Duet Pairs of Hetal Nagaraj | Grace And Grooves
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.
- Akhil-Shravya – 2017 to 2020 : wip
- Sindhu-Hetal – 2015 to current : wip
- Aahana-Samarth – 2019 onwards : Creative Concepts, Semi-Classical, Contemporary-Broadway, Classical Fusions & Pure – Kalaripayattu.
- Anula-Hetal – 2022 to onwards : wip
- Ashna-Nirja – 2015 to current : wip
- Setty Siblings – 2009 to current : wip
- Vijay-Jinal- 2021 onwards : wip
- and several others in line as we will find those.
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).
Other crew members that Hetal Nagaraj has danced with are usually the “out of company collaborations” listed here.
Hetal is still friends with all of them.
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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