Indian Dance School in Dallas Fort-worth

Guest Artists @Grace And Grooves Dance Productions | Annual Recitals | Programs

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Celebrating all our guest artists who have performed with us in past in our journey of dance productions. These guest artist are invited to come and perform with their own work. The talent that they perform are not taught by us. These are not our students either. They have their own dance/talent academy at some place/city or have their own group that they perform. We pick their performance piece dance based on our dance production.

These Guest Artist are local or new artists who have just stepped in the world of Indian Performing Arts or have just started performing.

It is our absolute honor to introduce them to our audiences and as well work with them.

guestartist20162016 : Dance of Gods : Adi-Shakti. 
Event : A fundraiser for CRY America showcasing Bharatanatyam, 
Bollywood, Indian Folk Dances. 
Fusion Dances by Elites in respective categories.
Guest Artist : 
Dancer : Meghna Murali, A Bharatanatyam dance presentation on Devi.
Singer : Mala Pydimari, Carnatic Singer.

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2017 : Jalso : Celebration of Life with Dance,
Event : Nritya Ki Masti, Navarasa in Bharatanatyam, 
Bollywood And Indian Folk Dances. 
A seperate presentation of Fusion Dances was also showed by our own 
students, elites-trained in 3 different dance forms/styles.
Guest Artist : 
Dancer : Easter Bunny.
Guestartist20182018 : ABCD - American Born Cultured Desi
Event : Participating fundraiser for a private foundation-Cqunce Inc.
Dances in Bharatanatyam, Bollywood & Indian Folk Dances 
featuring Festivals of India or celebrated by Indians outside India.
A special 11 minute tribute to Shahrukh Khan - King of Bollywood.
Exclusive Fusion Dances were showcased by our elites who are trained
in 2-3 different dance forms.
Guest Artists : 
Dances : 
Mishu Shashtri with her team for Bollywood Garba featuring Navratri.
Ritu Kharbanda with her team of Rang Barse duet featuring Holi.
Instruments :
Arjun Iyer (Middle Schooler, LISD School Band)-Clarinet & Keyboard.
Kedar Golvekar : Introducing Music for SRK Tribute on Guitar.
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2019 : Anantha-1 Dance Production. Special Presentations by Rinku Das for Kathak and Manipuri.

rinkumani22019 : Anantha-1 Dance Production.
Event : An Exclusive Dance Production featuring a full 
Bharatanatyam Margam,Copyright Dances in Bharatanatyam, 
Folk Dances of India featuring North, East, West & South India.
Special presentation by Elites for Fusion dances such as Swala Jathi,
Rabindra Nruthya. Fully trained in their own dances.
Guest Artist :
Dances : 
Rinku Das for Kathak Classical Dances
Rinku Das for Manipuri Classical Dances.
Rinku Das was also introducing choreographer for our company that year.
Singing :
Our own elite student-Ashna Pethe representing LISD choir.

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Salutations To Our People, Staff, Teams…We love you.

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We thought of compiling the list of parents | students | interns | staff. They either come to us or they do it remote. ALL school/college/internships are paid to students, as applicable. Volunteer assignments are given as well. Meet our people / admin / coordinators / interns, as required, with full 99% involvement of Hetal Nagaraj :

  • These people are trained from all walks of life or we train them through our internship programs.
  • all the outsourced companies or freelancers that we have worked with or their executives are also mentioned in this staff list.
  • Generated opportunities / positions such as administrative, social-media intern, coordinator, IT-interns, website interns, OPT-candidates & fresh graduates in performing arts for full time, part time, w2, contract as well non-profit volunteer positions. All kinds of staff under Ms. Hetal : here & here. Hetal is Certified Trainer from IIM-AMA & more than 50 specialialities. (www.hetaln.com)
  • You don’t have to be without a job to be part of our teams 😉 Dance brings us together! This is how we love our crew so we love to talk about them! How do you all love your crew ?
  • All dates/times/months/years as per operating hours (does not include company-holidays/their requested holidays for any emergencies)
  • The Grace Effects Crew.
  • pseudonym – alias, nickname, pen name, nom de guerre., appellation, designation, soubriquet, sobriquet – a name that is used as pen name to create most often a a seperate brand or identity other than the individual’s other work areas.
  • All our staff sign their hours of volunteers, internships or their work hours specificially well ahead of time with exclusively duties or responsibilities to perform. some have their days and times scheduled as well so that ms. hetal can assign them their work. There is a reason why Ms. hetal always had an admin for all these scheduling and activities plus hetaln.com.
  • We encourage people to use a pseudonym to create their own independent brand in this field so that their other fields are undisturbed. Pseudonyms are nicknames or alias. All by full paperwork. Ms. Hetal M. Joshi goes by Hetal Nagaraj.

Dance | Performing Arts brought us together. Joining Date to Ending Dates as applicable.

  • Swati Burra/Swati S. : Coordinator & Admin : 5 years from 2011 to 2016.
    • Part time : 4 days a week
    • Training Ended-Moved to IT OWN consultancy – we are so happy for her.
    • Read about her.
  • Krishna veni putrevu 2012, odyssey – direct company vs company-collab – 6months. refused to go to north-dallas(after agreeing for it) so collab was dissolved. all 12 students officially joined folk classes under hetal nagaraj at south-irving location!
  • Shruti Sheladia : intern/holidays/as available. August 2012 to December 2013.
  • Mansi Chauhan : intern/holidays/as available.
  • Rinku Das : Nov 2018 to August 2019 : Direct Hire.
  • Digvijay Singh. aka Dg or Dj, Jasmindar & family : August 2018/2019.
    • Internship August 2018 to March 2019, as available.
    • Leadership Work March 2019.
    • 2022 : Promoted to Digital Asset Strategy Manager on Paid Role.
    • IT internships: https://www.hetaln.com/leadership
    • 2019-2024.
  • Navneet Jadeja & Family – Hetal’s dance-class friend in high school – often visits Dallas Texas and performs with Hetal’s group. Available for only Hetal’s group. Commercial artist in India – Mumbai & Delhi | Freelancer – Not associated with company directly. 
    • Freelancer.
  • Hetal Shah Patel, Patel & Family. : August 2016 | 2nd generation dances with us | Freelancer – Not associated with company directly. pseudonym 
    • Moved to hetaln.com for projects in IT and Dance.
  • Vanita Patel : August 2018 | Freelancer – Not associated with company directly.
  • Jinal Shah Mehta : August 2018 | 2nd generation dances with us | former partner owner of Reachh Mediaa. pseudonym 
    • Moved to hetaln.com
  • Kalpana Sai : March 2019 to till date | Freelancer – Not associated with company directly.
    • Moved to PR teams for big projects.
  • Shweta (Thakkar) Jagadish : August 2016 – March 20, 2025 | 2nd generation. parent used to dance with Ms. Hetal in Ahmedabad – Freelancer – Not associated with company directly. Often visits Dallas. Mainstream dancer
    • Moved to Reachh Mediaa Programs to complete trainings and other PR activities.
  • Deepthi Chandrasekaran : solo artist/teach as available/from Jan 2014 to 2022. More about Deepthi.
  • Sindhu J : March 2014 Student to performing team/Graduate.
    • Leadership Work August 2018
    • Successful delivery of all projects assigned.
    • Takes short term projects in dance.
  • Kavitha R : August 2018 – Freelance 2021 : Congratulations NEW Mommy – Break.
  • Tejaswini K : August 2018
    • Student to performing team/Graduate in January 2019 Anantha.
    • Family plans from Dec 2018.
  • Mandi Parikh : intern/holidays. : August 2018 to Nov 1, 2022.
    • Internship As available, short work only/staff until Nov 1, 2022.
    • Only available to dance for elites team until 2023-completing degree.
    • pseudonym 
  • Samar B & Family : January 2019 Onwards .
    • Internship January to August 2019. Leadership Work August 2019. Freelancer – Not associated with company directly.
    • Moved to by project from 2020 pandemic.
  • Bhuvaneshwari Murugan – 2016 to 2017 : online activities or hybrid as needed.
  • Prushti Dave :
    • Internship of IT(Information Technology), back office – IT / admin / coordinator : March 2019 – August 2019.
    • Leadership Work August 2019 onwards IT (Information Technology).
    • Graduated 2021 – works independently for Ms. Hetal on contract.
    • Successfully delivered 3 projects – development along with Ms. Hetal’s Teams + other 6 projects.
    • https://www.hetaln.com/leadership
    • Freelancer – Not associated with company directly.
    • Moved to hetaln.com
  • Anamika Jain : June 2019.
    • Performing team/freelance/under training
    • 2020 – left | too many travels and family commitments.
  • Ketki S : New : June 2019 to October 2019.
    • Reason for leaving : Unable to commit due to travels.
  • Nimisha Sri : intern/holidays. March 2019 – 2021 : launched in 1 show and few shoots but got job so unable to commit.
  • Devi S/Balasundaram : New – Sept 2019 to Oct 31 2019.
    • Reason for leaving : Started some business.
  • Dr. Puja Natesan : New. Student to performing team/Graduate.
    • Continued Education/Performing team. Come see her graduate at Anantha-2020.
    • Performs for online events as required or when she finds time.
  • Jeya Ravi : New
    • External-Continued Education/Performing team/under training – Subject to on-hold/Visa.
    • Takes occassional paid work.
    • Not associated with company directly and Elite teams or will represent company or hetal.
  • Yagna Pathak(Sept 2019 1st week – October 1st week) : Freelance projects/short terms/On-Hold. Background check – cancelled/on-hold. moved out of town/city/state thus unable to commit.
  • Rachita Umesh(Feb 2020) : Freelance short-term batches, on-board trial period & Background check – cancelled as the batches rolled off due to low enrollments. More about Ms. Rachita.
  • Santosh K (June 2016 to March 21 2021) :
    • August 2016 to June 2020 : Our pre-judgement team for competitions for Non-Classical Dances/Genre, as needed, by task & competition.
    • 2016-2017 : Judged for our “pricey” & “very strict” non-voting dance competition/non-classical genre as out of institute perspective and inputs esp for those kids where instructor’s whose kids were taking part.
    • June 2020 to March 22, 2021 : Elites (Ages 10+) Online Classes Only.
    • Status as of March 22, 2021 : Terminated | Date : March 22, 2021
      • Reason : Refused To Take Students Below 10 yrs inspite of Cleared Open Houses or Trial Classes (& took them anyways outside our institute in our business areas!)
      • Too Many Drop Outs Per Class For Teen Classes and the Elites from June 2020 to March 2021. Harmed the Integrity of Our National Teams.
      • Joins back in 2022 September for Entertainment Projects and other 3rd eye mentorship/judegement with Ms. Hetal only for commercial submissions instead of regular teaching.
      • Special gig projects & online or hybrid workshops.
  • Taylor Hayes (August 2020 to April 2021). More about Ms. Taylor.
    • Successfully delivered all modules/tasks/projects assigned.
  • Ashna Pethe : 2019 to 2022 : In-home graduate of Hetal Nagaraj. Full Internships & Own Team of Bollywood Beginners!
    • Internships ended satisfactorily & teams performed in 2021 August 8th Show- Congratulations!
    • Internships of private classes for indian folk and bollywood hiphop, as needed from 2018 onwards and for teen groups-lewisville, texas.
    • Moved to Elite Teams for Reachh Mediaa And Grace Effects.
    • Successfully delivered all modules/tasks/projects assigned.
  • Nirja Setty : 2019 to 2022 : In-home graduate of Hetal Nagaraj. Full Internships & Own Team of Folk & Bharatanatyam Beginners(with thalam & nattavagam)!
    • Internships ended satisfactorily & teams performed in 2021 August 8th Show- Congratulations!
    • Internships of private classes for indian folk and bollywood hiphop, as needed from 2019 onwards and for teen groups-lewisville, texas.
    • Moved to Elite Teams for Reachh Mediaa And Grace Effects.
    • IT Internships : Success : https://www.hetaln.com/leadership
    • Successfully delivered all modules/tasks/projects assigned.
  • Samarth Setty : 2019 to 2022 : In-home graduate of Hetal Nagaraj. Full Internships & Own Private Class Student for Hiphop, Bharatanatyam-online classes(with thalam & nattavagam), Bollywood-who needed help & Kalaripayattu.
    • Internships ended satisfactorily & teams performed in 2021 August 8th Show – Congratulations!
    • Internships of private classes for indian folk and bollywood hiphop, as needed from 2019 onwards and for teen groups-lewisville, texas.
    • Moved to Elite Teams for Reachh Mediaa And Grace Effects.
    • Successfully delivered all modules/tasks/projects assigned.
  • Anna Vacquez : Moved thus Laid off : Sept 2021 to June 15th 2022 : Not offered work anywhere in any locations or brands. Successful delivery of work assigned.
  • Mina : Moved & Laid off : Sept 2021 to June 15th 2022 : Not offered work anywhere in any locations or brands.
  • Marchawn Franklin : Laid Off : Sept 2021 to June 15th 2022 :
    • Fitness Program failed for reasons unknown (in-spite of giving full controls to run under g2)
    • Success of Hetal Joshi M and Her Leadership.
    • Admin work refined under Hetal Joshi M from booking meetings to calender for Ms. Hetal.
    • IT Internship : Success : https://www.hetaln.com/leadership
    • Never had to baby sit for any other tasks. ALL other tasks full-filled as expected. Successfully delivered all modules/tasks/projects assigned.
  • Jaimin Patel : 2022 June 30 : After hours online replies only as needed. Pseudoname.
  • Saumya Bhardwaj Kaur : Asst. Manager (leadership scholars program for aspiring university students, volunteer-scholar-internship path) for 5 Brands : 1. Mirchi Dance Academy, 2. Texas All Star Talents, 3. Reachh Mediaa Since 2013, 4. Grace Effects, 5. G2 Dance Factory. March 2022-Sept 30 2022. Fired-theft/criminal fraud reported to authorities. About Ms. Saumya and the issues.
  • Vinish Vasam : Sept 30, 2022 to Feb 22, 2023 : More about Vinish.
  • Preethi Cholleti – 2023-2024/current – Can be followed on this link. – Success as of March 2025.
    • Ms. Preeti – successfully launched in Aug 2023 with “on the spot” LIVE workshops, solo performances as well as group team performances as a paid gig and a introducing choreographer.
    • The Reachh Media work was paused due to system backlogs caused by criminal fraud and other deliberate disruptions, as previously mentioned.
    • Ms. Preethi’s classes were successful, achieving full enrollment solely from Ms. Hetal’s existing customer base in DFW (Mckinney areas), without advertisements. Advertisements targeted Allen; however, all inquiries came from McKinney. Ms. Hetal declined to supervise Ms. Preethi’s internship program due to system backlogs and other work commitments requiring her attention. As Ms. Hetal built the entire infrastructure, only she had the expertise to restore its functionality.
    • Consequently, Ms. Preethi’s batch became inoperative. She managed her own batch, including parent and student coordination. Phones and equipment were safely returned to Ms. Hetal, as she declined to travel to McKinney. Notably, the contract does not require Ms. Hetal to provide supervision.
    • Ms. Preethi remains part of group Elite’s submissions, but her association with the company is on hold until the first resumed submission. Per the contract, she is free to work elsewhere as long as she acts discreetly and does not harm company work or clients until March 2025.
    • Ms. Hetal is fully aware of Ms. Preethi’s dance activities, including her collaborations with a local social media artist and performances at parties. While, Ms. Hetal’s group usually performs at such events only when they manage the entire production, including music, dance, MCing, and videography/photography of the party and not just mere entertainment.
    • 2025 March – Ms. Preeti declined two $150 solo performance gigs in schools/ISD in March, totaling $300+ other benefits, within a 10–15 mile drivable distance, both of which a carpool could have been arranged. These opportunities were part of a seeding program and were discussed in detail prior to her decision. Despite previously stating her availability, she ultimately chose to pass on the opportunity. As a result, the contract or mutual understanding is terminated on these grounds, and the company holds no further responsibility. However, Preeti and her team are welcome to apply for vendor services if they wish to! As a friendly note, she will be part of performance teams as others are.
  • Avani Parihar – 2022-2023 – NJHS Scholar Program Paths – 51 hours of successful tasks assigned and completed along with in-person private package trainings. Moved to Prosper so terminated contract.
    • Student/Parents unable to drive that far and Ms. Hetal does not offer programs in Prosper. (Trainings in Bharatanatyam).
    • Certificate not required as student has Ms. Hetal’s signatures signed on all the NJHS hours of school itself. Videoclips coming soon.
  • Anula 2022-current – Ms. Anula is included in Elite’s submissions as a team and her associations with company is on standstill mode/paused/on hold until it resumes as a courtesy.
    • As per contract, she is always free to work for anybody as long as she maintains discreet actions and that she has as none of the company work or clients were either messed or harmed. Successfully delivered 1 batch during the fraud era of Grace and Grooves and 2 gigs. 1 sponsorship received from Ms. Hetal.
    • 2025 – March – Ms. Anula continues to have her associations with the company as in vendor services with her own groups that are external to Grace And Grooves or Ms. Hetal Nagaraj with and without Ms. Hetal’s direction, by genre and category. As a friendly note, she will be part of performance teams as others are.

We Are HIRING : Managers – Who knows legal formalities, on-site issues, studio operation, product management and should be aware of performing arts formalities, for all age groups. Degree not required but will be preferred. 972 979 2559.

Non Staff – External Dancers – By Auditions and from own couples or other workshops or private packages :

  • Krishna Pseudo name – aka Hi**** – Male – Dancer. from own couples package – No Show.
  • Nandika Jay – Female – Own Texas All Star Talent Student – Successfully Delivered.
  • Tani*** and sister (Flowermound)- Dancer Female. from own couples package – Successfully Delivered.

List of occasional dancers / dance  only (no teaching and no other work) :

— We are NOT hiring at this moment —

Our other teams / staff currently under us or our trainings of various fields :

It is really sad that actions of fraud have affected Ms. Preethi and Ms. Anula’s engagements and all the activities at such a massive scale. luckily contracts saved the company!

Our contracts are for our company’s safety and does not bind anybody unless you are a full timer or for special turnkey high budget sensitive projects and those are rare or most often not offered to newbies or first timers or those just stepping in because of experience level or until they master certain technicalities or have ability to take the full load like our Elites do. The contract has an auto expiry as well which allows artists to have complete freedom :). Ethically or morally speaking as well it stands true.

This post is an appreciation to these lovely people for spending their precious time for us. We have received lot of rumors about who works for us or Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj. Our people are very well set in their life with their full time job commitments either with us or with their own college work or other commitments. 

As a friendly note, all our Elites, Pre.Elites will be part of performance teams just as existing students or teams are.

Company Announcement : Feb 10, 2023 : People who have claimed to work with us but never worked with us or never provided us any services!

  • Points to ponder : You can bring business/money/opportunities to business OR
  • you can bring troubles to the business,
  • it is irrespective of what you bring to business!
  • It is still listed & we still have to be liable for each of your actions as our service provider or staff! At the end of the day, who is liable to reply for whatever you bring ?

We trust them because of their contributions to our company and it’s work. Some are fresh grads or housewives or our own fresh grads!

People who have claimed to work with us and never worked. List is here.

We offer part time, temporary work for seniors, stay at home moms, college students who are on legal status or on OPT. The work given to them depends on their specializations! All gadgets are given and all training is provided.

Ms. Hetal is a certified trainer from IIM – Ahmedabad – AMA corporate training program.

About her leadership certifications and achievements, other than performing arts – click here.

About Ms. Hetal – www.hetaln.com

These above candidates have not worked with any other dance company so far that we know of due to our thorough background check or if they have, they have disclosed it to us about their equations. We feel thankful and blessed.

Thank you for all you do and maintaining the transparency!

Certificates and Details.

We do not discriminate for gender/race/ethnicity/country/color and like to respect people who love to work. It is freewill life under Ms. Hetal. We do not ask them where they come from or where they go.

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Website : www.graceandgrooves.com

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/GraceAndGrooves

Twitter : https://twitter.com/GraceAndGrooves

Youtube Channel :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSbZYIr0EPzrfPNzH_0FcVw

Pinterest : https://www.pinterest.com/graceandgrooves

Best Number To Contact : 972 979 2559.

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To All Our International Artist Prospects

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***2021 & Onwards – Sponsorships are open for only those individuals that have with more than 6 FIELDS specialities with degrees/certificates and full transparent background, charges apply*** :

We will need the following if you would like us to sponsor you or even if we send invite then also we need these papers and details to apply for visa. Each country has different criteria and eligibility for artist. (Visa sponsorship is open from 2021). It is absolutely required.

  • Copy of your eligibility such as certificates, website or you-tube links, resumes with pictures, videos and such credentials. Your past or current workshop or practice video clips per artist as required for total number of people if there are more than 1 person in group.
  • Your experience details and such in the field.
  • Copy of passports, legal status in your country, local addresses of your sponsored company if you come with that, local addresses of your residence or office if you have one.
  • Picture id as per passport as stated on the immigration website.
  • More about international artist requirements : https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/o-1-visa-individuals-extraordinary-ability-or-achievement
  • Please contact 972 979 2559 for all the details. Timeline and planning from start to finish to prepare for all visa or documents is anywhere from a year to 6months and depending on when you get appointment at your regional office for visa.
  • We encourage you get your own visa and get a legal residency or travel to USA.

Direct hires are the people :

  • Who are residents OR
  • regular guests at our institutes OR
  • visiting faculties at universities here OR
  • our own teachers OR
  • they have been to several countries and have dealt with NRI(s).
  • OR they can stay here if there is a need that may arise for our year round curriculum or for minimum 6months

*** For all Volunteer work as well, legal status documents submission is required***

  • We don’t hire volunteer or in-fact for anything (without stamped visa or legal document / proof of legal residency). We have never sponsored visa as well. At this point, we don’t want to either.
  • Candidates that do not provide renewal dates & copies of their residency permits or new visa documents or passport or driving license are removed with a 15 days of notice until they produce the letter of renewal application.
  • we work w/registered isd programs/commercial projects with security paper work and waivers/private/charter/university programs and so we cannot have anybody that does not have legal status.
  • We usually hire ppl that are legal residents of USA or some are our own(Ms. Hetal’s own) university or own classmates working remote (in India or any other country) and thus visa is not required.
  • Ppl that were hired on job-sites for G2 Dance Factory were requested to submit their ssn or passport with stamped visa/DL or any such legal status document. (as the first requirement to consider for an interview).
  • International artists usually contact us with their own legal work status (with a free will eligibility) to work for anybody independently. All programs of Texas All Star Talents are on hold until further notice. 

Are you somebody who fits in that criteria ? DM us.

Terms & conditions will be based on activities and their frequency / occurrences. We have lot of opportunities for our fully trained locals with absolutely straight background so that we can share it with you all.

You can reach Hetal at : www.hetaln.com

Hetal Nagaraj has worked as immigration development field officer (in India) for more than 5 years for all types of visas for a private firm and immigration lawyers. Speciality – training for english dialects, legal protocols, family & student visas, establishment(housing/placements) and university match. Linkedin has entire info of it.(hetaljoshim)

All or any of the criteria is required!

The only volunteer that was offered a work visa sponsorship (till date as of 2023) was Deepthi Chandrasekaran provided that ms. Deepthi works for min 40hours aka full timer. Ms. Deepthi is (now) Grad of Texas All Star Program. Ms. Deepthi has always been legal resident of USA.  Staff list. 

Hetal Nagaraj will be very happy to have anybody onboard and do shows or workshops for us and anybody who may be interested as long as full paperwork is submitted by any mode. Grace And Grooves is fully registered company and type of clients that we work with, we cannot have any other hires for any thing!

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Anantha Dance Production Series

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Anantha Dance Production Series…………..

Anantha-1, a dance production series showcasing beauty, elegance, creativity, as well as infinite possibilities of Bharatnatyam, Indian Folk Dances, Rabindra Nruthya, Manipuri And Kathak. All of this without forsaking fundamentals.

ananthaflyer2019Idea of Anantha was implanted in 2018 January when we had faced some challenges that opened doors to other possibilities. 

First announcements were made to public in various medias from Nov 2, 2018 and onwards. Every year it just happens that as Grace And Grooves LLC plan their annual programs/recitals and they come out so beautiful that it ends up in dance productions with and without dance-musical dramas.

But the idea of dance recital was not enough for Bharatnatyam and Indian Folk Students after getting ready for 30-45 mins with all that make-up and costume. These students were to be taught the possibilities within the dance form and show it off separately. So, Anantha Production Series it was!

With straight background comes unlimited (Anantha) creativity. Thus, the name of “Anantha” was given to this dance production series with each dance showcasing unlimited possibilities in each dance forms. The name and concept is inspired from several dance production houses or dance institutes like that of her mom, own teachers, formal gurus, dance exponents such as Daksha V Joshi, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Daksha M Joshi, Tanjore Brothers Original Margam, Kalakshetra Foundation, Natyavihar Kalakendra. This intense training of over 34 years has given a shape to Hetal’s own dance creations within exclusive Indian Dance Forms such as Bharatanatyam and Indian Folk Dances. Some dances have also received exclusive copyright permissions to republish under the name of Hetal Nagaraj and some have received competition awards early this year and years before as well. 

Anantha opened its door with Anantha-1 in 2019 to begin with on Jan 27, 2019 at Plano Courtyard Theater, Plano, Texas, USA from 330 PM to 730 PM and was a houseful event. The event was an introduction event to her elite students such as Ashna Pethe and The Setty Siblings who are in advance trainings from years now and Rinku Das-a budding artist of Dallas-Forth, Texas. These students roughly danced for more than 2 hours. In Anantha, their intern choreographers, performing teams got every opportunity to be creative under the supervision, direction of Hetal Nagaraj and yet feel challenged without forsaking fundamentals of each dance form. All of it with full safety on practicing it in the right way. It is not about perfection, it is about doing it right.

Hetal Nagaraj is artistic director of Grace And Grooves LLC.  This is her 4th dance program in a row showcasing A Grade Indian Dance Productions with each dance as a reflection of her experiences, trainings and now the degrees. It has been peculiarity of Hetal that her dances include Nritta, Natya and Nruthya as its basic components with balance of Tandav and Lasyam. Each dance of her has a name to define with its subject in the dance along with dance themes that are full of life, happiness, thankfulness, blessings and above all beautiful costumes that she herself designs. But, Anantha-1 is Hetal Nagaraj’s VERY FIRST exclusive dance production for Indian Dance Forms and A Tribute to Rabindranath Tagore Famous Literature and Poems which as a matter of fact matched to our production name. All the students had so much fun learning and practicing for Anantha-1 during their regular class hours itself and no additional class is required. It is not like you pay, you get to be part of it, and be done with it. It is what they have learned, they’ll showcase. 

No outside students were allowed to perform or take trainings or as part of freelance dancers. Even the guest artists are/were students of Grace And Grooves LLC enrolled in their exclusive programs. Anantha Dance Production Series is about Grace And Grooves LLC students and their team only. Hetal Nagaraj selects them for this dance production and not everybody is able to make it to her list.

We will always had a special guests like this time we had Rinku Das who will do their own dances and stick to our themes or request with their team or solo but they are our special guests.

From students who wanted the thrill got it covered along with students who wanted the fun of natyam alone still staying in their respective dance forms.

Who said dance forms are boring..Not at Grace And Grooves!

Congratulations to Students Samarth Setty(Age 11) and Tejawini(Adults) for completing their entire Bharatanatyam Margam in Anantha-1 by performing under the strict supervision, instruction and guidance of Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj. This was made possible by dancing back to back for straight 3 hours from Pushpanjali, Allaripu, Jatiswaram, Thillana, Group-Shabdam, Creative Bharatanatyam, Copyright Bharatanatyam Dance Pieces, and Rabindra Nruthya as well. This also means, that it can be very much called their own arangetram, if they choose not to do it as solo arangetrams, separately. 

This is Hetal Nagaraj’s 2nd round of completion of full margam from start to finish by teaching it to various students. At Grace And Grooves, we aim to make sure you understand everything you see while we are just doing our job. 

Every beautiful thing under this sky has a name and so do the dances. 

From the thrill of nritta, beauty as in lasyam, fun of natyam, devotion as in bhakti and tapasya as in training, power as in shakti of tandav and possibilities as in Anantha- the infinite and we are still in same dance form when we do it right!

Anantha-1 Dance Production was made possible by Dhamaal Events in association with Grace Effects ( Gopal S and Dinesh Kumar for photography and videography services).

Big Shout Out To These Young Teenagers who had their paid student assignments at Anantha-1. Aditya Sangole as our Sound Technician and Emcee Yashika Nabar for our Dance Production Anantha-1.

Anantha-2 Dance Production is next scheduled in March 2020.

Dates & Times Will Be Announced Shortly.

Call NOW because time and tides wait for none…. 972 979 2559.

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Why Seperate Names For Each Programs?

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

That why Seperate Names For Each Programs?

We thought we will pen it, finally!

Bharatnatyam Dances:

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

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

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

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

Here, check our Signature Bharatnatyam Program

Indian Folk Dances:

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

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

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

Here, check our Signature Indian Folk Dance Program.

We are proud of what is not in these dances 🙂

Bollywood Dances :

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

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

Here, check our Signature Bollywood/Tollywood Dance Program.

Grace Creations :

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

Whoever dives in it will have to do the trainings.

Why ?

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

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

Biggest advantage of separate brand name on each activity is billing, contracts as well as advertisement followup becomes easy / traceable on expenses and accounts. This includes standard laws that are applicable directly without any contract!

Because money is business, business is money, passion is business too and so is fundraiser! This helps in clarity of each activity, genre and style as well as category.

List of our activities we do by genre, style and category – https://wp.me/p7EbkV-42u

Here, check our Signature Grace Creations Program.

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

Still wondering why ????

Join these programs for just 1 year at

Grace And Grooves

And you will have your answers. 

Call NOW : 972 979 2559.

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

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Rinku Bharttarcharya Das

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Rinku Bhattarcharya Das

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

She broadened her understanding of indian  classical dance forms by receiving rigorous  training in Manipuri Dance from  Guru Bipin Singh,Kalavati Devi and Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri. She was introduced to the world of contemporary dance by renowned Manipuri and Contemporary Dance artiste Sri Sanjib Bhattacharya .  As a solo and a performing artiste in both  classical and contemporary art forms she has performed in various prestigious dance programmes and festivals of India and USA. She is currently the Director of Nrityajyotidance Academy, North Carolina, USA which is devoted to the dissemination, training and promotion of the classical as well as contemporary performing arts based on Guru Shishya tradition and helps in promoting  them  internationally. rinkumani2

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

Some of her Major Performances in India and abroad:

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

Her Gurus

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

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

Smt Mallika Bhattacharya and Guru LaxmiNarayanji (To be uploaded)

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

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Hetal Nagaraj.

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About Hetal Nagaraj

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Specializations:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Awards / Titles in Indian Dance Competitions | Grace And Grooves Group By Hetal Nagaraj :

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ALL Competitions are :

  • Non-Voting, Judges w/degrees or extremely high credentials in performing arts or with transparent background with full traceability for their teachers too.
  • We do not sponsor any of these events or competitions if our students are competing. 
  • We do not prepare for competitions. It is other way round.
  • Most/all of these are shown in promos/timelines as we always post as that years or quaters win or depends as it may occur. Pics of these winners are updated – https://www.hetaln.com/awards-competitions
  • How We Choose Competitions and Competitions we go to: READ HERE

ALL Choreo, Class Teacher, Techniques, Completion, Costumes, Makeup, Accessories as well as Competition Requirements unless otherwise mentioned : Hetal Nagaraj.

Yes, Ms. Hetal teaches personally on an average of 35 to 70 students per genre/production of diff levels and age groups on per year. Thus, a huge list of graduates & thus the wins too under hetalnagaraj exclusively and her name is everywhere because of this dominance/demand. 

Awards & Titles In the following –

  • Indian Dance Competitions for all the Indian Dances.
  • Non-Indian Competitions for all Hiphop and Contemporary or such fusion genres.

You might see more of Indian Folk Dances competitions until 2015-2016. This is because we were an exclusive Indian Folk Dance Company under hetalnagaraj or grace and grooves name until 2015.

  • Nruthyakala Folk Dance Academy was a personal collab of Hetal Nagaraj & was also during 2013-2014-2015.
  • Mirchi Dance Academy collab was also a personal partnership of Hetal Nagaraj in 2014-2015 and thus bollywood was incorporated in Grace And Grooves Group of Companies as an entire seperate activity.
  • These both were/are personal friends/classmates of dance + IIT/IIM tribe of Hetal Nagaraj as well. All Boys moms!

Prior to that, most of our programs were Indian Folk Dances or couples/ or group private packages for performances.

1. *Best Fundraiser(19-23years)-1999,2000,2001-Folk Dance Competition:Garba,Raas/Dandiya,Lavani(India)
2. *Best Theme & Choreography(19-23years-2002,2003)IndianFolk Dance Competition: Ghoomar of Rajasthan,Tera talli(India)
3. Best Choreography Folk(AgeGroup23-30years)-2004(US-Michigan-Indian Dance Competition): Kalbelia
4. First Place Talent/Fundraiser(AgeGroup 20-30)2006.Indian Dance Competition-SemiClassical Bharatnatyam,Kansas-USA
5. *Participation Awards Folk(2011-Gidda/Bhangra), Semi-Classical/Fusion(2012)Age 5-10years+Best Dress Awards in both(Indian Dance Competition,Irving)
*Cash Prizes(India)/Gift Cards(USA) in all years + 1 Award for consecutive wins.

May 1, 2011 & Onwards(Indian Dance Competitions)

1. First Place:Ages 4-6 Age.Group,Indian Folk Dance – Tera Talli(Public Event-Indian Folk Dance Competition]

2. Second Place:Folk-Fusion(5-7years)Group- Bhangra, Bollywood, Tap[School Competitions)

3. First Place:Fusion-Bollywood Style Bharatnatyam(Solo),Age 6.Fusion Indian Dance Competition

4. Second Place:Youth “Classical Fusion.Age 15-20.Bharatnatyam, Bihu, Kumari – Dance Competition,Fusion-Irving

5. First Place:Best Dress,Culture Festival- Garba/Dandiya[Represented India-Talent Show-Irving]

6. First Place:Best Dress,Best Folk Choreography,Solo/Age8-Ghoomar of Rajasthan, Chirmi [Indian Dance Competition-Dallas)

7. First Place:Tap/Indian Classical Dance-Group[Age8)School-Talent Competition-Indo American-Coppell]

8. Fourth Place Fusion,Age7.Solo.Garba/Dandiya-Raas[Invited Only-Private Event-Competition) – upto 5 places awards were titled for some evaluation purposes.

9. Third Place Group(Ages 4-6) Garba[Charity Event-Indian Dance Competition, Plano-Texas]

10.Second Place(Below 13 Yrs)Solo.9 Years-Ghoomar/Ghummar of Rajasthan at Indian Dance Competition:Plano-Texas]

11.Third Place(Below 13 Years)Solo.7 Years-Lavani, Indian Dance Competition,Plano-Texas.

12.First Place(Below 12 Years)Solo.8 Years-Garba-Dandiya/Raas, Plano-Texas.

13.Third Place(Grade6-10)Solo 11 Years-Smt.Rama Vaidyanathan’s Thillana Bharatnatyam(Classical-Artwork, Bharatnatyam Student), Indian Dance Competition, Plano-Texas

14.First Place(Grade6-10)Solo 13 Years-Bollywood Fusion(Non.Classical). Indian Folk Dance, Contemporary, Bharatnatyam on Bollywood/Tollywood Song. Student trained in Indian Folk Dance, Contemporary, and Professional Bharatnatyam as seperate programs. Indian Dance Competition, Plano-Texas

15.Third Place(Grade 1-5)Solo.10 Years-Pushpanjali. Bharatnatyam Choreography Work : Hetal Nagaraj. Indian Dance Competition, Carrollton-Texas. Our Bharatnatyam Student from 2014.

16.First Place (Grade6-10), Solo 13 Years-Bollywood Fusion(Non.Classical). Indian Folk Dance, Contemporary, Bharatnatyam on Bollywood/Tollywood Song. Student trained in Indian Folk Dance, Contemporary, Bollywood and 2 styles of Bharatnatyam from Grace And Grooves LLC and other dance school. Indian Dance Competition, Carrollton-Texas.

17. Second Place, Solo. 10-11 years-Bharatanatyam. Click Here, Part 2 of dance won (Samarth Setty, direct invite from our own published YouTube video of Part 1. Part 2 Finals Won). Choreographer:Hetal Nagaraj(Part-1). Student is a Bharatanatyam Student from Grace And Grooves LLC. Indian Dance Competition, Carrollton-Texas. Choreography/Choreographer Hetal Nagaraj, Part 2.

18. 1st place Bharatnatyam Ages 9-12 : Dhiya Sudhini : Intern-Class Teacher : Nirja Setty | Supervisor : Hetal Nagaraj.

19. 2nd place Bharatnatyam Ages 5-9 : Audrey Martin . Class Teacher : Hetal Nagaraj | Costume : Audrey with direction from Hetal Nagaraj.

20. 3rd place Bharatanatyam Ages 5-9 : Uma Shah (- Internship – All practices Puja Natesan). Good Job! choreography, techniques, direction, competition edits requirements : Hetal Nagaraj. Dance of Sarva 2019 | Class Teacher : Hetal Nagaraj.

21. 1st place Ages 9 – 12 | Category : Non-Classical | Dance : Bollywood & Fusion (Folk+Hiphop & Festival-Party Dances)|Dancer : Sanvi L Sharma (Mckinney) | Class Teacher : Sannthosh | Supervisor, Techniques, Direction & Completion of entire dance due to time limit and ALL Practices : Hetal Nagaraj. 

22. 2nd place Ages 9 – 12 | Category : Non-Classical | Dance : Fusion Kalaripayattu & Contemporary | Class Teacher : Hetal Nagaraj. Dancer : Aahana Marella | Costumes : Aahana with direction from Hetal Nagaraj.

Our Heartist Congratulations for International Awards : 2020-2021 :

International Awards | Other than Competitions | Non-Competition Awards | Culture Awards | Achivement Awards :

2020 March : Media Culture Awards – for Gujarat Culture/heritage by Hello Gujarat Group, Ahmedabad Gujarat, India.

23. Hetal Nagaraj,

24. Ashna Pethe,

25. Nirja Setty,

26. Samarth Setty

Above Team members bagged 4 International Awards in their contributions to Indian Dances for the State of Gujarat. This time for the Awards of “Hello Gujarat” from 10:15 time stamp onwards.

Their screening for these awards wer in early 2020 for which they were handpicked by media looking to their non-stop contributions in Indian Folk Dances, Bharatanatyam, Bollywood, Fusion and off-late Hiphop(In Gujarati). This is Hetal Nagaraj’s 2nd International Award. These students and teachers were picked by media from their performances, competitions as well as fundraisers with respect to Gujarat & it’s culture in some of LIVE events. Several other newspapers and medias shared their contributions and highlighted them. Clips are posted.

2021 April : Student Achievers’ Award by Rhythm Group, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

27. Nirja Setty

28. Samarth Setty

29. Aahana

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30. 2019-2020 : Congratulations to Nirja Setty & Ashna Pethe for being selected again for other competition in first round and also for nominations for awards/interviews. Song : Nimbooda Duet : Bollywood Category. Same Dance.

31. 2021 : International Womens’ Award : Hetal Nagaraj : For Contributions in Performing Arts and Non-Performing Arts. Media Group : Hello Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

32. 2021 June : Hetal Nagaraj awarded as Inspiring entrepreneur in the IMPACT edition of India Today and was featured in India Today. See her news in India Today and her list of accomplishments.

33. List continues on with some pics and clips of winners – https://www.hetaln.com/awards-competitions

Total Awards & Titles of Hetal Joshi M, Hetal Nagaraj – TBD (in process)

How We Choose Competitions and Competitions we go to: READ HERE

Voting/Reality Competitions –For Pre.Elites/Elites Only.We strongly do not believe that you need people’s votes/or dirty politics to win the competition or an award. Your dance has or should have more value than all of that.

  • For any Reality Competitions or Gigs, we do not allow below 13 yrs, irrespective of your Pre.Elite/Elite Status unless you are an exception like www.thesettys.com.(these kids had a direct commercial walk in gigs from the age of 8 months old and 3 year old through their own parents or agencies & were established by the time they were 5-8 years old or by the time they enrolled for the program for other trainings).

Fusions – For Trained Pre.Elites/Elites Only. Our trainings have given us so much that we are never run out on creativity within the dance forms. Fusions  are our signature creations from year 2000 due to Hetal Nagaraj’s own professional trainings in several genres which Hetal took to keep up to industry demands in educational as well as commercial field such as workshops, trainings for gigs and performances most of which was trend. Such as Ms.Hetal Nagaraj’s Kathak choreography trainings.

Competitions or submissions for awards are NOT compulsory but it always adds an extremely high benefit to students that compete in these programs as these are curriculam & by level with required elements per level, at times precise skill list is also provided. 

    • This exposure provides a great sense of stage etiquette, sportsmanship, confidence, critics and how to handle and mutual respect within several specialities. Unlike reels, dancing LIVE before the audience boosts confidence!
    • As we are a dance school, those updates of these programs/competitions/awards are often send to parents and teacher/student/parent might choose to participate.
    • It depends on requirements of these programs or competitions or eligibility criteria. Trainings are for techniques. Techniques include everything(creativity is technique too).

Not all students compete for all types of awards or competitions or publishing awards by eligibility. Most reasons are :

    1. submission process is extremely precise (strictly by age and so several are very young to apply or do not meet the cut off dates).
    2. Eligibility criteria is strictly by skill level and so several students may not qualify if students have missed few classes or the preparation time is much less than needed in most cases.
      1. Suddenly “to master a skill” for a competition is extremely challenging (mentally and physically) as compared to mastering a choreography or adjusting a particular dance by time limit and so we recommend that you do not compete.
    3. formalities/forms/coordination/waivers and 100% transparency. These formalities require 2-3 hours to submit just 1 entry/participant and thus there are fees associated with everything (and there are program/competition/participant fees and then costumes and several other fees).
    4. Multiple round entries. Most Teens often apply for multiple rounds as “physically”, it is easier for them to perform multiple rounds and obviously are trained.
    5. The dates of competition or submission doesn’t match the availability of either teacher or student or parent/responsible adult supervised parent or caregiver.
    6. Student/Teacher/Parents are not mentally ready or somethings do not align.
    7. The date conflicts with exam dates or family vacations (since most are scheduled w/booked tickets). Competition dates are either scheduled by org earlier than 3months or are usually 2-3months prior. Depends.
    8. Occassionally, family emergencies such as sudden death, sudden sickness of participant or parent responsible for adult supervision of participant, sudden travel of supervised parent or a very good deal for international vacation for whole family.
    9. and thus a student usually prefer to perform in our in-house or our own programs/shows until it alligns. All with full trainings under hetalnagaraj and are extremely beautiful/graceful dancers. 
    10. All our dancers will showcase techniques and all the attributes of performing arts because of our training. You can see all our students in all our in-house shows taking lead thus earning Pre.Elites and Elites Status! One such latest example is Aayan.

Post updated : Oct 1, 2019 with links, Video & more info added – May 12, 14 2020 | Jan 30, 2021 | Feb 2, 2021 | March 9, 2021 | May 28, 2021 | June 21, 2021 | Dec 17, 2023.

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