Founder-led performing arts training center in Texas with 25+ years of documented student outcomes across multi-genre cultural, recreational, and competitive programs spanning the USA, India, and Nepal.
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Movie, Masti(Fun in Hindi Language), and Magic of Indian aka Desi Cinema is unbeatable It got us too!
Recital 2018 – A Fusion Life of American Born Cultured Indian/Desi (ABCD)
Celebrating the Golden Era of Indian Cinema Through Dance
One of the distinctive creative elements of Recital 2018 – A Fusion Life of American-Born Cultured Indian/Desi (ABCD) was a special tribute to the Golden Era of Indian Cinema, celebrating the timeless music, storytelling, and choreography that influenced generations across India and beyond.
All of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj’s productions or recitals either have inspirations of her own childhood training years or story in the production itself.
Drama, Acting and Theater is heavily enforced in all the productions in various role play. Students commute to other locations for rehearsals just for these role play and acting scenes.
The production explored the evolution of Indian cinema and dance traditions across multiple decades:
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
And latest hits of 2017, 2018.
This era represented a remarkable period of cinematic creativity, where music, poetry, classical influences, folk traditions, and innovative choreography came together to create unforgettable cultural experiences.
A huge shift of modernization from traditional performing arts was showcased in every performance through year round trainings.
The showcase highlighted the diversity of Indian cinema across various languages, recognizing that India’s film heritage extends far beyond a single industry. Through different regional languages, musical styles, and storytelling traditions, Indian cinema has continuously reflected the country’s vast cultural landscape.
The performances traveled through a creative journey that included, through strict curriculam :
Semi-Classical Mujra-inspired presentations reflecting elegance, expression, and classical aesthetics
Traditional and regional Indian Folk Dance influences
Folk to Bollywood, whole era of Modernization influences were showcased on stage.
Cinematic dance interpretations inspired by India’s rich movie heritage
Bharatanatyam dances included rich literature performances evergreen to several cultures — other than margam performances were beautifully performed by Pre.Elites Levels of Students.
Bharatanatyam trends were also showcased through flairs of classical trainings by Elites of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.
Contemporary and Desi Hip-Hop fusion, representing the artistic identity of younger generations growing up in a global environment
Last but not the least, Remix versions of various folk, classical and hiphop styles were showcased on 1 stage as a scene itself with a LIVE shoot for some future assignments.
The segment demonstrated how Indian dance has continuously evolved—from classical expressions and traditional folk movements to modern urban influences—while maintaining its cultural roots.
The creative vision, concept development, choreography, and overall direction of this production were led by Hetal Nagaraj, who designed the presentation to showcase the connection between generations, cultures, and artistic styles.
By combining historical cinematic influences with contemporary movement vocabulary, the performance celebrated how Indian performing arts continue to transform while preserving the emotions, stories, and traditions that define them.
This artistic journey represented the essence of ABCD – American-Born Cultured Indian/Desi: a generation that honors its heritage, understands its foundations, and confidently creates new expressions of culture for the future.
Story Line of 2018 Recital –
Recital 2018 had a story on the stage itself through performances –
Story was about a young Indian Boy who migrated to USA and gets married in USA embracing the cross culture environments.
The Entire production had a marvelous end with SRK Danceathon, annual students as young as 4 years to age 40 performed non stop.
The whole production is shown as a dream to young gentleman dreaming about USA and US girls until the fairy awakes him to reality. At the end, he takes away the desi-bride with Veer Zaara Style scene!
Role Play in the show – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja, Ranveer, Ashna, Samarth.
The Legacy of Recital 2018
Recital 2018 – A Fusion Life of American-Born Cultured Indian/Desi (ABCD) was more than a dance showcase. It was a reflection of identity, cultural preservation, artistic education, and the evolving journey of Indian-origin youth growing up in America.
Through classical traditions, folk heritage, Bollywood storytelling, contemporary fusion, and community collaboration, Grace And Grooves demonstrated that culture is not something preserved only in the past—it is something continuously created by every generation.
Several students received their yearly achievement awards, nominations to various competitions and publications as well as Student of the year.
The production celebrated a simple belief:
When strong foundations meet creativity, heritage does not disappear—it evolves, expands, and shines on new stages.
Venue – Plano Courtyard Theater, Plano, Texas.
Students of Las Colinas, Plano 121-Mcdermott-Independence, Carrollton, and Stonebrair Mall Frisco Locations performed in this program. Exclusive to Hetal Joshi Nagaraj. Pre.Elites and Elites performed as well as part of their performances and curriculam assignments.
PR activities were planned before the show thus, partly Ticketted.
Audiences 300+ x 2 Seperate Audiences.
1st Half – Young Kids 1.5 hours.
Texas All Star Showcase – Ticketted 1 hour.
2nd Half – Elites, Teens and Up – Heavily Ticketted. 2.5 hours.
Main Sponsor of Entire Program – Former Owner of Nruthyakala Indian Folk Dance Academy – South Irving, Keller, Euless and Fortworth Areas., followed by permanent merger to Grace and Grooves.
Special Thanks :
Mishu Shastri-Dance, Ritu Kharbanda-Dance for their participation in Recital 2018, A Fusion Life of ABCD as guest performer with her own team/kids, 1 dance and 1 role play in danceathon.
All Star International Platforms – Not to confuse with Texas All Star Talents.
Arjun Iyer for Instruments – All Star International Platforms – Reachh Mediaa Invited Artist.
Kedar Golvelkar For Music on Guitar (Ankhon Mein Teri) – All Star International Platforms.
Pre-recorded Guitar on Aum Shanti Aum-tune and Ankhon Mein Teri.
Raghavendra and Pavitra Bhat as Veer Zaraa Special Appearance – One of Ms. Hetal’s former couple package.
Refreshments Vendor – Chennai Cafe – Richardson-Frisco.
Picture Gallery
At Grace And Grooves, each recital and production represents more than a public performance—it serves as an important milestone in a student’s artistic journey.
Students demonstrate the knowledge, technique, discipline, and performance skills they have acquired throughout the year, progressing toward higher levels of learning and responsibility. In many ways, every recital functions as a practical graduation, where students advance not only in technical ability but also in confidence, stage presence, teamwork, leadership, and artistic maturity.
As students grow, so do our faculty. This continuous cycle of learning, mentorship, performance, and leadership development is fundamental to the Grace And Grooves philosophy, ensuring that every production contributes to the long-term growth of both artists and educators.
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2023 – 2024 – Jinal Shah– 21+ Student of the Year – USA, UK. Endorsed.
2022 – 2023 – Name To be received from teams. Records under review.
2021 – 2022 – Aayan Ale – currently under endorsement. Student graduated in the same year of 2022 during the stalled systems mess in g2.
2020 – 2021 : Aahana :
Aahana is a student of Hetal Nagaraj Dance, Hetal Nagaraj from 2012 (she was almost 5 years old) for half dozen Indian Folk dances(100+ hours) & Bollywood(250+hr) & has taken several courses with Grace And Grooves Group of Dance Companies (350 +) hours with us in general. Aahana is a vivacious 11 year old from Frisco Texas. She’s a 6th grader in Frisco, Texas, USA. She is currently taking advance training of Kalaripayattu & Contemporary (surpassed 30+ hr NEW each) with Ms.Hetal(in-person) & Manoj Sir(online). She has won several city & state level non-voting competitions under Hetal Nagaraj nominating her for several state level participations and competitions. ALL of which were non-voting. Her other dance accomplishments include, city and state level bollywood, indian folk and semi-classical winning streaks with Hetal Nagaraj as part of company performances and submissions. Nominated several times for state level programs as well to come and perform but due to exam times, she could not go.
Aahana’s other accomplishments include several sports, educational, arts/drawing awards by grade and she won a honorary mention for her reflections art work at Ani Hols elementary school. Current Student at School of rock training in Vocals ( rock music ) Age 6 to 10. Her Facebook page was established in 2020 under the leadership & training of Hetal Nagaraj with Reachh Mediaa Reachh Since 2013.
Under Hetal Nagaraj, she also earned her first international award from Mumbai, India. See here.
She receives 300$ worth of prizes from our friends and participating companies. Yet another example set here!
2019-2020 : Sindhu Jampala :
Sindhu Jampala comes with package, 2019-2020! Congratulations!!!
Ms. Sindhu started her trainings in August 2014 for recreational Bollywood classes in Irving, Texas under Hetal Nagaraj when she was mother of 1. Later, she was trained with Ms. Deepthi & Hetal together.
She started her journey with her full time IT job, at times on-call and all the other family commitments. Performing and then graduating after being “a mother of 2” NOW. She has participated in lot of our recitals, dance productions and has been part of our growing family! From Sarvaa 2019, she has been contributing towards company shows by being choreographer for her own kids team with full responsibility from start to finish under the leadership of Hetal Nagaraj.
Lot of her dances were selected for form/Bharatanatyam/folk category even when submitted in open category only because we had used Bollywood song but organizers moved us!! While others were pure bollyhop and fun dances that she continues to do today with her teams. With their Irving & Carrollton teams, they made it to several local non-voting competitions for Bollywood categories & a few reality dance competitions across cities for bollywood traditional to bollyhop.
She receives gift hampers and services worth of 250$ from our friends and participating companies. Sindhu has set an example for lot of our full time working young mommies with extended families that there will be a year that’s going to be mine from start to finish :). She finally took it in 2019-2020 with family. #respect.
2018-2019 : Aanya Kocchar :
Ms. Aanya Kocchar joined Grace And Grooves as an exclusive Bharatnatyam Student in 2015 when we started teaching structured Bharatnatyam Program at Lewisville, Texas under the guru-shishya parampara with Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj exclusively.
When it comes to balancing life with education, performing arts and all the other activities that kids have to take up today just to achieve normal expectancy as per school curriculum, it has never been easy!
As per our Student of the year criteria, she has been an excellent role model to all our younger Bharatanatyam dancers who will look upon her an example going forward. Never Give Up because learning an art-form is never easy and there are NO SHORT-CUTS.
Aanya has performed with Grace And Grooves in several in-house dance productions with her exclusive Bharatnatyam Dances without forsaking fundamentals of her own art-form Bharatanatyam for all our recitals, community events as well as exclusively Hetal Nagaraj’s dance productions.
Her notable dances are Bharatnatyam Nruthyam-Gujarati Sahitya Dance Duet (Literature) and Hetal Nagaraj’s Master Degree university level work of exclusive Bharatnatyam-Pushpanjali, and Allaripu(main margam items). She continues to learn her next level in Bharatnatyam at Lewisville, Texas with Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj and is now a 5th Grader. We are so proud of you!
Nominated twice for International Gujarati Culture Awards as well as community awards and earned her place in gifted folk programs at Nruthyakala Folk Dance Academy.
She receives $200 worth of services from our partners and friend-businesses to excel in her interest in the journey of Bharatanatyam. One Step At A Time, Nice And Easy. Updated : Jan 11, 2019.
Aanya was student from March 2015 to November 1, 2019.
During Jatiswaram Level from Mid-August 2019 onwards, she started coming once a month only which was slowing down entire batch. Student was unable to attend minimum 4 classes a month/do any other make-up classes/take any other private classes to catch up to her class-mates or atleast take other parallel classes;all of which was given well-ahead of time as per convinience of all parents. Parents were contacted regularly every month about the absences via emails/phones-sms and calls. Parents were regularly requested to move to slower pace class or lower level class (just to keep it going until she is ready for her batch) which did not happen either.
Later, in November 1, 2019 when their payment plan ended and it was time to renew, parents were requested torenew their payment plan only when student is able to attend classes regularly or choose any of options above or do private classes for good. This schedule expectation of regularly attending the class for this accelerated-levelis excluding holiday schedules or extra practice schedules or makeup class schedules. All of these instructions are given well-ahead of time at the beginning of year itself. It is our policy from past 15 years!
Updated : December 26, 2020. Aanya was in accelerated class ofyear-round lessons with full holiday schedule and dates provided well ahead of time as per full time – working – parents – holiday schedule. We are year round dance school.
2017-2018 : Samarth Setty
His first dance was a valentine dance with girl at the age of 3.5 where he showed his ability to act, dance & make people laugh/smile by showing his natural dance skills, dance etiquettes that were taught to him by his Montessori teachers.
Stage presence was natural to him just like his sister.
Our little macho man had his struggles of taking breaks in learning dance because of his birth weight, body type but he never gave up.
From a husky body type to making his body a lean-mean fat-burning machine, he has amazed us of what he could do with proper training, discipline and diet plans that his mom prepares for him.
His official journey of dance training in Indian Folk Dances started at the age of 6, Bharatnatyam at the age of 7, Bollywood at the age of 7 and then he never looked back! Prior to these years, he would appear on stage as side/back stage-dancer.
Amongst all our girls, at times he is the only Krishna, Shiva, captain, our Rahul who comes to save the day for lot of our group dances even when he is not dancing for full song. At times he is not instructed of what he needs to do except for dance steps if they were to match with group..it comes out naturally to him, without training and knowledge of dance forms/styles.(Environment)
From group dance dramas to Solo(s) in Bharatnatyam, Indian Folk Dances and Bollywood/Movie Dances, he has done it all. He has successfully performed, competed and won competitions as solo artist from 2nd place to 3rd place with only 1 hour a week of dance lessons.
His training teachers are :
His workshops include : Intermediate-Advance Workshop with Shakti Mohan-2015.
He is a perfect example of perseverance, inherited natural talent, stage presence and a best example for kids who feel like giving up, only because of body-type.
He receives photo-shoots worth $250, competition discounts and several other perks from our participating businesses.
Ashna won A $200 gift hamper that includes a photo-shoot and a FREE professional profiling and several free perks from Grace And Grooves LLC.
A perfect example of no short-cuts to success and yet balancing it beautifully with unbeatable graceful performances.
She has bagged 1st place in non-classical category and has cleared several competitions in state of Texas. (Update-September 29, 2017).
Ashna dances 1-2 hours a week Bollywood at Elite Level w/Elite Team for Grace And Grooves, paid and unpaid performances.
She has taken advance workshops with Hetal Nagaraj, Mansi Chauhan And Shakti Mohan for Indian Folk Dances, Professional Bharatnatyam, Professional Kathak and Contemporary.
First Indian Folk Dance Solo Artist under the age of 5 (under official company name Grace And Grooves other than Nirja Setty) successfully performed 3.2 minute of Indian Folk Dance. Twice!!
Audience : 100 People. Selected/Cleared Auditions for 2 different competitions in 2015. Irving-Texas. Age 4.5. Now 6.
Locations of Performances : Irving-Texas, Dallas-Texas, Frisco-Texas.
You are a perfect example of following directions just as taught at such a young age that too in Indian Folk Dances.
Diya took Free private classes(2) worth $50 during the regular classes. A Free costume rental on our elite line of costumes and a waive off on registration fees for second year. ($30).
Congratulations!! Student of the year 2014
Nirja Setty, 2014-2015.
Winner of 6 (now 6) technique focused Indian Dance Competitions in Indian Folk Dances, Fusion and Bharatnatyam(2016).
Nirja won Free Costumes and Jewelry from one of our friend-sponsors worth $100. Free Tickets to concert-$30.
A girl known to challenge judges’ knowledge in competitions as compared to her age group. Irving, Lewisville-Texas. Age 9. NOW 11.
You are a perfect example of perfect expressions/looks in Indian Performing arts-anytime a picture is taken and yet it just as graceful and beautiful. All of this with a beautiful balance in life!
Her average competition prize money amounted to $200-$300 by 2015 in various school competitions for Bharatnatyam and Indian Folk Dances. Her audience is not less than 1000 people for the dances she has performed.
Nirja regularly dances 1-hour a week in : Bharatnatyam(in 2 styles), Bollywood and Indian Folk Dances with Hetal Nagaraj and Alpana Jacob (outside Grace And Grooves LLC).
She has taken advance workshops with Mansi Chauhan, Hetal Nagaraj and Shakti Mohan for Professional Kathak and Contemporary. She has also danced National Level Competition Fogana 2013 w/Indu Mangrola-Sursangam Dance Company.
Selected in several auditions and competitions for Solos. Selected by several media and top-notch family/event/corporate-dance and professional photographers for individual profiling/close-ups during our community performances without our telling them or informing them. She was also part of Fusion team being an avid gymnasts student. Click here :
You are a perfect example of perfect expressions/looks anytime a picture is taken and yet it just as graceful and beautiful.
Congratulations to ALL our students of the year!
Thank you for working hard with us…
This post will be updated once a year. Our academic year goes from August To May.
Post Updated History : This Post was First Published on this Blog on September 25, 2017.
Pictures posted above are either past or present students of Grace and Grooves & their pictures are shared based on their exclusive photo sharing rights and approved by parents when shared/transferred to Grace And Grooves for the purpose of Grace and Grooves ONLY.
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The Competitions & Performances that we go have Judges with following qualifications with full transparency required for students to be eligible such as submitting videos, pictures, program specs, and all the other details :
Degrees in Performing Arts (Indian for Indian Dances),
Straight Background With Full Proof & Traceability,
Versatile Dancers In Their Genre – Non Stop Stage Dancers.
Full Hands-Onn w/Knowledge From Right Sources ( traceable background or universities-not the universities such as gandharv.)
Competitions We Do :
As such we have won several competitions but we have only accounted in our bags that we have done it independently ourselves and have judges who are qualified in field of Indian Performing Arts-who know what to look for in dance forms or styles, if mentioned likewise.
Non-Voting, Strict by Genre, Category, Dance Forms, Rules of Dance Form, Rubrics, Guidelines, Marks and Feedbacks by Judges with straight background, Local or International Depending on all of above.
Competitions in partnership with other dance schools/teachers are NOT INCLUDED in our list.
We do not sponsor the awards or competitions that we take part in. Please contact hetal at mail2hets@gmail.com for sponsorships.
We do not do reality competitions YET. These are not institutionalized or educational competitions.
Competitions where voting criteria is 10/100 or more at any levels are not included in our list. You are welcome to take freelance lessons from us to participate but we will not participate in voting. We will not take those on our list.
Judges who do not have any knowledge of dance or cannot outline the difference between simple things such as bollywood vs folk, fusion vs bollywood, and so on! If you do not know the rules of dance form then there is no point in judging. And so, we do not take part in those competitions.
Participant Awards are NOT listed or considered for us-obviously and that includes students who get participant awards during competitions just for participating and not winning competitions for any runner ups awards either. Culture awards are not competition awards 🙂
Wins at the Competitions that misrepresented categories/competitions/malrepresentation by the organizers are NOT listed.
Eg-Represented as Indian FOLK Competition but it was actually a Bollywood Competition and so they are NOT LISTED HERE. We have won such competitions as well.
Only legitimate competitions are listed.
We DO NOT teach Tap/Jazz/Ballet. Students who took part in fusion dances that included tap/jazz or ballet were trained from Ballet Academy of Texas(Coppell) and Prestige Dance Company(Lewisville-former Coppell Dance Center)for 2months+ or were already avid trained dancers or good gymnasts.
We taught them only Indian Classical Dance(Bharatnatyam)or Indian Folk Dance and the Fusion work to go together based on what they knew.
Some competitions are listed together as only 1 award was given for consecutive years win or in same year as prizes had material gifts/or gift cards for participants or same work received awards in 2 different places by different participants or same participants. There was only 1 ceremony for awards that happened.
Competitions that are not worth our attention –>
Students are neglected, mis-treated, insulted by organizers are NOTworth of our time. We will pass their info-you are welcome to compete but keep us out of it.
Organizers are in favor of other dance schools and allowed several re-takes to them but not to us-for no good reason are NOT worth our time. We DO NOT want children to go through that traumatic experiences.
Students are questioned about their well-being priorities only because organizer couldn’t see the child winning in-spite of stopping the vote entries are NOT worth of your child’s time.
Organizers that offer inappropriate stage areas, dressing room areas or unsafe dance conditions are eliminated from our list for any future participations due to SAFETY GUIDELINES concerning child’s safety. We don’t come there to dance in 5-8 steps of stage area.
A stage or organizer who cannot respect a child’s presence while talking just about anything that they have in mind insulting kids and their parents whatsoever, esp. talking in extremely loud voice and misbehaving in front of children because you couldn’t handle pressures (while others were allowed to do same-all drama in front of child)-is not worth our attention.
Please learn your manners FIRST when you treat a child.
Stop treating them like trash — this tells us about your parenting! Not our parents’.
An organizer who is bias to us in all the privileges given to other participants will not need our attention at any given point of time. If you have made up your mind in not allowing us to avail the privileges then why should we make kids suffer through your misconduct and inappropriate behavior just for a trophy ?
Constructive feedbacks are very welcomed. We have come this far only because of constructive feedbacks. Please tell us your background before you judge!
All of above are NOT sarcastic humor incidents and are ruled out by experiences in recent competitions and we do not want any child to face such a traumatic experience just for a competition! Our kids/students are very precious to us.
Other Blog Posts where such a traumatic incident happened : Read Here.
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Everybody in this world has their inspiration from somewhere or something. So do we and all our names. Just out of sky it did not come in our mind to get these names on our paper to register them as our own. With so many theories out there about names, we had to clear our own lists of all the DBA(s), Logo(s)….
Our Logo in 2012. It had variations such as Grace And Grooves, Grace n Grooves, Grace Grooves, Grace & Grooves, etc.
Grace And Grooves LLC (2012) : This is sort of like additional information on how we got our name. As shared in link above on Grace And Grooves LLC(2012), we got our name from audiences. Topic 2 From Here.
Here’s little more to nail-biting situation we were put through for name!
One of other variation that was used…2012 onwards.
We encountered unforeseen challenges during our participation in this walk-in competition. When asked to provide the name of our dance company, we realized we had not yet established one and were unsure how to respond. It was surprising, as the event organizer had not disclosed the requirement for a company name prior to the competition and had accepted our entry without such information.
Despite this uncertainty, the grace, poise, and originality of our choreography spoke for itself. Our performance was even compared to a widely viewed YouTube routine with over a million views. Though this initially caused us some concern, our efforts were ultimately validated when we were honored with the first-place award.
We were informed that, should we win, we would need to provide a name by the end of the event for the purpose of announcing the results. We were the only participants without an official group or company name at the time, which made our entry stand out. It became apparent that the organizers were not in favor of unregistered participants, and this requirement seemed to reflect that preference.
Our New Logo in 2015 September that we got made for Indian Folk Dances, Bharatnatyam and Fusion Dances. Bollywood was not really program back then. We started Bollywood off-late after September and logo was already done by then!!
During one of our early performances, a kind American attendee—married to an Indian—approached our team with a heartfelt compliment. Though she did not understand the language or the meaning of the song, she expressed that the choreography was so moving, it touched her deeply. Upon being asked, she specifically mentioned the final dance sequence as the moment that brought tears to her eyes.
The piece in question depicted the spiritual bond between Meera, a devoted follower of Lord Krishna, and the Lord Himself. Before the performance, the narrative was shared with the audience to provide context. The particular sequence that resonated with her portrayed Meera’s complete surrender to Lord Krishna through the Hare Krishna dhun (devotional chants), symbolizing her transcendence from the material world.
This touching duet was performed by Nirja Setty and her school friend (name withheld upon request), both adorned in custom-designed Kerala-style Tissue Pattu Pavadai. The fabric was specially ordered from India and the costumes were meticulously stitched and re-designed locally in Irving-Coppell, Texas, USA.
The emotional impact of the dance, especially as seen through the eyes of someone unfamiliar with the language but moved by its expression, marked a defining moment for us. It was in that very moment—when we were called on stage to receive the first-place award—that we spontaneously named ourselves Grace and Grooves. The name was spoken instinctively, and we immediately embraced it. It felt right. It felt like us.
The judges offered glowing feedback: “Beautiful choreography, dramatic appearances, well-executed, and stunning costumes and props.” One judge even asked, “How did you manage to choreograph something so beautiful to this song?”—a question we’ve since heard many times, and each time it brings us joy.
The choreography was created by Hetal Nagaraj, drawing from her rich training and inspirations. At the time, both performers were studying Bharatanatyam and Indian Folk Dance (pure forms) under our guidance. The intention was to prepare them as a duet team for an upcoming competition, pending audition results. While awaiting those results, we discovered this walk-in competition and decided to participate spontaneously.
This choreography has since won numerous awards—often back-to-back—and continues to captivate audiences. It’s a piece no one seems to tire of, and we continue to be humbled by the recurring question: “How did you do it?”
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Grace Creations Logo that was created much later. Before that, several works were done in fusion dances.
Grace Creations(2013) :
Our name was directly inspired by an Indian artistic dance company based on the East Coast of the United States. From the moment we were introduced to their work—through a friend who shared their YouTube videos—we were captivated. This introduction occurred after our friend had seen Mrs. Nagaraj’s semi-classical performance and felt compelled to show us similar, inspiring content.
Another key source of inspiration was an Indian dance school in Georgia, USA, known for their beautifully executed and uniquely crafted fusion choreography. Both of these esteemed institutions are rooted in Bharatanatyam and have made a significant impact on the Indian classical and fusion dance communities in the U.S.
While we admired and began following their work, we were also committed to developing our own artistic identity. We infused a wide range of styles and dance forms into our choreography—sometimes staying within the boundaries of a particular tradition, and at other times pushing creative limits entirely. Nonetheless, all of our students received foundational training in the original classical forms to ensure the integrity and authenticity of each style was respected.
Much of our fusion choreography is performed under the banner Grace Creations—a creative extension of our artistic vision. Grace Creations would later evolve to perform independently in the years to come and is currently on hiatus.
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Nruthyakala Dance Academy(2017) : The word comes from words Nruthya (or Nritya meaning dance) and Kala meaning Art. We had in mind several other names but we needed a name that goes for both the dance forms – Bharatanatyam and Indian Folk Dances(India). Main idea was to have Nruthya(Nritya meaning Dance) that is combination of Nritta and Natya – both;thus separating these two beautiful forms from all the other programs that we offer. Eventually, it may happen that Bharatnatyam and Indian Folk Dances may operate separately but until then this is it-we loved this as it best-fits our need!
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Mirchi Dance Academy(2017): This word was decided last year! Very well, it came from Red Chillies Entertainment (An Entertainment Company in Mumbai, India). Mirchi(meaning hot pepper/chillies) is always a must have in plate if you have roots from Kathyavaad. Coming from hybrid-gujarati family, we were born eating tasty peppers/chillies with our all-time favorite theplas, stuffed paranthas or bajri-rotlas with all the other goodies. Some habits don’t go, they say! From our food plate to our DBA name. And you thought we don’t love Bollywood :)…Yes, bring it onn. It is tasty!
Kalasri and (often used kalashri by most media) Classical was as is acquisition, the name is not changed. Company was too teritorial for irving, keller, southlake and south irving to have logo rather on verge of shutdown until Ms. Hetal took it over.
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Recital 2017: JALSO (Celebrations, Absolute Fun-in Life)-Nritya(Dance) Ki Masti (Fun). Venue: MCL Grand Theater, Lewisville-Texas. April 9, 2017.
Why Jalso, Nritya Ki Masti ?
JALSO: Celebrating the Joy of Indian Festivals Through Dance, Culture, and Community
In 2016, while planning our next annual production, we envisioned creating a performance that celebrated the vibrant spirit of Indian festivals, family traditions, and life’s joyous milestones.
During this creative journey, Hetal Joshi Nagaraj was inspired by “Jalso”—a well-known Gujarati cultural festival held in Mumbai, India, recognized for celebrating Gujarati heritage, arts, music, and community.
The word Jalso (જલસો) itself conveys a sense of celebration, festivity, enjoyment, and coming together, making it a fitting inspiration for a production centered on the colors and traditions of Indian culture.
For many Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and families who have made the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW), Texas region their home for generations, festivals are much more than annual celebrations—they are a meaningful way to preserve cultural identity, strengthen family bonds, and pass traditions from one generation to the next.
Hetal Nagaraj’s vision was to recreate that warmth and vibrancy on stage through dance, music, storytelling, and theatrical presentation.
The production concept explored the many celebrations that define Indian life, including:
Traditional festivals
Wedding celebrations
Family ceremonies
Seasonal festivities
Community gatherings
Cultural customs and life milestones
Through choreography, costumes, music, and storytelling, the audience would experience the richness and diversity of India’s cultural heritage while celebrating the shared values of family, tradition, and community.
From Adi-Shakti to a New Creative Vision, without foresaking fundamentals.
Hetal Joshi Nagaraj’s 2016 production, Adi-Shakti – The Primordial Divine Energy, was designed as a charitable fundraising initiative supporting CRY America Inc.
Through community partnerships, sponsorships, advertising, ticket sales, donations, a fashion showcase, sponsored costumes from premium boutiques, and Grace And Grooves’ own costume collection, the event successfully combined performing arts with community service and philanthropy.
Following the success of Adi-Shakti, Hetal Nagaraj’s original vision for the 2017 recital was to present a fully ticketed production dedicated to Bharatanatyam, Indian Folk Dance under the working title “Nrutya Ni Masti.” And Bollywood was very new program. Students were just learning.
Hetal Nagaraj was not sure if Bollywood will make it to production or recital part of it.
Why “Nrutya Ni Masti”?
The title combines two meaningful concepts:
Nrutya (also spelled Nritya or Nruthya) refers to expressive Indian dance that blends rhythm, movement, storytelling, and emotion.
Masti represents joy, celebration, fun, and the lively spirit of togetherness.
Together, Nrutya Ni Masti may be interpreted as “The Joy of Dance” or “A Celebration Through Dance.”
As part of artistic planning, Hetal Nagaraj also obtained appropriate republication and performance permissions for selected Bharatanatyam literature part of the dance genre. These permissions were to waive off IP and Copyright Policies. This ensured that traditional artistic works were presented with respect for both cultural heritage and intellectual property.
When selecting the title, simply using the technical Sanskrit terms Nritta (pure dance) or Natya (dramatic storytelling) did not fully represent the scope of the production. Hetal Nagaraj’s vision extended beyond a single aspect of Indian classical dance—it embraced both expressive storytelling and celebratory cultural performances.
Therefore, the broader and more inclusive term Nrutya was chosen.
Today, Nrutya is the most commonly accepted transliteration in Gujarati, while Nritya is more frequently used in Hindi and Sanskrit, and Nruthya is commonly seen in South Indian languages. Although all three spellings are correct in different linguistic traditions,
“Nrutya Ni Masti” best reflected the Gujarati cultural inspiration behind the production. While Hetal Nagaraj wanted to keep it Hindi influenced so that national language is respected. Thus, Nritya ki Masti.”Nrutya Ni Masti” best reflected the Gujarati cultural inspiration behind the production.
From bollywood as a possibility within the production to bollywood just made it in!
“Nrutya Ni Masti” best reflected the Gujarati cultural inspiration behind the production. While Hetal Nagaraj wanted to keep it Hindi influenced so that national language is respected. Thus, Nritya ki Masti.
In few months because of several packages and 3-4 times a week of lessons, those students progressed from beginners to straight competitions levels. Performances were about results as parents booked to perform in various local shows, other than once a week class.
Ultimately, those songs took the lead of the dance production theme itself.
On a record, Hetal Joshi Nagaraj was not even supposed to take these kids batches in Irving – Las Colinas areas as Deepthi was to handle it but Deepthi called in 1st month itself that boys were giving her hard time.
So Hetal had to take up all the kids batches. Moms then continued with Deepthi. Moms were brought by Hetal Nagaraj too from IANT role play performances and they loved it so wanted to do lessons.
That’s why Hetal Nagaraj did not want to take additional batches. Her schedule was packed! Nonetheless all students graduated in 2021.
Preserving Culture Through the Performing Arts
At Grace And Grooves, every production is designed with a purpose that extends beyond entertainment. Through performances such as Adi-Shakti, Jalso, and Nrutya Ni Masti, our goal is to preserve Indian cultural traditions, promote intercultural understanding, provide meaningful performance opportunities for students and artists, and strengthen community connections through the universal language of dance.
By celebrating festivals, traditions, and the shared experiences of families across generations, these productions help ensure that India’s rich artistic heritage continues to thrive within multicultural communities in Texas and beyond.
Story Line of the Show –
Story Line moves with a 1st generation of NRI who enters the world of multi-generation NRI from festival to festival, community to community, religion to religion, marriage ceremonies and mehdi nights as special feature within the dance ultimately falling in love with Indian asthetic of celebration of life – through dances.
Thoughout the performances, she is teased by multi-generation NRI about the richness she brings from India or is rather traditional mindset. Scenes of movies, literature books and famous known scriptures were demonstrated on the stage by students of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj introducing students to India’s rich culture and heritage along with US history and environment.
It also reflected lessons of wellness through incidences of heat stroke in DFW, Texas Summers and awareness to US cultures.
The show ends with girl teasing them back with richness of values of rich culture and heritage of India celebrating through Mehdi nights London Thumakda and a multi cultural marriage scene.
Thus, the name. Role Play – Ashna, Akhil, Samarth, Nirja, Mansi and Deepthi.
Community Partnerships That Enhanced the Cultural Experience
An important aspect of the production was the collaboration with local businesses and community partners whose services complemented the cultural themes presented on stage. These partnerships not only strengthened community engagement but also highlighted small businesses serving the Indian and South Asian communities across the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
To support the Mehendi (Henna) Ceremony segment of the production—a celebration inspired by one of India’s most cherished pre-wedding traditions—we welcomed several community sponsors, including Sheetal’s Mehendi Arts, Jazz It Up Inc., and The Grace Effect.
The Mehendi ceremony performances celebrated the joy, music, dance, and family traditions associated with Indian wedding festivities, creating an immersive cultural experience for audiences of all backgrounds.
These collaborations reflected our broader mission of supporting local entrepreneurs, promoting culturally rooted businesses, and creating opportunities where performing arts, traditional craftsmanship, and community organizations could come together under one platform.
By integrating local businesses into our productions, Grace And Grooves not only showcased Indian performing arts but also fostered economic and cultural engagement within the community. These partnerships helped audiences experience Indian traditions beyond the stage, celebrating the artistry, customs, and entrepreneurial spirit that contribute to the richness of South Asian cultural heritage.
Such collaborations continue to align with our commitment to community-based arts programming, cultural preservation, small business engagement, and inclusive multicultural experiences, reinforcing the role of the performing arts as a catalyst for education, community connection, and cultural appreciation.
An important component of Nritya Ki Masti – Jalso (Recital 2017) was the collaboration between artists, faculty, students, volunteers, and community partners who collectively contributed to the success of the production.
Costumes –
Ms. Hetal could not even catch up to costumes as the order of bulk costume was stuck in New York while other bulk pack was stuck in snow storm via London.
Adults – mommy and me program got lucky to find their costumes online on amazon and paid extra shipping to get those early, locally.
Because of sudden inclusion of Bollywood back to back lessons, a need for costumes became unevitable and thus, were ordered on time. But then, logistics in snow storm stalled the shipments.
Hetal Nagaraj ran to bulk fabric wholeseller, got the bulk fabric and had to make sample right away. Hetal Nagaraj cloth pin the cuts by hand which then Deepthi stitched. Deepthi did not know much. Deepthi knew some stitch work by machine. Hetal stitched one sample by hand. Hetal just told her to follow exactly as she showed how to.
In urgency, they made about 15 costumes just to pass by 2 weekends. Ms. Hetal completed the rest to top up fancy accessories.
Costumes arrived much later by then performances were done. It was a list of engagement to marriage and festival songs. Since then, Grace and Grooves uses local tailors to get the costumes. While the shipments since then, have accessories and certain clothing materials only.
Thus, the contributor was Jazz It Up Inc., Grace And Grooves’ in-house costume and dance property (prop) division was created and inventory list was thus created because of these infra. This was to establish a sustainable support system which indirectly maanges the organization’s Elite Competition Teams and Pre-Competition TeamsNeeds.
The division aka Hetal Joshi Nagaraj specializes in designing, sourcing, maintaining, and managing costumes and performance accessories that meet the artistic and technical requirements of Indian performing arts. These few months triggered local manufacturing and local suppliers of bulk materials.
Not only deepthi but Company aka Hetal Joshi Nagaraj uses several local indian and non indian tailors.
In addition to supporting Grace And Grooves productions, costumes are occasionally made available on a rental basis to external students and performers, subject to availability or are sold off when its usages in company fades away. Custom-designed and professionally stitched costumes generally require several weeks of planning and production, reflecting the craftsmanship and preparation involved in creating authentic performance attire.
By maintaining its own costume resources, Grace And Grooves is able to preserve traditional aesthetics, ensure consistency in production quality, and provide students with professionally presented performances while supporting long-term arts education.
Nritya Ki Masti – Jalso (Recital 2017) brought together performances in three major Indian dance disciplines:
Bharatanatyam
Bollywood Dance
Indian Folk Dance
Community and Festival Batches.
The production featured students ranging in age from 5 to 40 years, each performing within the discipline in which they had received formal training. The recital reflected Grace And Grooves’ philosophy of providing age-inclusive arts education while encouraging lifelong participation in the performing arts.
A special highlight of the production was the Choreographer’s Retreat for “Budding choreographers and future leaders“, featuring performances and artistic presentations by:
Hetal Nagaraj
Mansi Chauhan
Deepthi Chandrasekaran
Each choreographer presented unique interpretations and dance styles, demonstrating the diversity and richness of Indian performing arts while inspiring students through professional artistic leadership.
Celebrating Student Milestones’ And 1st of several achievements.
One particularly memorable moment of the recital was the Bharatanatyam presentation by a 10-year-old male student – Samarth Setty, who performed a complete Jatiswaram lasting approximately 5 minutes and 26 seconds under the artistic guidance of Hetal Nagaraj.
The performance represented an important milestone in the student’s classical dance journey and highlighted Grace And Grooves’ commitment to nurturing young artists through structured training, mentorship, and performance opportunities.
Dhamaal Events very first Online Hybrid Class to one student on 10+2 hour of Bharatanatyam workshop from Bhuvaneshwari Murugan across Arkansas, USA was dearly missed. This class was a continuation to Ms. Hetal class but the results were not good thus, student switched back to Ms. Hetal.
Recital 2017 marked an important milestone not only for our students but also for our growing faculty.
The production featured the first independent choreographic works by Mansi Chauhan and Deepthi Chandrasekaran, presented under the artistic mentorship and supervision of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj along with lesson plans that were to adhere to so that students achieve.
While each of them had a roller coaster year with several challenges across the months–they were encouraged to explore own creative voice, every work to remain aligned with Grace And Grooves’ structured curriculum, pedagogical framework, lesson plans, and the technical and artistic standards of the respective dance genre.
Not to mention, achieve latter goals for the students, parents, Hetal Joshi Nagaraj and the company’s upcoming shows, performances, gigs and few other assignments.
This balance between creative independence and educational consistency is a key component of Grace And Grooves’ faculty development philosophy under Hetal Joshi Nagaraj. As a trainer, she makes sure of results (as several parents come for results with specifics to use it for educational purposes) and fun to align with company’s everlasting success ratio with such a magnificent documeted graduate list, revenue part of it as businesses run on revenue and the growth of it.
Emerging interns as future leaders are mentored through a progressive process that enables them to develop choreography, strengthen instructional skills, and build confidence while preserving the authenticity and integrity of each dance form thereby achieve the goals of the company and the students.
The recital therefore represented a significant professional achievement for both choreographers, marking their transition from students and assistants to independent artistic contributors within the Grace And Grooves educational framework.
Students Representing Communities Across North Texas
The recital proudly featured students representing multiple communities, and exclusive students of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj’s locations throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, including:
Las Colinas
Plano 121 Mcdermott Independence
Lewisville
Frisco West, 423
Each student performed within their respective discipline, demonstrating months of dedicated training, rehearsals, and artistic development.
At the conclusion of the production, all participating students received 2017 Participation Medals in recognition of their commitment and accomplishments.
In addition, Ashna Pethe was honored as the Student of the Year, receiving a commemorative trophy and a gift voucher in recognition of her dedication, growth, and achievements.
Grace And Grooves also recognized each Interns for their artistic leadership, while students were introduced to the audience along with highlights of their individual accomplishments and progress throughout the year.
Preserving Memories Through Photography and Videography
Documenting performances has always been an important part of preserving artistic growth and organizational history.
Photography for Nritya Ki Masti – Jalso (Recital 2017) was provided by Bombay Photography, while videography and production documentation were managed by The Grace Effect, Grace And Grooves’ internal photography and videography initiative.
The Grace Effect was established exclusively to document the educational journey of Grace And Grooves students, productions, choreographers, and participating artists. Its purpose has always been archival, educational, promotional, and historical documentation for the organization and its community.
Under the direct supervision of Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj, The Grace Effect has remained dedicated exclusively to Grace And Grooves and its affiliated activities. It has never operated as a commercial photography or videography service for outside organizations, private clients, volunteer assignments, or unrelated events.
This dedicated approach has ensured consistency, quality, privacy, and comprehensive documentation of the organization’s artistic journey. Nagaraj Kunchum thus has an uptight on front end camera, at all times near switch boards, all the way up on the balcony or in the light window. As a husband, he just takes care of master file. All the other is assistant crew.
Looking Ahead
Every recital marks both the culmination of one artistic season and the beginning of another.
As the curtains closed on Nritya Ki Masti – Jalso (Recital 2017), planning for the next production was already well underway. The creative team had already selected the theme and title for Recital 2018, continuing Grace And Grooves’ tradition of innovation, cultural storytelling, and artistic excellence.
After all, every ending is simply the opening act of the next performance.
Picture Gallery –
Every Production, or Recital Is a Graduation Milestone
At Grace And Grooves, each recital and production represents more than a public performance—it serves as an important milestone in a student’s artistic journey.
Students demonstrate the knowledge, technique, discipline, and performance skills they have acquired throughout the year, progressing toward higher levels of learning and responsibility. In many ways, every recital functions as a practical graduation, where students advance not only in technical ability but also in confidence, stage presence, teamwork, leadership, and artistic maturity.
As students grow, so do our faculty. This continuous cycle of learning, mentorship, performance, and leadership development is fundamental to the Grace And Grooves philosophy, ensuring that every production contributes to the long-term growth of both artists and educators.
— Do not copy any word, concept or any ideology, verbiage, picture , any clip or dance, or any wordings of Ms Hetal as it is full trademarked, some copyright received and some ip too, by country – 2012-current
Inspiration was an Indian-Movie. You read it right!
Dil To Pagal Hai(1997) Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri-Dixit Nene, and Karishma Kapoor under the direction of Yash Chopra. Though not much into movies, Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj was very selective back then about feeding her eyes when it comes to the magic of Indian Cinema(Bollywood). To sit that long for a movie was a non-sense deal to her back then. But a musical drama as part of the movie itself had her all excited and she watched it finally in 2001 and it never left her mind. She thought maybe she could do likewise in Indian Folk Dances, Bharatnatyam..some day if she would get to do it!
Testing Waters of Musical Drama in Recital 2017 with Role Play of Guest Artist with Bollywood Beginners. May 2017. Picture Courtesy: Phani Pydimaari, Picture Captions and Edits : The Grace Effects.
The whole idea of musicals in Indian Folk Dances and Bharatnatyam(or any classical dances of India) existed back then too.These had very matured audiences and trained performers back then. There were several musical ballets happening in the city(Ahmedabad, India) with the elements of Nritya and intricate elements of Natya combined very beautifully! Mrs.Hetal Nagaraj had watched several notable works from some of the most well-known theater productions to recorded-live musicals by amateur artists/college students for fund-raising activities on women-upbringing, child-marriages, religion riots in Ahmedabad city areas and so on!
But all these years, as if it took its own time to get into the plan of action. 2017, she came back home with a big YAHOO after a chaotic day of a culture community event organized by Indian Association of North Texas, Dallas-Texas(USA). She finally did it in a public community event(India-Day 2017) in Dallas-Texas(U.S.A) under 5 minutes with props!
Indian Folk Dance Category and Fusion Category – 2017 Public Performance. Picture Courtesy-The Grace Effects(Added here-Feb 5, 2017)
Not 1, but 2 of those musicals in Indian Folk Dances and Bollywood-Fusion Dances Categories. She took up this challenge when the songs that were ready to go on stage had her scratch the head! And she asked, why not? We had done a mini-version of it in Recital 2016 to test the waters. And so January 21, 2017 was a big day! It was challenging to get all the props all the way to the stage. Thanks to our choreographers Mansi Chauhan and Deepthi Chandrasekaran who made themselves available last moment and it worked out just well. The only challenge was that it was a public event and it was not in their control unlike Recital 2016! However, Choreography and set-up was already planned as most of the students knew their part well enough as it was work of our Recital 2016 : Dance of Gods featuring Adi-Shakti in their own categories. But the Yahoo part was that they managed to cover all the Navarasa (The 9 Moods) as per Natya-Shastra in both the category dances without breaking the rules of any category and yet keeping it creative enough for community fun-performances. Not about perfection but basic requirements were met.
We were able to keep intact the dance categories that our students were trained in(their joined programs). As per our research, it has never happened in Dallas-Fortworth Areas(until 2017 January) and that makes us very first people to do it(Yes!). We have seen dance lessons been taught in the name of Folk, Bharatnatyam and yet ended up showcasing just plain Bollywood Stuff.
Just how she had to believe one more time in all the training that she did in past and all that she had taught to her students. It went well and smoother than she had expected for what was in her control. Fundamentals never run out of fashion and formulas don’t change! It will teach you not only common sense but there is a reason why rules exist in pretty much in any performing arts. If you follow fundamental elements of Indian performing arts(Natya Shashtra in this case) then you will cover pretty much everything with little efforts. Creativity is just an added element to it.
Dil To Pagal Hai-True, we mean it. Now, you call that a Phrase, Bollywood Movie Name, Indian Folk Dance or Classical Bharatnatyam-none of our business. Don’t come after us for this!
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Our Founding Member Hetal Nagaraj performs regularly for Bharatnatyam, Folk Dances of India And Bollywood
Past Performances of Grace And Grooves. List of paid and unpaid public events – 2015 and before in no specific order of occurrences and numbered per event/not by number of performances):
Grace And Grooves performs at Plano Library, at a Diwali Event (Organized by Independent Groups). Ms. Mansi Chauhan offered Bollywood Workshop-Age Group 4 to 8 Years.
Grace And Grooves performs at an invited event organized by DFW-Hindu Temple, Irving-Texas featuring Semi-Classical Bharatnatyam-Bollywood Style , Bollywood-Folk, and Bollywood Performances.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam(Shabdam/Shabhdam), Garba, and Bollywood Dances in a walkathon organized by CRY America Inc in Irving-Texas.
Bollywood, Bharatnatyam and Folk Dances of India at CRY America Inc walkathon in Irving-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam (Art-work), Bollywood and Fusion at Iskon-Dallas at a sponsored event.
Grace And Grooves performs Lavani, Garba, Ghoomar/Ghummar, and Folk tale lyrical in Dallas-Texas for Dallas Catholic Charities in Dallas-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam(as guest artist, Allaripu) in competition where Ms. Hetal Joshi was judge for Non-Classical Category-Dallas, Texas. (2011)
Grace And Grooves performs Garba, Bollywood Dances, and Lavani in May Festival -Fortworth.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam(Pushpanjali-Guru Vandana), Tollywood Dances, Bollywood Dances, Folk Lyrical in Dallas International Festival, Dallas-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Kalbelia, Kshatriya, Tippani and Bollywood Dances in Plano, Texas at an International Festival representing India.
Grace And Grooves showcased art-works (Garba of Smt. Indu Mangrola) and Semi-Classical Kathak in Tarrant County-College, Arlington-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam(Thillana), Bollywood Dances, Rajasthani Folk Tale(with Chirmi) event organized by DFW International in Addison, Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Gidda, Bhangra(Beginners) and Bollywood performances at Ram Mandir-Plano Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Bollywood Folk, Semi-Classical Kathak, Bollywood Hip Hop, and Bhangra at an event organized by Indian Association of North Texas, Dallas-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performs Teratalli, Garba, Ghoomar/Ghummar, and Chirmi in Fortworth Festival-Forworth.
One of our Elite, Trained Gymnasts
Grace And Grooves performs at inaugural function with Bollywood Fusion, Koli, Lavani, KummiAdi, Bihu at a sponsored event in Colleyville, Texas featuring Cultures of India. PAID Performance.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam(Jatiswaram)in Grapevine-Texas for Diwali event organized by Denton Association.
Grace And Grooves performs Raas/Dandiya, Bollywood-Retro, and Fusion Tap w/Bollywood in association with Dance Workshop at Lewisville Grand Theatre(Lewisville). Students were avid Tap/Jazz dancers trained for more than 2 years at Coppell Dance Center(Coppell) and later at Prestige Dance Center (Lewisville), Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed Bollywood-Lyrical, Lezim, Bollywood Bhangra, and Bollywood HipHop at Chinese Festival in Arlington, Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed KumiAdi, Garbi, and Bollywood Dances, organized by DFW International in Addison-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed Lavani, Bollywood Dances, Semi-Classical (Bharatnatyam), and Tollywood in International Travel Show-Global Beatz Stage-Dallas, Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed Chirmi, Bollywood, Rumaal Dance, Bharatnatyam(Lyrical Artwork) at World Fest, Addison-Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed Fusion of Tap, Bollywood Hip Hop, Nepali Folk and Rajasthani Folk Tale in Grapevine Texas by Denton Association.
Grace And Grooves performed Folk-Fusion, Bollywood Dances, in Plano-Texas. Students were avid Tap/Jazz dancers trained for more than 2 years at Coppell Dance Center-Coppell and later at Prestige Dance and Performing Arts Centre(Lewisville), Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed Bharatnatyam-Ballet Fusion in DFW Hindu Temple, Irving-Texas. Students were trained in Ballet from Ballet Academy of Texas-Coppell, Texas.
Grace And Grooves performed Fusion at Indian Association of North Texas, – Dallas Texas: Tap, Jazz, Gymnastics, Salsa, Bollywood and Folk. Students were trained or were avid dancers/gymnasts in Tap, Jazz, and Gymnastics, from Ballet Academy of Texas-Coppell, Coppell Dance Center/ Prestige Dance and Performing Arts Centre (Lewisville), and gymnastics studios respectively. Ms. Joshi took required Salsa Personal Training from a Master Choreographer at Arthur Murray Dance Studio (Plano). Please do not copy our artwork without training. It may harm your child.
Grace And Grooves performs Bharatnatyam/Tap Fusion, Bollywood Dances, Kumari (Indian) Semi-Classical in Addison, Texas event organized by DFW International. . Students were avid Tap/Jazz dancers trained for more than 2 years at Coppell Dance Center-Coppell and later at Prestige Dance and Performing Arts Centre(Lewisville), Texas.
Detailed workshops and performances at American Mensa by our founding member, Hetal Joshi.
Grace And Grooves (Ms. Hetal Joshi) performs for consecutive 3 days in Culture Cowtown Event (National Gathering) organized by American-Mensa at Fort Worth-Texas, for Classical Dances of India, Folk Dances of India and Nepal, and Bollywood Dances. The performances featured Bharatnatyam (Kalashetra/Pandanallur), Fusion, Semi-Classical, Bollywood and various Folk Dances of India with variations in styles and techniques with time-line. Folk Dances of India discussed were – Garba, Raas-Dandiya, Gidda, Garbi, Bhangra, Lavani, Kshtariya, Lezim, Koli, Dumhal, Tribal Dances of India, Chhau, Sambalpuri Folk, Rumali Dance, Tippani, Matki, Bhavaai, and many more were showcased with variations/types, techniques and costumes. An educational workshop was also given after the performance with LIVE participation from audiences to American-Mensa Members on the all of above with and without costumes/jewelry. Over 30 Mensa members participated in the event of which a few were performing arts major.
Grace And Grooves performs and gives workshop at Uplift Education – Summit International Preparatory, Arlington-Texas featuring Bollywood Dances, Choppai-Bollywood Style.
Grace And Grooves performs at Independence Elementary, Lewisville featuring Tollywood Performances-Semi-Classical Style , Bollywood Dance.
Grace And Grooves performs at Harmony School of Innovation, Carrollton featuring creative fusion styles.
Uplift Education-Summit International Preparatory, Arlington-Texas. Workshop and Performances
Grace And Grooves performs at Isaacs Early Childhood School featuring a neo-classical fusion and bollywood dances.
Grace And Grooves performs at Universal Academy, Coppell featuring Bollywood Dances.
Grace And Grooves performs at Castle Hills Elementary, Lewisville featuring various Bollywood Dances such as Medley of creative Modern and Traditional Bollywood Dances and fusion of Ethnic Rajasthani Folk dance styles.
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