Akademi aims to promote South Asian dance in the UK by:
- Encouraging excellence in the practice of South Asian dance
- Establishing South Asian dance as a part of mainstream dance
- Increasing the wider enjoyment and understanding of South Asian dance forms
- Bringing as many people as possible in contact with the creativity of South Asian dance artists
- Ensuring South Asian dance artists are nurtured and recognised for the important contribution they make to today's society
- Promoting South Asian dance as an influential force in British art, society and education
