Indian Folk Dances Program by Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

Indian Folk Dances Program by Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

Indian Folk Dance Program Includes:

  • About Hetal Joshi Nagaraj Speciality.
  • All Styles of Each Indian Folk Dance, Natya Shashtra & Abhinaya, Dance Dramas in Indian Folk Dances.
  • Full Theory from all the right sources. Youtube is Never Our Source 🙂
  • Copyrighted Choreography Dances of Renowned Artists.
  • Signature Real, Authentic & Creative Indian Folk Dances from 33+ years of trainings of Hetal Nagaraj will be taught as an exclusive. Fusion Indian Folk Dances are part of program. (No Bollywood!).
  • Also, inlcudes signature Master Indian Folk Dances of Dancers and institutes from Darpana Academy of Performing Arts (Ahmedabad) to Shantiniketan(West Bengal-India) are all taught and included.
  • For All General Policies and Guidelines : Click Here.

Levels –

  1. Pre Elementary
  2. Elementary – Beginner 
  3. Beginner to Intermediate 
  4. Intermediate
  5. Intermediate to Advance
  6. Advance to Graduate
  7. Advance
  8. Graduate
  9. Graduate to Elites
  10. Teams of Company – Teams of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj
  11. Elites – Teams of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj, Teams of Grace And Grooves Corp
  12. Elite Lines – Teams of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj | Elite Lines – Teams of Grace And Grooves Corp.

​Link on Grace And Grooves Website – https://www.graceandgrooves.com/indian-folk-dances

For any level, audition, trial class or an instructor evaluation is required.​ Music knowhow is part of curriculam.

All Students are always encouraged for any programs other than company participations.

Annual Recitals are compulsory.

Other Related Link –

  1. Levels
  2. Seasons
  3. Elites Name List
  4. Elite Lines
  5. About Hetal Joshi Nagaraj Speciality.

— 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

Bharatanatyam at Grace And Grooves under Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.

Bharatanatyam at Grace And Grooves under Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.

Bharatnatyam Training under Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.

  • For All General Policies and Guidelines : Click Here.
    Background – Instruction rooted in the Kalakshetra tradition, with comparative learning and educational exposure to the Pandanallur and Tanjore traditions, helping students appreciate the stylistic diversity and historical evolution of Bharatanatyam. More about Ms. Hetal’s Speciality.
  • Historical understanding of Sadir, the predecessor of modern Bharatanatyam, and its influence on today’s classical repertoire.
  • Adavus (foundational movement vocabulary).
  • Abhinaya (expressive storytelling).
  • Nritta (pure dance technique).
  • Natya (dramatic expression and character portrayal).
  • Nritya (dance with techniques and expressions)
  • Rhythm, musicality, and performance training.
  • Introduction to the Natya Shastra and classical performance principles.
  • Jatis, Nattuvangam recitation, and foundational Sanskrit shlokas appropriate to each level.
  • Performance etiquette, stage discipline, and presentation skills.
  • Annual recitals, dance productions, lecture-demonstrations, and cultural performances based on student readiness.

Packages are also offered for various tenure of 5 to 7 Years for students who would like to plan completion of their course.

It is expected that student make every effort to stick to schedule and complete their classes on time without falling behind in the levels.

Levels –

  1. Pre Elementary
  2. Elementary – Beginner 
  3. Beginner to Intermediate 
  4. Intermediate
  5. Intermediate to Advance
  6. Advance to Graduate
  7. Advance
  8. Graduate
  9. Graduate to Elites
  10. Teams of Company – Teams of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj
  11. Elites – Teams of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj, Teams of Grace And Grooves Corp
  12. Elite Lines – Teams of Hetal Joshi Nagaraj | Elite Lines – Teams of Grace And Grooves Corp.

​For any level, audition, trial class or an instructor evaluation is required.​ Thalam Nattavangam is part of curriculam.

​All Students are always encouraged for any programs other than company participations.

​Annual Recitals are compulsory.

Links on Grace And Grooves Site – https://www.graceandgrooves.com/bharatnatyam

Other Related Link –

  1. Levels
  2. Seasons
  3. Elites Name List
  4. Elite Lines
  5. About Hetal Joshi Nagaraj Speciality.

— 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

Why are certain Elites are not Movie Stars after years of trainings?

Why are certain Elites are not Movie Stars or Super Rich after years of trainings?

  1. The VERY FIRST Priority – Education as most asian and indian parents have!
    • Some are in medical field, some in dual education specialities.
  2. Parents chose not to – too early in life to take industrial ride.
  3. Smaller gigs with big or major production names as compared to huge contracts thus doable within the school days – after school or weekend days.
  4. Smaller gigs or one day gig are easy to handle with no lingering stress to do more.
  5. 99% of these individuals prefer that Ms. Hetal take the whole project itself for all – so that all the indecent code of conduct or any illegal activities can be filtered through Ms. Hetal’s expertise.
  6. Ms. Hetal bags these or creates these in affiliations with several production companies in mainstream —- big and small in all sizes for all age groups and everything runs by date.
    • As a multi generational NRI, Ms. Hetal is extremely vigilant about laws and permissible activities within limitations of certain policies of industry and fields – especially the ones pertaining to kids, minors and young individuals.
    • These areas of fields cannot be kept hidden and even if Ms. Hetal does not show on her site, the organizer will someday – show it. Inevitable!
  7. With this global generational IQ, Ms. Hetal is able to arrange just about anything in any country if there is proper date, schedule and visa permisibility.
  8. Priorities of personal life, family limitations, culture limitations and some upfront fees limitations as some projects do require little investment because, this industry is fast pace field.
  9. Discipline in schedules so that other life priorities can be handled, education, marriage life/family and mainstream work life is always part of it.
  10. Strict waivers to avoid theft and ensure security of personal details thus all sign under Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.
  11. Ms. Hetal’s own kids are part of this so Ms. Hetal makes sure that there is no foul play or illegal activities, code of conduct of any type in any area.
    • As a convent upbringing, Ms. Hetal has learned to be in those environments to offer such a discipline and transparency.
  12. Adults are always required around minors and Ms. Hetal does not allow any child or minor to be left alone without supervision.
  13. Cameras are in every possible place of Ms. Hetal’s any program except for the restroom. Gender specific restroom is usually provided at every venue. This goes for green rooms too.
  14. Certain age groups or levels are “never” together and do not even share one show!
    • Ms. Hetal is known for multiple shows too within 1 day in entirely seperate hours.
  15. And, it offers stability – constant income.

At Grace And Grooves Corp —- Be careful when you point a finger at any teen, Elite or infact any parent or student. This includes on any task assigned.

Dance on one location, one backdrop or similar lighting or clothing as well may not be at the same time.

As a dance production company, we do lot of gimmicks on looks, hair colors, hair sizes too(wigs) and makeup tactics that makes the individual look entirely different. While some prefer not to do full makeup or change of hair as those are flexible.

This is reason why despite big names of production houses, some producers who commercially call Ms. Hetal and her groups often have smaller commitments with dates instead of whole season. Some are seeding so these keep leveling up in different areas and at the pace of availability and thus payouts vary by the project.

These are not like non stop every other day projects that you would expect Elites to be some movie stars :). yeah, if they were available in that routine “leaving” their education then they can be movie stars.

Thus the payouts are limited to gigs, availability and pre-scheduled activities.

Company’s Elites rather prefer to be low key in these areas which is usually parents decision.

This is until the completion of their education degree than to be called as industrial artist to get on ride of full mode industrial levels. Most of these are to gain experience and earn some side hustle money and if something later draws a path to industry of their choice and availability.

And this they can later too, take on bigger scale as some did during G2. G2 mess.

It all depends on project and how much can it be controlled based on schedules and dates.

Some rolled by Ms. Hetal, some bagged through production houses, some bidding, some seeding, some self-generated projects that receives sponsors and producers, some received from various producers, clients to name a few.

Just like every field, this field too is controlled by availability. Every field has money if you know how to dig it.

Just an example of an artist or a dancer who may be available every other day with basic payouts of 150-200$ would just get them average of 3750$ per month. This is just the 1st level and this is their earnings. Not Ms. Hetal’s.

Price of one semester in university is ? :).

This itself says it. THINK! #YES

No Money is ever small. 1 cent will make the 99cents you have as 1$. Price of icloud basic plan is 0.99 cents – 8,000 photos averaging 3 MB each = 24 GB and 1 hour of 4K video (~20 GB). Total – 44 GB, leaving about 6 GB free. One can launch a business with this 44GB of just plain data!

Value of money.

The settys would often be available on several instances because of their schedules and schooling for these gigs, other than Ms. Hetal’s own kids thus, could be investors of G2 as a money investors.

Participation in the company program as a student to learn skills and to build your portfolio is not considered as investment :). After certain level such as Elite Lines, it becomes one as that’s when you bring money or clients to business!

Company arranges for everything is based on company’s operations :). Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj takes the load of upfront costs and all the permissible operations so that her students can sail through it.

Something just as you would to university or a placement agency, university imparts you trainings and skills and one has to pay to university and all the extra infra that you have to abide by.

All this sits on Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj’s own money and earnings too (former salon specialist, and few others – check this).

Not on students’ anything :). Students and interns programs itself entered much late in life 2011-2013 when the company was accepting “outside students” other than friends and family. #Right.

Reachh Mediaa Programs are differently accounted for as a PR just as you would sign up for university programs, just a little real world than the bookish. Placement do not even begin until certain age because—that’s the federal law unless there is somebody who had begin very early in life with a full industrial PR – we have those too. www.thesettys.com. There is a reason why they came to Ms. Hetal. #YES

This should not be confused with music videos that youtube or online streaming companies make, or such collabs or reel worlds. Those are entire different media platforms. As a company, we have not even begin these.

Here you go – Ms. Hetal showed you money, career, value of money, value of time, knowledge, skills, growth, respect and love without compromising your education in the field of mainstream performing arts 🙂. Oh and the scholarships, if you follow through all Ms. Hetal says.

Related Links, one must read –

  1. Levels
  2. Seasons
  3. Elite Lines
  4. Official Brand List.

Texas all star talents will remain paused until full money is recovered from fraudsters.

About movies and all – Ms. Hetal just received trademark for those services and several other activities are underway.

— 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

Indian Specialities – Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

Indian Specialities – Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

Listed are Specialities only

Full trainings, performances, competitions, stage, infusion to education and industry overall, dancers well being and lifelong personality carved through trainings.

Ms Hetal has graduates, Elites in each and some have received full scholarships in performing arts other than the 8 students who were in other fields.

Ms Hetal’s background ( hetaln.com ) is often infused in these trainings through various programs so students benefit for their education system as well, in more than 6 fields of speciality.

All programs at Grace and Grooves have dancers well being. That’s why Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj’s name is everywhere :). Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj is in the class either for instruction or for supervision with a thorough lesson plan.

Ms. Hetal has graduates, elites in all of below specialities as well as programs that company offers in every pathway! Ms. Hetal dances in all genres of her specialities and often! Depends on type of program.

Indian Classical – Learned through own mother (family influences) and through formal institute under guru shishya parampara.

  1. Sadir – Bharatanatyam prior to all styles thus can easily separate every style. – Speciality
  2. Bharatanatyam- Kalakshetra – Speciality
  3. Bharatanatyam Pandanallur – Speciality
  4. Bharatanatyam Tanjore –
    • Prominent in environment so well aware of it and most friends dance tanjore.
  5. Kalaripayattu – Intermediate to Advance – Speciality
    • Demonstrations – Learned through school in high school. Advance-combat pending.
  6. Chhau – Mayurbhanj – Intermediate.
    • Advance-combat pending.
  7. Chhau Purulia – Dramas – Speciality.
    • Demonstration – Mixed Martial Arts – Combat and Strategy Warfare – Speciality.
      learned through school in high school.

***Ms. Hetal did Dissertation 1 in her MFA education masters degree for comparative lecture, demonstration for styles of Bharatanatyam. Dissertation 2 was about comparative overview of classical dances and fitness.

Bollywood-Cinematic Stage Dances – Learned through cousins working as choreographers in Bollywood-Tollywood. Mastered in DFW, Texas through training.

  1. Bollywood stage trainings. – Speciality
  2. Cinematic trainings that work in real life scenarios. – Speciality
  3. Acting, Voice Modulation, Stage Presence, LIVE drama trainings. – Speciality
  4. Fashion, Personality, and Stage craft. – Speciality
  5. Cinematography, Photography for industry and Videography – Speciality

Indian Folk Dances – Learned through formal institute trainings under guru shishya parampara and learned in education school as elective year by year, level by level.

  1. Andhra Pradesh – Speciality
  2. Arunachal Pradesh
  3. Assam – Speciality
  4. Bihar
  5. Chhattisgarh
  6. Goa – Speciality
  7. Gujarat – Speciality
  8. Haryana
  9. Himachal Pradesh
  10. Jharkhand
  11. Karnataka – Speciality
  12. Kerala – Speciality
  13. Madhya Pradesh – Speciality
  14. Maharashtra – Speciality
  15. Manipur
  16. Meghalaya
  17. Mizoram
  18. Nagaland
  19. Odisha – Speciality
  20. Punjab – Speciality
  21. Rajasthan – Speciality
  22. Sikkim
  23. Tamil Nadu – Speciality
  24. Telangana – Speciality
  25. Tripura
  26. Uttar Pradesh – Speciality
  27. Uttarakhand
  28. West Bengal – Speciality
  29. Tribal Dances of India – Level by Level.

Be careful when you say you danced in Bollywood and Tollywood behind movie-stars. Ms. Hetal’s cousins, friends’ wives are in various industries in choreography, make up and cinematography worlds.

Relative posts –

1. Levels under Ms Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

2. Non Indian Performing Arts

3. Elite Lines List

4. Elite Lines are

— 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

Choreography Workshops – Reachh Meddia

Choreography Workshops – Reachh Mediaa.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀?

We are a training-focused school where lasting technique, strong fundamentals, and the right learning environment matter most. We are about training the body!

Our emphasis is on evergreen skills and structured training rather than trend-driven choreography.

Choreography that has level and its evergreen to a point of non stop wins throughout decades.

Be it competitions, recreation or be it personality that is carved through performances.

The vibe, class and the level is by techniques that brings grace, elegance, beauty, charm, personality, certain aura too and all the beautiful work that wins for more than 3 decades!

A perfect example, our choreography are trendy and lasts for decades. Fun that lasts for decades and students graduate to levels above graduation 😀.

By all means, our work can be used for education too!

Just one of the factors not because it is needed but only because there are dangers to onset of early life in cinema or television industry unless of-course one is born within industry to know the pressures.

Our this training makes it a need!

A good dancer, a good body or personality, beauty with really good feature and how they carry themselves, actor, villain, director is always remembered and is evergreen too!

Ever wondered why not so good dancer or not so good actor, not so good villain, not so good director rarely makes cut in industry too.

Acting too requires whole level of stage presence.

Stage cinematic work are entire different of work 🙂.

Thats why we say, Grace And Grooves Corp By Hetal Nagaraj is an investment for dancer, a lifelong learning to use it throughout life in every stage of life and all the way to senior age life too just for body well being.

Decades of trainings means think of “mental well being it offers”.

#Right

As a result, our students rarely require choreography classes; when they do, they are typically master-level sessions at entire different level.

Workshops choreography too are technique focused to certain level of “trainings”.

Hetal Nagaraj Dance-International makes sure of this.

Next few weeks, enjoy the latest dance clips of our Elites and mini-Elites who choreo too on their own. Company updates and uplinks will be completed first.

Our Elites and Grads sends Ms Hetal these clips of their performances often.

— 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

Bio – Artistic Director – Hetal Joshi Nagaraj – Grace And Grooves® Corp

Bio – Artistic Director – Hetal Joshi Nagaraj Grace And Grooves® Corp. Link on the www.graceandgrooves.com

  • Commercial Launch – Hetal Nagaraj was launced as drama artist in 1994 (Academic Year : 93-94) | Estd.1999 | Company Estd. 2010 | Company Regd. in 2012 | Trademarks in 2024 – 2025 |
  • Classical Background: Video Glimpse.
    • Pre-Elementary Bharatanatyam : Dance Dramas Classical Repertoire 1982 : Age 4 : Formal Trainings of introducing Indian Drama started at the age of 4 from her mother Lt. Daksha M Joshi (Non-Commercial Classical Drama Artist – Dance Drama)
    • Bharatanatyam – Sadhir/Sathir-Sadir : 1984 :
    • Bharatanatyam Trainings From her mother Lt. Daksha M Joshi (Non-Commercial Clasiscal Drama Artist – Dance Dramas): Style: Sadir/Sathir/Ancient Bharatanatyam. Completed in 1990.
    • Bharatanatyam : 1984-85 – Kalakshetra – Age 6 : Formal Bharatnatyam Training started with Ms. Daksha. V. Joshi. Style : Kalakshetra Style. Completed & Started Internships in 1996.​​
    • Professional Kathak :97, 98: Professional Kathak Courses Lucknow and Jaipur Gharaanaa/Alternately. 40 hour trainings / Choreo, Application for Fusion by technique.
    • Post Arangetram Bharatanatyam : 2015: Advance Bharatnatyam Knowledge from Smt.Rama Vaidyanathan(held by NrithyaDhwani-Dallas 2015). Thillana & Above, Post Arangetram Dances. 2015: Natyam & Nritta Knowledge from Smt.Niraliben Thakore and Shri.Chandanbhai Thakore (Nrithyabharati “Bharatnatyam”-Ahmedabad-India 2015).
    • Kalaripayattu : 2015 : Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad-India. Beginners To Intermediate, Intermediate to Advance. (Style : Thekkan Kalari). Dance & Martial Arts Form.
    •  Chhau : 2015  : Completed Chhau with dance drama props and costumes with Full trainings of 20years.​ Styles : Purulia Chhau & Mayurbhanj Chhau. Dance & Martial Arts Form.
    • Degree : Masters in Fine Arts. Year of Completion: 2018-2019. Status : Awaiting Certificates.
      • University : Tamil University-Chennai, India. Education Level : Masters. Check – Dance Linkedin. Education Type : Sponsored Education. Specialization : Bharatanatyam, Theaters/Theatres of India, Dramas, Dance Dramas & Theory of Dance. College : TDES – TiruchirappalI Diocesan Educational Society, Trichy & Tamil University. Branch : Don Bosco School Of Arts & Technology-Kilpauk-Chennai, India. Program Info  : 2 Years Masters Program. Visiting Residency Program : Must come for 25-30 full days at-least 1 of the year (9am to 8pm class – attendance, theory, full costume concert in Bharatanatyam and Musicals, practical dance exams margam and non-margam, nattuvangam, thalam, 2 exam papers and 2 practicals on Folk Dances of India, Creative Dances and Theater/Theatres with thesis & research to one of their locations in India.)
      • Instructors / Teachers & Rehearsals : Jaykishan/Jaykrishnan Ambadi : Graduate of Kalakshetra Foundation-Chennai, India. MFA/same university. Thesis & Dissertation Mentor & Program Guide : Dr. Marie Stella – PHD/Scholar at Tamil University & Owner of Kalai Aalayam Dance Institute, Pondicherry, India. Examiners : PHD / Scholars / Double PHDs From various universities & Stella Ma’am. Program often compared to Harvard Level when it comes to intensity of dances, dance materials, thesis, practices and requirements to get in program. Journey of my Master in Fine Arts : Click Here.
  • Indian Folk Dance Formal Trainings: Video Glimpse.
    • ​Indian Folk Dances Trainings of over 15 years(non.stop) 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. Trainings did not stop after 15 years either with continuous mentorship.
      • 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.
      • 1999, 2000, 2015: Exclusvie Indian Folk-Dance Topics/Trainings at Darpana Academy of Performing Arts (Ahmedabad).
      • 1999: Navrang and Sri Sharada Kala Mandir for pure folk, fusion art forms and theater plays.
      • 1999: Hetal 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. Journey path – Hetal started her journey from Ahmedabad, Gujarat-India, Michigan, Kansas and now in Dallas-Fortworth Areas of Texas.
      • Collaborations : 2013: Fogana, assisting under strict supervision of Induben Mangrola for multiple Fogana Age Groups And Categories. 3rd prize adults/sr.folk/Garbha. Video – Click Here.
  • ​Bollywood / Movie Dance Trainings : Video Glimpse.
    • 2014 : Bollywood Teachers’ Training Workshop of 12 hours with Ms. Shampa Sonthalia, A Bollywood Choreographer visiting Dallas. Level : Instructors Training. Understanding Bollywood Dances from Dance Forms, Creating Choreographies that cater to commercial stages & entertainment. Learned 2 Master Level Dances of 3mins.
    • Guru – Daksha V Trivedi – BA – Fine Arts with Psychology : Mumbai University, India (As stated above).
      • Non-Classical : Indian Folk, Bollywood Industry – Dances, Styles, Trends & Theatre Practices.
      • Classical : Bharatanatyam & Trends & Theater, Musical Dance Dramas.
  • 1984 – 2004 – Non Indian Dance Trainings – Specialities.
    • Ms. Hetal represents India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran and Latin Fusions in various International Culture Festivals.
      • Nepal Performing Arts:
        • ​Kumari – Newar Classical – Speciality, Tamang Folk Dances – Speciality, Nepali Maruni Dance – Speciality, Gorkha Dance – Speciality, Indo Nepal Performing Arts, Darjeeling Nepali Folk Dance, Sikkim Nepali Folk Dance, Himalayan Folk Dance, Assam Nepali Dance, Uttarakhand Nepali Dance, Himachal Nepali Dance, Dooars Nepali Dance, Northeast Indian Nepali Community Dance, And all border states along with proper Nepal Folk Dances/
      • Persian – Farsi – Iranian – Indo Iranian –
        • ​Private Batches for Sangeet-Mehdi and Marriage Parties For Farsi Clients, Dastmal Dance – Speciality, Persian Circle Dance – Speciality, Bandari Dance (Southern Iranian coastal style), Farsi Wedding Dance – Speciality, Navjote Celebration Dance – Speciality, Khaleegy (Khaliji Dance) – Speciality, Sufi – Indian and Melvavi – Speciality, To name a few.​
  • 2004 – 2018 – Non-Indian Dance Trainings – USA :
    • She was born In Indian Family and raised in diverse/international environment in India with half of family well-spread in USA for over 2 generations now & she has picked the best of both the worlds & trends in her own life along with performing arts. 
    • 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. However, first introductions of formal couple dances were learned in 2004 in Michigan through a latin instruction for hetal’s husband/nagaraj’s corporate/formal parties.
    • Hiphop Journey : 2012 started journey of bollywood hiphop by teaching strength & conditioning class of well-versed break-dancers(Hritik Series/Dhoom Series) at Mustang Recreation Center for Adults(Irving), Disco – Boys Only, and then hiphop from recreational levels to pre-competitions. 2014-2015 Mastered Hiphop/Urban, Jazz, Creative Movements – Dance Council, Coppell Dance Centre – Beginners to Intermediate, Intermediate.Instructors : Keith Green, Ms Kim, Marcella. By 2016, she mastered intermediate to advance with various master level workshops, practice at dance council of North Texas. Keith Green’s ALL workshops. Video : Hiphop – NEW – Uploaded!!!!
    • 2015 : Zumba Certifications. Location : Lewisville, Texas
    • Contemporary 2017, 2018 : Christopher Vo (A Broadway artist/NY). Martha Graham’s/Broadway Style(New-York).Venue-Booker T Washington, Dallas-Texas. See his participations : Here.
    • Non Indian Dance Collaborations : Click Here.
    • Maiko Performance – Japanese Folk Musical Dance Drama
  • Specializations, Showcases : Videos.
    • 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 Contemporary (Indian & Non Indian), Bolly-HipHop/Bollyhop, Hiphop(urban), Faith Based Dances By Genre & By Religion/Culture (Hindu, Christian & Muslim). 
    • Hetal has showcased famous dances (some with trainings or some with exclusive copyright permits) of Guru.Smt.Minalben Oza, Gujarati Literature/Sahitya, Tamil Literature/Sahitya, Telugu Literature, Annamacharya Keerthis, Rukmani Devi Arundale, Guru.Smt.Mallikaben Sarabhai & Smt.Induben Mangrola’s conceptual artistic dances as a tribute in various dances of her own.
    • Hetal is trained for/in Rabindra Nruthya and Katha under the legacy of Shri. Ravishankar’s family (Rabindra Shonkar Chowdary) and own school as well. Hetal’s entire college years had a strong influence of this legacy and several projects. Hetal’s phase 1 in Tagore series were completed in 2019 successfully by inhouse students and a few external students.
    • Hetal Nagaraj is performing arts student (as subject) through out her schooling, college and later continued as paid artists to freelancer and complete 360-degree artist industry from teaching to studio setup! She is part of several studio-institutional industry-requirements in India and USA. With this, g2dancefactory is her very first own – build to use – without any partnership or collabs but otherwise her 8th remodel work and otherwise g2 is the 3rd american-studio-with full safety protocols and usage that she has led or is 99% instruction.
  • Performances/Competitions/Fundraisers (India And USA): Videos/Pictures/Links
    • 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).
    • Competition Awards | Non.Competition and Publishing Awards w/Interviews
    • 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).Videos of these competitions-Click Here.
    • 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.
    • Hetal has performed on several works of Hema Maalini ji – Natyavihar Kalakendra, Mumbai,  Rama Vaidyanathan ji, several production dances of Darpana Academy-Ahmedabad and artistic works of Parshwanath Upadhyey(California) and several others for creative aspect, with full permissions from uploader and the choreographer.
    • Non Stop Straight 26 Years of Competition Wins in USA, India and Canada – 1st 3 Places – Bharatanatyam, Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood, Hiphop, Nepali Folk Dances.
  • Family & Inspirations :
  • Success Ratio & Graduates By 2020 :
    • Hetal Nagaraj’s students are celebrating their 250th, 450th hour Bollywood, 350th or 400th hour in Indian Folk Dances (once week), 60th hour Hiphop, 30th hour Contemporary, 150th hour in Kalaripayattu, for some the journey has began and are about to touch their 100th hour & some at 500th hour in Bharatanatyam(some twice week) & the history continues.
    • Documented Graduates, Every Elite Line, Documented Classes, Shows, Programs Productions and Shoots.
    • Several Students are at National level and made it International NEWS in 2021-2024. That is just our own owner’s Hetal contribution and capacity with results + Choreographers teach.
    • Graduate Students : Hetal Nagaraj has 300+ of Full Currlculam Graduates just in USA and has instructed / taught 3590+ students, by level Graduates on full completion, all over in India and USA by 2024 December by curriculam, genre and by programs.
    • Workshop Students : Hetal Nagaraj has taught workshops to 50 – 2500 students – at a time, in DFW-Texas, USA and upto 400-800 students technique workshops in Indian Folk, Festival Folk Dances, Bharatanatyam Introduction, Fusion Classical Dances Work, Yoga & Dance Projects, Kalari & Bharatanatyam, Chau & Bharatanatyam, Kalari & Bollywood/Tollywood as well as Bollywood/Tollywood in DFW areas of North Texas.
    • Hetal’s other statistics of all these activities other than regular programs.
    • Statistics of social media and records.
  • Performance Record as of 2025 Feb in all performing arts specialities: 
    • More than 320 solo/group performances with a key participant.
    • More than 330 programs or events successfully delivered.
    • 223 total workshops conducted exclusively u/leadership + exclusively w/more than 99% involvement.
    • 28 non profit programs exclusively led with full involvement.
    • 12 sponsored programs exclusively handled and led with full involvement.
    • 185+ private packages sold, taught and led exclusively with full involvement.
    • 85 workshop delivered successfully to clients.
    • 21 lecture demonstrations delivered successfully.
    • 14 fitness and wellness workshops delivered successfully
    • More than 21 projects mentored & successfully delivered under me with full involvement independently by my grads.
    • More than 36 minors (3 to 13 years) launched successfully by Hetal Nagaraj exclusively.
    • More than 21 successful launch of In-house Elites / own grads.
    • More than 57 successful independent projects delivered by my teams, mentored with full involvement under me.
    • More than 14 non-dance professionals launched under me for diperforming arts services/products.
    • More than 8 external artists launched independently
    • More than 14 successfull brands launched in various countries.
    • More than 7 international workshops successfully delivered of other artists under me.
    • More than 14 Gifted artists were trained to be skilled in variuos products/services.
    • Successfull launch of 13 external choreographers with full involvement.
    • More than 57 exclusive shoots by me and with full involvement with more than 116 best shots delivered till date for variuos gigs.
    • More than 18 skilled professionals launched in USA, India, Canada.
    • More than 25 makeup hair gigs sucessfull delivered per request of client or shoot.
    • Straight wins for all curriculum competition – 2007 to 2023 in all genres, in DFW itself.
      • India/Michigan/Kansas – Wins from 2000.
    • Myself and Students Culture Awards – more than 10.
    • Total students taught as of Dec 2025 – 4000+ | Total Grads more than 250+ in 8 genres and this count does not include workshop students.
    • Number of Arangetrams exclusive margams – 8 as of 2023. Hetal dances margam.
    • Highest number of Indian Folk Workshops, highest number of Bollywood workshops and highest number of Bharatanatyam(in DFW) workshops as of 2023.
    • Number of successful brands 40.
    • All the pic relevance. | Part Time until 2019 | Define part time.
    • Social Media & Fun Facts for all of this activities by playlist 

Life Stats – https://www.hetaln.com/lifestats 

Awards :

Winner of 6 International Awards from culture, leadership, upbringing of women/youth, entrepreurship, educator and 28+ Competition/Students Awards/ ALL Non-Voting Events.

News & Awards  |  Awards & Nominations with International Publishings

Her recognitions & award nominations are published in newspapers such as Times Of India, India Today, Divya Bhaskar, Aamtek News, Vatsalya News, Hello Gujarat TV Channel and many others.

Industrial Experience as well as Internships is conviniently listed.

Education : http://www.hetaln.com 

Business Linkedin : Click Here 

Social Media(s): Dance Linkedin: Click Here.

Hetal Nagaraj’s Artist Collaborations Outside Grace And Grooves LLC – Click Here.

Hetal Nagaraj’s Artist Collaborations with own team – Click Here  | Video Clips.

Social Media Links : Facebook, Youtube.

Nicknames : Often known to her friends as hets, hetvi, hetal, heetal, hethal, heta or hetu, or Ms. Hetal.

— 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

Non Indian Specialities of Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

Non Indian Specialities of Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj

Surprised to see Ms. Hetal’s dance groups, own students and Grace And Grooves Group name in various ethnicities and country lineup — as representation during International Festivals ?

Here’s why ———

  • Ms. Hetal regularly represents these countries in international festivals with her own students –
    • India – always + below
    • Nepal,
    • Bangladesh.
    • Iran,
    • Latin Fusion
  • within Dallas Fortworth, Texas USA in various international programs or festivals.
  • Ms. Hetal has performed too in all of these, just for something new for herself.
  • Ms. Hetal instructs these herself.
  • Ms. Hetal’s first program registration batches itself was in Indian Folk Dances – North Indian Folk Dances and Nepal Folk Dances in South Irving, Texas
  • Often seen in these programs too. specifically Nepal Dance Schools and Culture Fest.
  • Several Graduates, including the Elite Lines are in some too!

and the rest is history.

Successfully performed, competed and won prizes the following cities and states of various countries – Exclusive to Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.

  1. Dallas Fortworth, Texas, USA
  2. Kathmandu, Nepal.
  3. Delhi, India.
  4. California, USA.
  5. New York, USA

Nepal Performing Arts

  1. Kumari – Newar Classical – Speciality.
  2. Tamang Folk Dances – Speciality.
  3. Nepali Maruni Dance – Speciality.
  4. Gorkha Dance – Speciality.

Indo Nepal Performing Arts –

  1. Darjeeling Nepali Folk Dance
  2. Sikkim Nepali Folk Dance,
  3. Himalayan Folk Dance
  4. Assam Nepali Dance,
  5. Uttarakhand Nepali Dance,
  6. Himachal Nepali Dance,
  7. Dooars Nepali Dance,
  8. Northeast Indian Nepali Community Dance.
  9. And all border states along with proper Nepal Folk Dances.

Persian – Farsi – Iranian – Indo Iranian – Private Batches for Sangeet-Mehdi and Marriage Parties For Farsi Clients.

  1. Dastmal Dance – Speciality.
  2. Persian Circle Dance – Speciality.
  3. Bandari Dance (Southern Iranian coastal style)
  4. Farsi Wedding Dance – Speciality.
  5. Navjote Celebration Dance – Speciality.
  6. Khaleegy (Khaliji Dance) – Speciality.
  7. Sufi – Indian and Melvavi – Speciality.
  8. To name a few.

Japanese Drama – Musical – Dance

  1. Maiko Performance – the only one not performed.

Hiphop

  1. Urban – Intermediate-Advance – Speciality.
  2. American – Intermediate-Advance – Speciality.
  3. Broadway Styles – Intermediate-Advance.
  4. Indian, Advance – Speciality.
  5. K-Pop, Advance
  6. Latin Pop. Intermediate-Advance – Speciality.

Latin Fusion Mix – Private Batches. Speciality. Little of below, custom tech work —-

  1. Couple Dances,
  2. Salsa,
  3. Waltz,
  4. Ball room
  5. Bachata

Musical Dance Drama

  1. Broadway Styles

Mahua Dance (West Bengal — Bangladesh Folk Tradition)

  1. Musical Dance Drama

Plenty of international students learn Bollywood too under Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.

Company found some brochures and lineups of standing banners in one of the emails during early 2009-2012 period.

Pic Album of these — work in progress.

FB – Hetal Nagaraj Dance Album – Solo Performances

— 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