people in their eighties."

For more details contact 463210.