You have to work for it (for free to learn it and gain experience so that u can get paid after completion of that trainings)
or you pay for it from day 1 to take those trainings. We run those programs too.
All our Texas All Star Talents students or recruits work for it to earn amazing skills/techniques and all that knowledge/awareness.
why will I give anybody any power or authority to lead to just about anything (without their success ratio of anything in their past).
what are you capable of (from your history or background) that is worth making you eligible for any lead position
or that I will give that opportunity.
so if you cannot volunteer to learn all this then pay for it and learn it just like several students do.
Our Reachh Mediaa Since 2013 programs are perfect for those who pay and learn, straight background required.
Our Texas All Star Talents programs are great for gifted individuals or those w/lack of training or those with intro trainings only or those who have not danced in long time or have not done their trainings from techniques. Choreography schools have to be the part of this program because of lack of techniques.
I too paid for all my trainings.
Not a single class or activity in any of the www.hetaln.com was ever free! I worked for it so I have today Texas All Star Talents programs so that others can work for it to earn it.
Or I paid for it and so today I run those programs under me.
I did my internships after being a fresh grad and so I run those programs under me and those are entirely different. And I earned it with credits, respect and transparency with full traceability on paper with all sucessful projects.
So, I own everything I do and if you are under me, I will make sure you own everything you do. I will not let others claim your work and viz a versa. It is your right to own all you do. My own life before i entered US markets trained me to own.
New to you ?
At this point, all our Texas All Star Talents are for in-house students and Elites only.
We are not offering it anymore to outsiders because of horrible experiences in 2022 due to criminal fraud.
This is 100% true. I used to teach next door and so I know from the beat-sound of nattavangam and yes, it is wrong nattavangam. Infact, I personally know a few people in my family as well that are in bharatanatyam but could not take my class(b’coz i was far off or timing was issue and are also victim of this fraud from alpana jacob). That family has requested a full refund from Ms. alpana jacob as well. I personally have few students from this individual ms.jacob that have gone through similar trauma so to say.
Imagine taking trainings for 10 yrs of your life, blindly believing in somebody and literally learning useless/creative bharatanatyam without proper adavus or jathi or names of any of it. The dances were not qualified for any awards either as per this parent upon submissions for bharatanatyam categories with a strict feedback that creativity in adavus are required or as is adavus is required/either. Their personal growth was harmed because of fraud dances. Internally it is harmful.
Ms. shweta shah stopped by at my classes too off-late (after several times of re-scheduling her timings with me) and she wants to do production dances and also complete her training. Since we had to downsize due to several catastrophic damages and criminal fraud in my company, we had to ask Ms.Shweta to wait until we have her levels. So, currently as per the conversation that I had with Ms. Shweta, she is taking online classes with her own teacher in chennai and will join us for production.
Ms Shweta is taking mentorship classes(online and in-person if in city, probably once in 1-2months ) with me and often travels. As you know, I take limited batches because of my association in other fields(www.hetaln.com) and so if the several batches clear their graduations (one by one every other year) then we have to wait until our other batches reach a level for certain individuals. We cannot speed up the existing batch’s involvement just for the sake of Anantha Classical Dance & Theater Production Series or compromise on their learning!
It is also correct that several of my own staff people(who re-united with me not knowing that i am in DFW area) have tried to take ms. alpana’s drop in class until they found me and they all had similar feedbacks about dances at aarti school of dance or with ms.alpana herself. Most of these dancers that i am talking about are refreshing students which means they have done quite some level of bharatanatyam and know it well when it is not right! First they thought that probably they missed something and this post on facebook triggered the topic; they all were shocked that they were right about Ms. alpana and aarti school of dance. this was during this post. It is true! This post is driven by their personal experiences and thus the talks and it is true.
Some other lady from aarti school of dance named Rakshita had applied to my dance school too and we had refused her because we had freezed all our recruits and refreshers programs due to recent criminal fraud in my company and her clear message was that she wants to complete her Bharatanatyam. We had requested details such as biodata and clips and those clearly mention that Ms. Rakshita(who is now instructor at aarti school of dance) have not completed her trainings. This communication was in Dec/and early this year-2023 as hetal reconnected with all admin messages to everybody and prior to this in 2019 via text/bharatanatyam training to be completed and bharatanatyam newbie class. This is an indication that this company hires untrained artists at the cost of years and years of fees of parents for something as simple as dance that does not have any value. This isn’t the first time that this pattern has occurred. This creates a very negative impact on student’s life and mindset.
Ms. Shweta has visited 2 other dance schools in irving as well. this i am told about from one of the admin that had their initial talk with Ms. shweta on fb. I do not know if Shweta will join us or not. It is irrelevant for me if shweta will join me or not. Shweta is not my Elite and neither she is my student. Once in bluemoon she takes those mentorship classes per hour under my Reachh Mediaa program and that is it.Ms. Shweta is not my anything as a matter of fact. Our reachh mediaa program offers mentorship classes by hourly and monthly or by packages (with and without dance). It depends on utilization.
I have several people like Ms. Shweta who buy my ad-hoc mentorship classes once a while for consult and they all pay for hourly consult with invoices and such company protocols. Nonetheless, I am very busy with my life at hetaln.com.
My people will never insult anybody and they hold much more value in respect in each word and for everybody. They are not ordinary people. They are extremely successful in all walks of life with families and they work for me only because love of doing right is reason and personal growth in performing arts and other expertise under me. They speak well because of their upbringing and their workplace environments. they speak truth too and if something makes them curious or wonderous then that’s what they will precisely talk about and with all due respect! And that is it. I cannot stop them from doing so, it is freedom to be themselves and speak their mind without harming company’s integrity. Their contribution to my company is exceptional and they DON’T EVER lie. Motive is simple, i am the maker of their first generation!
My teams take my loads when required and thus are my Elites too. Thus, status of Pre.Elite or Elite is not assigned to just anybody. It is a very responsible and accountable level that is in position to lead and be accountable for in my absence. It is for those who take responsibility of their actions and follow through protocols of performing arts as well as laws as applicable in speciality. These individuals are trained under me to replace me and talk on behalf of me and being respectful is extremely required. My Elites have proof of everything that they speak about. They don’t have any reason to lie. If they have been there, they have been there and they have a proof of it. Period! They are one of those people who will work hard and smart too. We train them to be like me or better than me!
It is what it is. If they have personal experience, they will speak of it and they have proof of it of their classes or attendance/either. It is irrelevant to me about their personal experience with anybody(this specifically if it was prior to me).
At this point and at this moment until futher notice, I do not wish to collab with anybody that is lower than my achievements or cadre (or lead or buy any companies) due to recent incidents in my company such as criminal fraud and other catastrophic financial damages that has made my life extremely busy.
So yes, i am very busy trying to clear the backlog that has affected 22 artist under me, existing company activities worth 1000s of $$ and my own personal work has been compromised to extremely high levels.
Precisely, I am being absolutely upfront about this, I don’t get anything from such collab.
How is that dance school so old has not achieved anything and their artists are way below average or are often prepared by other dance teachers (and are often transfers from other out of state students of other teachers and their dance level goes down in dance because of arti school of dance’s dance activities while their own scratch students are horrible in performances). All the dances of those individuals from aarti school of dance/alpana were rejected right off with lack of adavus and jathis. This after 10years of classes and without missing a single class.
I am paid artist from 1993-94 from the age of 13 and several of my own artist (that are exclusively trained under me from scratch) are at such an achievement level that they are way ahead of any of company members of aarti school of dance. From age of 19, i am Bharatanatyam and Indian Folk dancer as well as educator/director with full set of graduates under my own teachers. So certain companies don’t bring anything valueable to me.
Aarti school of dance’s one week (classes) is my one hour of commercial gig (that’s just me without any of my elites) and in Bharatanatyam itself and I dance margam, pure bharatanatyam in multiple styles because of my specialities level by level and style by style. We also do other gigs such as creative Bharatanatyam, fusions and many such creative dance pieces. Most of which have won awards that benefit students as well.
I feel it as my social need/responsibility to clear any misunderstandings or any issues that might come to my notice, and this applicable only if, my people have participated in certain chats (because of their personal experiences) prior to joining me or prior to “knowing” that I am in DFW. This waives me off from any legal obligation from any of this company members. It is true!
my company however has nothing to do with either alpana or aarti school of dance. There are several locations that we have shared next door for years together from carrollton, alpha midway and west frisco. My locations remain constant and we still offer classes at all these locations for pretty much all our services(till date) and yes it is true, their locations change drastically with huge travel time distances! I wonder how this company is able to change their locations so often! New to me.
There were times (in prior years) when alpana had ordered wholesale order (wholesale order – min order of 50 costumes or min billing 2500$+shipping custom design by genre and category) from my wholesale costume brand and there were times when I needed a costume in emergency (as my shipment did not arrive on time and i had commercial gig) and so i rented as well from alpana too. And yes, things do happen in company’s timelines and I will clear it if it pertains to me or my people or my company so that my elites are not misjudged or their work is not credited to somebody else as they all work hard to contribute to my company and growth.
I personally don’t have any beef with anybody. period. It is not my responsibility anything more than this.
Our modus operandi is about personal growth(this includes earning as well in every area of expertise) of artist and students and to make their performing valuable to the right audiences and thus my company/artists themselves have achieved so much that I just don’t care about low and small goals or mindsets.
Your one life goal is just one of my field — Hetal Nagaraj.
The post copies are as below and this is the only incident that has come to my notice and all of above suffices :
We don’t have (or probably will never have) Junior Elites as our junior age group level is upto 8 years(3.5 to 8yrs). And batches below 5 yrs were/are rare or most of them are our own students younger siblings classes.
Hetal Nagaraj Dance specializes in youth education predominently and that means 8+, youth, pre.teens, teens, active adults. However, Hetal Nagaraj Dance has worked with several private montessories, early education schools for wellness & performing arts recreation programs where it was required to monitor a normal day for the case to rule the behavior patterns(some work w/education lawyers).
But other than that, we have never had anything like Junior Elites!
Only standard levels Pre.Competition, Competition/Performing Levels, Pre.Elites, Elites by genre/category/or by city-levels/nationals or international. Level of degree depends on skills that are mastered to tally with universities or colleges if student chooses to opt for universities with performing arts or as one of the subjects. If a student has not taken any classes or has not mastered 9-12 weeks skill level benchmarks then we cannot provide this level or any such confirmation without legitimacy. We are training school. We cannot do so. Since we do not have substantial number of kids in this age group or we were limited to taking these age groups, obviously we don’t have Junior Elites.
We do have several students that are below 8 years and have won competitions but they are/were not Elites! Youngest Elite was Nirja Setty just 2 months before 8th bday for a national program-folk, bharatanatyam and drama with a full routine of bollywood and yet, Nirja Setty was not provided the title of “Elite” at that time.
Elite : This level is pretty much next to flawless execution of any genre or category or by request without any excuses and this includes having full knowledge of subject matter/or that dance in particular, differenciate between concept/theme/dance genre/category/styles/skills understanding/requirements of technique showcase if that is asked and so onn and thus are priced for commercial artists. Some of our artists are under contracts from very young age due to their own exposure/experience in the field that started earlier at age of 8 to 10months. It was because of their “in-born ability to handle all that stress“.
These artists have parents that fully aware of legal protocols to follow through as well and family’s overall ability to handle all that stress of these activities from younger age is phenominal! Some are so particular that these families follow through a schedule which includes balance of all the activities with several kids/playdates and own family get togethers with a well-knit support system of their own. Because it is about money, time, value of these opportunities and with that goes in mental stress/mental health! These families balance it really well and it fits their own lifestyle and so we welcome these “full blown contract artists that started very early in life” and are willing to groom in other areas of performing arts fields. Thus, their recruitment to our programs was right off the bat. We would rather be cautious and slow for minors than to allow just anybody in this level. We have several of these and one such have their site too. www.thesettys.com, and several others are one of these example!
Thus, we rarely have kids below 5 yrs. And then we have probably 1-2 batch that are from 3.5/4.5yrs only b’coz of their older siblings or these kids joined together as a large group to qualify for group packages and so we conducted their classes! Min 10 required to start a batch of this age and at this moment, Hetal Nagaraj Dance hands are full with several backlogs and so we don’t have instructor in this age group at any location. This is exactly why most of our commercial projects (by contracts) usually start from age of 13 under leadership of Hetal Nagaraj (due to stress involved in these areas and demographics/lifestlye of the candidate or basic support system to be self-reliant).
We have freezed all our hiring at this point and also reduced several batches due to recent delays in several projects, backlogs and criminal fraud!
We don’t have Junior Elites Or Junior Pre.Elites and we will never have those atleast until futher notice because of delays/damages by recent criminal frau/theft and so several projects are at stake.
All In-house Pre.Elites or Elites students that are below 13 years of age – will achieve Pre.Elites or Elites Only IF :
these in-house students attend regularly all the number of classes required by skill sets.
rehearsals and practicesas required.
technique classes as required with full recognisition and creative classes
participations, auditions, submissions by techniques and in multiple genres.
performances & company productions that these students are trained to do so by each class.
It is required to perform at that level to leverage the benefits of being a Pre.Elite/Elite.
Example of Pre.Elites/Elites below age 13 years : Audrey, Aayan, The Settys, and many more.
Fun facts : Hetal Nagaraj has never worked for anybody in this performing arts field throughout or was direct under contract of artist managment company that was run by Jinal Shah and her Hyderabad partners. Although for several of temple/spiritual/non profit/religious groups and org, Hetal Nagaraj has offered programs and are very well listed! www.hetaln.com -> spiritual.
Talk about Chemistry(as these students are brought up together or can talk through choreo from previous classes and are readily available due to time schedules of practices)
+ their Trainings either with hetalnagaraj or with their previous teachers make it easy to practice or perform or get advance trainings together and thus the results too.
2013 – Duet series were commenced in 2013 in various genres to meet the requirements of these programs where solo(s), duet(s) in small stages(due to budget of org) were successfully performed on stage, by request with themes and concept exclusively under Hetal Nagaraj.
These performances were within the genre and without genre. Without foresaking fundamentals of dance form or genre. This was also requested by categories which several of our students delivered successfully along with several fusion performances for modern audiences.
All of these activities with Awards/Nominations and successful delivery of projects without age limits or gender! Everything counts. To sync in with each other for the results.
Some elites may have probably performed together once or max twice for prob 1 min or so and may not make it to this list as “they have not consistently made a team of duet out of themselves or performances were not for submission or gigs”.
By Genre, By Category, By Dance Form or By Style, By Theme, By Concept.
Some of our famously known duet series are winners in several programs, competitions, commercial, shoots, submissions, fundraising, hired projects or self-sponsored gigs, by genre and by category and several of these with awards as well as nominations, depending on programs and organizers. These all activities were successfully delivered by the following dancers exclusively under hetalnagaraj with hetalnagaraj herself in several duets:
Nirja-Srinija 2010 to 2016 : Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood, Tollywood, Bollyhop and Semi Classical Fusions.
Deepthi-Sindhu 2014 to current : Bollywood, Tollywood, Bollyhop, Semi-Classical and Classical Fusions.
Hetal-Deepthi / in group as pairs. 2015 to 2021 : Semi-Classical, Classical Fusions, Pure Bharatanatyam, Creative Concepts, Indian Folk Dances,wip
Srinija-Siri – 2010 to 2014 : Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood, Tollywood, and Semi Classical Fusions.
Nirja-Siri / in group as pairs. 2013 to 2016 : Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood, Tollywood, & Semi Classical Fusions.
Samarth-Akhil – 2015 to 2018 : Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood, Tollywood, Bollyhop, Hiphop and Theater/Drama
Samarth-Megan – 2014 to 2017 : Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood, Tollywood, Couples -Salsa Fusion w/Indian Dances.
Samarth-Tejaswini 2017-2018 to 2021-2022 : Bharatanatyam & Kuchipudi : Creative Concepts, Semi-Classical, Classical Fusions, Pure Bharatanatyam. Rabindra Nruthya Series.
Very soon the performances will be linked as well because so many of these!
You can alternatively see those performances in several promos and all our performances too taking the load of main dancer or group lead by themselves! While looking at these performances, some may think of margins. For private classes(other than regular classes once a week) and above certain levels of performing arts, it is not about margins :). These are scheduled and arranged at different pricing for a specific program and to elevate dancers’ levels for submisions and some are gigs and some are paid for.
At certain advance levels, It is about money – delivery. Be it projects with gigs w/payouts or as fundraisers. These activities automatically raise the margins because of dances performed in it. It is what it is. Straight background often makes it easier.
And ofcourse there are groups that perform for basic culture/community shows as well and we welcome those as well.
Gallery coming soon!
Fun Facts : Hetal Nagaraj has danced/shoot/shot/on stage performed with only 6 men till date as their partner/pair throughout the year. Names of these individuals are :
Kunal+Gaurav Swap as group pairs (Gandhinagar-Koli marathi folk annual show, Mt Carmel/St. Xaviers).
Viral (Gandhinagar-goa couple dance valentine day school spring / annual program, Mt Carmel/St. Xaviers).
Purvesh (Ahmedabad-Garba Folk Competition at YMCA), Hetal found him in 2022 via social media search.
Nigel (shots/stills for matching sports wear – NIKE submission, Ahmedabad).
Manodeep (Ahmedabad) for Mock Ad submissions (to speak abt insurance for advertising crew for training scripts terminology) for Old Mutual & Kotak Mahindra’s (merger) product lines for billboards & media.
Nagaraj for dance and shoots (her own huby from 2000 mostly in parties/corporate parties/friends/family, couple dances formal balls or salsa nights + 2 shoots for a couple shoot-submission).
To clarify, Hetal Nagaraj does not have any patrick /movie type/Kite/or infact any such scenario anywhere. Straight life with all trainings completed in full and with own school/college/teachers groups or as their host for trainings in submissions for media & partnering brands or a replacement dancer because of emergencies or last min dropouts (if present in city and by speciality).
Hetal was 20 yrs old when nagaraj entered her life and so this happened : www.hetaln.com. And then after a very long time once done with family kids (b’coz consistency is required to do regular classes), this happened independently and exclusively. www.graceandgrooves.com.
Part time from 1999(weekends only and independent projects/commercial gigs/workshops/private groups) & full time from 2019!
We were hoping that by 2023 – Sept 31st or Oct 10th max, all the uploads will be done but due to limited upload of response time on facebook, we had to limit 1-2 uploads per day. Today is Oct 24, 2023 and we are still uploading all our performing arts activities (these are other than regular once a week dance lessons). Just today, a new phone backup file was discovered from zip files (other than the previously sorted ones that are yet to be uploaded) and the new ones are still to be sorted.
These are the activities that we do under Hetal Nagaraj other than regular classes (once a week) and because of exclusive own participation and leadership with more than 98% of involvements/engagemnts, these are listed on Hetal’s dance page -> photos -> albums and will be listed on her personal website too : https://www.facebook.com/hetalnagarajdance/photos_albums
Hope you all enjoy the uploads.
Looks like these will continue for a while along with weekly updates of the company such as Pre.Elites Saturdays, Elites-Sundays and Artist of the Week-Wednesdays/Thursdays. Company contributions as crew will be uploaded as well and independent albums of independent projects with full leadership of choreographers are also being uploaded in related albums with technique list from Hetal Nagaraj for students.
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some by texas registered educational colleges/universities/entertainment/groups
some by private groups with goals in mind.
why so many workshop or hourly programs ? because sometimes people approach with their own groups.
So a certain time is allocated just for them. simple as that!
Since we are skill based technique focused dance training center, all are welcomed as long as we follow the schedule. These workshops can be conducted at our locations or at your own locations.
Some on-going class-batches coincide to our existing syllabus and request from these groups. while some may not! If they do coincide to our existing syllabus then students do take those classes that are on-going in the dance curriculam. It is very much like credit system. Sometimes it is viz a versa if some students have to take certain skills then if groups are okay then these students join them for few lessons or until the skill is mastered. It depends.
We are a dance school and a training center with more than 50 specialities just under me/hetalnagaraj. My/our focus is not on culture shows and yet we have results as we follow benchmark every 9 to 12 weeks of proper learning of each technique by genre. We do have some batches that might get ready for culture shows as well and we always encourage but we don’t push for kids to perform. My stage shows are known for providing a perfect platform as compared to culture groups for several aspects as compared to several dance teachers because of the way we do it, with certain goals in mind.
This is due to my own specialities with full transparency and traceability unlike several teachers who do it only because they did not have other things to do or something like that. Some like me start their journey directly being introduced to performing arts with contracts/MOU and so we follow the similar path.
It is safe for everybody to abide by contracts/MOU. This is one of the reason i don’t collaborate with anybody OR I don’t claim to work with anybody without paperwork or legit contract. I don’t allow to work for me without MOU. If you can’t sign the paper that clarifies your precise engagements with me then we can’t have you. Period!
This has been my mojo from the time i entered this field in 1993-1994 as this is exactly how i was introduced to this field. History.
I never claim to work with anybody without any paperwork/invoice or any letter of invite/sponsorships/and so onn. If you don’t have a way to show it then it did not happen. If you have to hide it from somebody or public then it is not worth showing or is not legit which is sort of questionable. Life should be open as a clean book. Good or bad. It is what it is. You could go LIVE with some creative dance or skill as well and it could be not be the genre or category! period.
Because I have everything that I need to show as is and so I show it openly, my own work + my teachers or peers work too that i dance/perform on and my team’s work too : https://www.facebook.com/hetalnagarajdance/photos_albums
My name was openly publicize too during all my job/work assingments and so we too publicize our staff list openly. It is in the best interest of everybody as everybody in this team under me works hard through trainings or through their own achievements. By mistake, i don’t want anybody to take other Elite’s work or any staff work too. It is what it is.
We are training center with multiple specialities and several commercial activities and so we cannot afford to have anybody take advantage of anything or specifically, anybody!
Something about me and Hhow I balance my life – How i balance my life is none of anybody’s business and that includes how i run my projects under hetaln.com. some of my staff works in 2nd and 3rd generations and that tells anybody how I handle it. My family doesn’t eat outside food for more than 2-3 days and i have my own intact-social circle without showcasing it and you will see my pictures everywhere because that too is open. My family is happy with the way we live, i am role model of being one of the most influential person in my family and it is always, go ask hetal aunty she knows it better! go figure out why. my younger generations take my advices because of my successes, my inlaws are happy with me, my husband is happiest guy on earth and so am i. i am spoiled with so much love that you can only dream of being loved so much.
Why would people in my family/friends love me so much. They don’t do it to show anybody. Who is anybody to question how I should balance at any given point of time. Who are you to me that I will change anything for you in my personal life! Your break is not my break. Your capacity is not my capacity. Some people like me are used to living a high activity/capacity life because of life goals and we are trained like that.Having worked with 2-3 generations, we know what other people’s capacity is. We don’t starve, we don’t over work, we work exactly what we can, we don’t exhaust, we don’t shout/yell, we say no means no, we say yes means yes, we don’t compromise on our living for anything then who is anybody to judge anything i do.
dare to live this high quality life with such a wonderful habits in life that builds the life of people? Here’s one of my bucket list. Just one of them. Go figure how I live.
Staff list is conviniently available at all times, good or bad, it is right there, as is. It is what it is. : https://wp.me/p7EbkV-1Es
You do what’s in your capacity and that includes multiple specialities if you can do as I do with full transparency and traceability. if you love dance so much, why don’t do it beautifully as I do and why there is no value as there is value of mine ? is that how you treat something that you love so much! Exactly a reason why i don’t collab just like that.
My each class has that value and result and it has value for $$. 3500 students instructed till date, more than 150 graduates in DFW itself.
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