We always get this questions by people who do not know the art-forms.

That why Seperate Names For Each Programs?

We thought we will pen it, finally!

Bharatnatyam Dances:

Bharatanatyam Students DO NOT want to even hear about what Bollywood/movie dance students are doing.

Funny but true that they are perfectly fine having Indian Folk Dances around during recital times but they want to hear ONLY BHARATANATYAM NEWS.

But they want something of their own that they can rule it for whole 2-3 hours. All that makeup and costumes takes 1 hour just to begin and you just can’t learn dance and leave it there. How to learn to be creative as you walk in this journey!

Thus, Anantha dance production series was started to bring out the creativity in this art form…

Here, check our Signature Bharatnatyam Program

Indian Folk Dances:

Indian Folk Dance students DO NOT want to see Bollywood/Indian Movie Dances posts anywhere happening in their newsfeed or anywhere around them. To them, culture is lost in peppy beats and those thumkas are not ok! Forget about infusing them together.

But they want something of their own that they can rule it for whole 2-3 hours. All that makeup and costumes takes 1 hour just to begin and you just can’t learn dance and leave it there. How to learn to be creative as you walk in this journey!

Thus, Anantha dance production series was started to bring out the creativity in this art form…

Here, check our Signature Indian Folk Dance Program.

We are proud of what is not in these dances 🙂

Bollywood Dances :

Indian Movie Dances/Bollywood/Tollywood/Whatever-ALL wood 🙂 students do not want to even hear the Carnatic Music! And Folk Music is not always appealing to people who have lived half of their life talking about movie stars and hearing those peppy beats!

Forget about seeing their dances on one page and don’t even talk about ta tai tai tha..

Here, check our Signature Bollywood/Tollywood Dance Program.

Grace Creations :

Fusion dances is whole new story and is not everybody cup of tea.

Whoever dives in it will have to do the trainings.

Why ?

• So that they don’t harm their body while trying something new that their body does not identify..
• So that they can dance all their life in-spite of all the wear and tear that their body goes through..
• So that you can look beautiful and be exceptionally creative.

Guess what, Students of Fusion Dances at Grace And Grooves LLC can still define their dance moves with names 🙂 And yes, all of them has NAMES.

Here, check our Signature Grace Creations Program.

Above ALL what differs from Audience & Dances is : Some businesses or dance academies are bought either from Hetal Nagaraj’s own partnerships or bought in full price, as is with full inventory. This is other reason, why these names cannot be changed. The presence of these academies in various social medias were so vast before the merger with Hetal Nagaraj that it makes it impossible to merge on any platform other than putting them in the websites. No Social Media merges these accounts due to differences in services. But otherwise, Check one of the speciality of Hetal Nagaraj : Mergers & Acquisitions.

Still wondering why ????

Join these programs for just 1 year at

Grace And Grooves

And you will have your answers. 

Call NOW : 972 979 2559.

Other than that, some of the businesses were either our service providers or partnered or bought by hetal nagaraj herself. She specializes in mergers, acquisitions, partnerships & business/commerce infrastructure by her main stream education degree. Read about her : www.hetaln.com. Talk about about receiving lot of good vibes and blessings from all the right people, grapes have never been sour for us. #training.

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Rinku Bhattarcharya Das

Rinku Bhattacharya Das was initiated to the world of Kathak dance by her mother Smt Mallika Bhattacharya disciple of Guru Acchan Maharajji and Guru Laxminarayanji of Gunijankahana Jaipur. Ever since winning the prestigious Indian national dance scholarship from West Bengal Governor B.D. Pande at age 5 she continued her  training from Smt Bela Arnab ( Dean of Kathak dance Rabindra Bharati University).

She broadened her understanding of indian  classical dance forms by receiving rigorous  training in Manipuri Dance from  Guru Bipin Singh,Kalavati Devi and Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri. She was introduced to the world of contemporary dance by renowned Manipuri and Contemporary Dance artiste Sri Sanjib Bhattacharya .  As a solo and a performing artiste in both  classical and contemporary art forms she has performed in various prestigious dance programmes and festivals of India and USA. She is currently the Director of Nrityajyotidance Academy, North Carolina, USA which is devoted to the dissemination, training and promotion of the classical as well as contemporary performing arts based on Guru Shishya tradition and helps in promoting  them  internationally.

Receiving 2012-2013 Ella Pratt Fountain Emerging Artist Award from Durham Arts council NC,USA

Some of her Major Performances in India and abroad:

• North American Bengali Conference, Las Vegas, NV, by Cultural Association of Bengal
• National Centre of Performing Arts Dance Recital, Mumbai, India
• Aum Sad Gurubhyo Namaha, Cary Arts Center by Hum Sub and HSNC by Vedanta Society
• Azalea Festival, Wilmington, NC, by Brunswick CC
• International Day Festival by Brunswick Community College, Bolivia, NC
• International Festival by Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, NC
• South Eastern Center of Contemporary Arts Museum, Winston -Salem, NC
• Basant Bahar in Cary Arts Center, by Hum Sub, NC
• Erasing Borders Festival, Manhattan, NY, by Indo-American Arts Council
• An Evening of Manipuri Dance, Kolkata, India, by Arati Saha
• Rabindranath Tagore’s 150^th Birth Anniversary, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
• American Tagore Festivals, Rutgers, NJ, and Queens, NY
• Delhi International Arts Festival, New Delhi, India, by Pratibha Prahlad
• Indira Gandhi National Univ. Annual Event, New Delhi, India, by IGNOU
• Sankranthi-Pongal-Lohri Festival, Fayetteville, NC
• ISKCON New Goloka Dance Recital, Hillsborough, NC
• Unity in Diversity—International Night Event, Raleigh, NC, by the Wake County Democratic Party
• Regional Bengali Conference Nashville, TN, hosted by Bengali Association of Greater Nashville
• Heritage India Annual Dance Festival, Morrisville, NC, by Nuv Yug
• Dhaki-Utsav, Kolkata, India, by Swabhumi Cultural Organization
• Tanmoy Bose Special Conert, Kolkata, India, by Indian Army Command Hospital
• Violin Brothers Concert, Kolkata, India, by Calcutta Club
• Chris Rel Hip Hop Concert, Kolkata, India, by the United States Embassy
• Cultural Night in New Jersey, Rutgers, NJ, by New Jersey Indian Doctors Association
• North American Bengali Conference, Houston,TX, by Cultural Association of Bengal
• Raindrop Festival, Mumbai, India By Uma Dogra
• International Dance Festival, Vishaka Patam, Vizac, India
• Durham Arts Council
• Children’s Festival at HSNC (as Choreographer)
• International Festival Competition, Raleigh, NC (as Choreographer)
• Shri Krishna Parijatham, Basant Bahar, Cary, NC
• Diwali Program for Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Durham, NC (as Choreographer & Performer)
• India Fest, Raleigh, NC, by Nuv Yug (as Choreographer)
• Doctors’ Association of Bangladesh, NC (as Choreographer)
• Dragon Boat Festival, Cary, NC (as Choreographer)
• Classic Bollywood, Cary Arts Center, NC (as Director, Choreographer & Performer)

Her Gurus

Guru Bipin Singh, Smt Kalavati devi
http://manipurinartanalaya.org/manipurinartanalaya/Founders.html

Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri
http://www.darshanajhaveri.com

Smt Mallika Bhattacharya and Guru LaxmiNarayanji (To be uploaded)

Guru Parveen Gangani
http://parveengangani.com/shree-parveen-gangni

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About Hetal Nagaraj

• Indian Classical Background: Formal Trainings of introducing Indian dances started at the age of 4 from her mother Lt. Daksha M Joshi. Age 6, Formal Bharatnatyam Training started with Ms. Daksha. V. Joshi (Kalakshetra Style).

  • 2018 Master of Fine Arts(Bharatnatyam) from Tiruchirappalli Diocesan Educational Society (Tamil University) under the mentorship/guide of Dr. Marie Stella (Pondicherry & Chennai-India) and Master Instructors such as KM Jayakrishnan Ambadi from Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai(India).

    • This program is most vigorous program in India for Bharatnatyam for which even students of Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai(India) come to get their degrees because of extensive residency trainings and curriculum of this MFA Degree.

  • 2015: Advance Bharatnatyam knowledge from Guru.Smt.Rama Vaidyanathan(held by NrithyaDhwani-Dallas 2015).

  • 2015: Guru.Smt.Niraliben Thakore and Guru.Shri.Chandanbhai Thakore (Nrithyabharati “Bharatnatyam”-Ahmedabad-India 2015).

  • 2014 : Bollywood Workshop of 12 hours with Ms. Shampa Sonthalia,A Bollywood Choreographer visiting Dallas.

  • 2013: Fogana, assisting under strict supervision of Induben Mangrolia. 3rd prize adults/sr.folk/Garbha.

  • 97, 98: Professional Kathak Courses Lucknow and Jaipur Gharaanaa/Alternately.

• Indian Folk Dance Formal Trainings: Indian Folk Dances Trainings of over 15 years and she teaches each Indian Folk Dance as a DANCE FORM with several styles and variations. Some of popular Indian folk dances are: Bhangra, Gidda, Dandiya, Raas, Gagar, Sambalpuri, Kshetriya, Kallaripatt-Kalaripayattu, Kolattam, Padayani, Koli, India’s Tribal Dances, KummiAdi(Kummiadi), Bihu, Chirmi, Garba-Garbha, Dodhiyu, Lavani, Tippani, Garbi, Ghummar/Ghoomar/Ghoommar, Teratalli, Tera talli, Kalbelia, Garbi, Kumari and many more.

  • 1999, 2000, 2015: Exclusvie Indian Folk-Dance Trainings from Guru. Smt. Mallikaben Sarabhai & several other respected teachers of/at Darpana Academy of Performing Arts (Ahmedabad).

  • 1999: Navrang and Sri Sharada Kala Mandir for pure folk, fusion art forms and theater plays.

  • 1999: She started her journey as a freelance choreographer and have performed/competed or choreographed successfully some of the best Indian dance competitions in exclusive folk, bharatnatyam and Bollywood since then. She started her journey from Ahmedabad, Gujarat-India, Michigan, Kansas and now in Dallas-Fortworth Areas of Texas.

  • 1980s-90s: Guru. Smt. Minalben Oza and own mainstream schools(click here for her schools) (Gujarat Folk Guru-Gandhinagar Late 80s/90s).

  • 1983 to 1998: She was introduced to non-Gujarati folk dances in her own schools-Mt.Carmel, St.Xaviers(Gandhinagar) representing various states of India where school/visiting faculties trained students with in-depth knowledge of folk dances and variations associated with it.

• Performances/Competitions/Fundraisers (India, USA):

  • Group performances aired in Doordarshan Television Channels, received titles as in cash prizes/awards in Indian cultural competitions [1999-2003] held by non-profit organizations such as Ahmedabad-YMCA, Rajpath & Local Lions-Rotary Family Clubs located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat-India. Certificates/credentials from non-profit organizations such as Help-Age-India [1993], C.R.Y-India [2001], CRY America Inc. (2015, 2016).

  • A total of 20 awards have been awarded to her students for Folk, Fusion, Classical, Semi-Classical, Neo-Classical & Traditional Bollywood Categories

  • Most of the awards are won in pure Indian Folk Dances against Classical Dances of India, Bollywood (or Non-classical categories) in Indian Dance Competitions organized all over Gujarat(India until 2003) and all over United States of America(from 2004 to till date: Michigan, Kansas, and finally Dallas-Fortworth/DFW areas).

  • Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj takes it as her honor for the wins as the judges of these competitions had Masters In Fine arts from Indian Universities or had completed at-least 2 types of classical Dance Forms (Bharatnatyam+Kathak) with detailed knowledge of Indian Folk Dances as their main theory or practical paper in their degrees. These judges had further inspired Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj to take degree in master’s in fine arts along with family influences which she completed in 2018 with similar curriculum and specialties as in exams and practicals.

• Specializations:

  • Bharatnatyam(Kalakshetra), Modern Folk-Fusions, Pure Folk Dances of India, Classical Fusions, Lyrical, BollyHop/BollyJazz/Bollywood-Folk/Traditional/Modern/Fusion, Semi-Classical, Neo-Classical-Modern(India)Categories and Indian Contemporary Styles (From Indian Classical & Indian Folk Dances ONLY), Bolly-HipHop/Bollyhop.

  • Hetal has showcased famous dances (some with trainings or some with exclusive copyright permits) of Guru.Smt.Minalben Oza, Guru.Smt.Mallikaben Sarabhai & Smt.Induben Mangrola’s conceptual art forms as a tribute in various dances of her own.

• Non-Indian & Other Dance Trainings 2011 to 2015 :

  • Couple Dance Instructors’ Training Lessons for 6 months (Salsa, Mambo, Ballroom-learned all separately-techniques ONLY. Beginners to Intermediate, Intermediate) from Tony Gavinito (Former Arthur Murray Instructor, Plano-Texas, USA). Venue : Sundanga Dance Center, Carrolton.

  • Hiphop/Urban, Jazz, Creative Movements – Dance Council, Coppell Dance Centre – Beginners to Intermediate, Intermediate.

  • 2014 : Bollywood Workshop : Creating Choreography & 2 Master Dances – Advance : Shampa Sonthalia

  • 2015 : Zumba Certifications. Location : Lewisville, Texas.

• Family Background: Knowledge of performing arts and theatre is being passed through generations in her family and Mrs.Nagaraj is the 4th generation to receive it as a gift along with trainings. Grandfather was classical singer and mother was a dance-drama artist with bachelor’s in arts from Mumbai University.

  • Most or all her family members have at-least one classical/indian folk or non-classical background either in instruments, singing or dancing. It is just a family thing & Hetal being the first one to register this talent as company.

  • She is settled with family of 2 beautiful kids and loving husband. She performs for not only Grace & Grooves | Grace Creations but also competed with national level dance team (Fogana 2013) and does several other non profit events : https://www.facebook.com/hetalnagaraj/

Her passion is to provide not only quality dance education but also teach her students to respect culture and its values. Her students take home in-depth knowledge and love for dance/performing arts as lifelong lessons with awards from well-respected competitions. She performs regularly as lead dancer in all shows of Grace And Grooves. (www.graceandgrooves.com).

Her exclusive dance productions : https://wp.me/p7EbkV-1zy

• Call NOW : 972 979 2559 to set an appointment with her.

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