Folk Dances of India

Richness of culture, traditions, respect, and above all majestic celebrations of each festivals…every other week there is a festival in some part of India…
A country that embraces diversity, colors, several religions and from all this was born…FOLK DANCES OF INDIA.

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

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Ms. Hetal maintains a structured database of participants, including parents, students, interns, and staff engaged with our programs. Participants may join either on-site or remotely, depending on program requirements and accessibility needs.

All internships, school-linked placements, and college-associated training opportunities(must submit university credentials) are structured as intern-positions or based on speciality in year of university, whereever applicable, to ensure equitable access and professional development for students.

There is a 5 month probation period for individuals to submit university, NJHS and such credentials which are to be required as proof of submission(from university, college or school isd official letter) to intiate the work.

In addition, select volunteer opportunities are offered for community engagement and supplementary learning experiences. Our team structure includes administrative staff, program coordinators, interns, externships, parents programs and we ensure appropriate introductions and engagement with all stakeholders as needed for program delivery and oversight.

Company’s Time Line – Grace And Grooves Timeline | Hetal Nagaraj’s Life Stats – https://www.hetaln.com/lifestats

Program leadership and operational direction are primarily overseen by Hetal Nagaraj, ensuring continuity, accountability, and alignment across all activities and participants.

More than 60 official legit ways to work with Grace And Grooves Corporation by Hetal Nagaraj.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizational Participation, Staffing & Participants (2011–2025)

1. Administrative & Core Coordination Staff

Swati Burra (Swati S.)

  • Role: Coordinator & Administrative Support – Success.
  • Tenure: 2011–2016
  • Brand – Grace And Grooves Corp, and Ms. Hetal’s own.
  • Work Structure: Part-time (4 days/week)
  • Summary: Swati Burra served in a key administrative and coordination role supporting scheduling, operations, and program logistics over a five-year period. She completed her training cycle and transitioned into independent IT consultancy work, reflecting successful professional development and career progression.

Deepthi Chandrasekar

  • Role: Coordinator & Administrative Support, H4 Visa Status.
  • Tenure: 2015-2018
  • Brand – Texas All Star International, Texas All Star Talents, Grace Effects (husband) – Success.
  • Work Structure: 3 days / 3 hours a day
  • Summary: Deepthi served in a key administrative and coordination role supporting research, training, development, various program logistics over 3 years as intern. She completed her training cycle and transitioned to perfomer with company.
    • The only individual offered an official 40 hour-work visa to work officially with company but chosed not to, family planning.

Directors of Various Brands – Staff.

– Staff – Regional, National and International

Former, Current – Staff List W2, W9, 1099, Paypal, through our own Portal Platform –

Company never had a staff until G2. G2 has regular payrolls. All are project based and usually or are Workshops, after the completion of Internships-Externships, if need. Some are own students – Graduates and Elites or are Success of other non-dance specialties and have to take certain hands onn trainings. Seeding projects too have payrolls.

  • Students – Graduates – Pre Elites – Elites – Internships – Externships – Experienced – Projects and Payrolls.
  • Volunteer hands onn Trainings, NJHS, Scholar Programs – Graduates – Pre Elites – Elites – Internships – Externships – Well Seasoned Experienced – Projects and Payrolls.
  • Reachh PR also has payrolls and projects payouts.
  • Individuals not authorized for remunerations are not paid because of Immigration Policies.
  • These are what you can define as Lab-Pratical Trainings to relate to educational theoritical learnings in the classrooms as student.
  1. Taylor – G2.
  2. Marchawn G2 and hetaln.com
  3. Deepthi, Hourly (EAD).
  4. Mansi, Grace And Grooves – project/gigs/workshops-in person, Dhamaal Events USA brands.
  5. Manoj Bagga, Dhamaal Events USA, All Star International, Texas All Star.
  6. Santosh Kumar, Dhamaal Events USA, All Star International, Texas All Star.
  7. Anna Vasquez G2,
  8. Justin Soo – Grace And Grooves, by project.
  9. Mina G2
  10. Ashna Pethe – Hourly, as available, Company internal work only, Grace And Grooves. hetaln, Dhamaal Events USA brands.
  11. Nirja Setty – Hourly, as available, Company internal work only, Grace And Grooves, hetaln, Dhamaal Events USA brands.
  12. Samarth Setty – Hourly, as available, Company internal work only, Grace And Grooves, hetaln, Dhamaal Events USA brands.
  13. Aahana – Frisco and Vicinity – hourly, as available, Company internal work only, Grace And Grooves, hetaln
  14. Vendors Programs, by project-gig.
  15. Service Providers, Adhoc Services.
  16. Neetu – Kalakshetra – Texas All Star Programs, Dhamaal Events USA
  17. Anula – Depends on gig, vendor programs
  18. Preethi Choleti – depends on gig.
  19. Sindhu J – depends on amount.
  20. Nandika Jay – Gigs only, as available.
  21. Jinal Shah – hetaln.com
  22. Hetal J Shah – hetaln.com
  23. Digvijay – hetaln.com
  24. Jaimin Patel – hetaln.com
  25. Swati Burra – Grace And Grooves
  26. Navneet Jadeja – hetaln.com
  27. Vanita Patel – hetaln.com
  28. Prusti Dave – hetaln.com, by project.
  29. Puja Natesan – Grace And Grooves, by project/gig.
  30. Vinish Vasam – Grace And Grooves – Martial Arts Program.
  31. Anish Rangrej – Dhamaal Events USA, In person – through indian billing

2. Early Program Collaborations

Krishna Veni Putrevu (Odyssey Program – 2012)

  • Program Type: Company-to-company collaborative training model
  • Duration: 6 months (2012)
  • Summary:
    Participated in a structured collaborative arts training initiative involving 12 students under a joint organizational model. During planning for geographic expansion, alignment challenges arose regarding North Dallas participation.
  • The collaboration was formally dissolved, and all 12 students continued their training within the South Irving folk arts program under Hetal Nagaraj.

3. Internships, Training & Student Development Pathways

Shruti Sheladia

  • Tenure: Aug 2012 – Dec 2013
  • Role: Intern / Leadership Trainee (as available)
  • Summary:
    Engaged intermittently in internship and leadership assignments.
  • The engagement concluded due to non-continuation of assigned responsibilities and limited participation consistency.
  • Additional Note: Sponsored participation in Raas Nationals (organization-funded opportunity). Sponsorship by Hetal Joshi Nagaraj.

Mansi Chauhan 2013 – 2023

  • Internship: Aug 2014 – Aug 2015
  • Leadership Role: Jan 2015 – July 2019 (as available)
  • Summary:
    Participated in NJHS scholar pathways, volunteer programs, and leadership assignments.
  • Engagement reduced over time due to academic commitments, travel, and external priorities.
  • Adminstration – Contracts, Compliance.
  • Additional Notes:
    Completed structured dance training in multiple categories and participated in long-term programs (2013–2023), including workshops, performances, and curriculum-based instruction.
  • 2012-2023 – Successful 10 Year Contract Completed with all work assigned, completed, delivered with all due payments to company and several was key part of several development projects within the company.
  • Several Initiatives within the brands.

Pre. Elites and Elites Lines of Programs – 2011 to Till Date – Work In Progress.

4. Direct Hire & Performance Artists

Rinku Das

  • Tenure: Nov 2018 – Aug 2019
  • Role: Direct Hire Performer
  • Summary:
    Performed classical Manipuri and Kathak works, including participation in Anantha-1 (2019) production. Engagement concluded following contract completion and enrollment-based participation requirements not being met for continued collaboration.
  • Rinku Das is director of Nrityajyoti Dance Academy.

Digvijay Singh (DG / DJ / Jasmindar & Family)

  • Tenure: Aug 2018 – 2024, Pseudonym
  • Roles: Intern → Leadership Contributor → Digital Asset Strategy Manager (Paid Role, 2022-2025)
  • Summary:
    Progressed through internship and leadership responsibilities in digital and operational support functions, later transitioning into a paid strategic role in digital asset management.
  • 2025-Relocation.

5. Freelancers & Project-Based Collaborators,

Some are own students, grads or Elites. Full Direction of Ms. Hetal to achieve milestones for company.

  • Navneet Jadeja & Family – Visiting artist collaborators (India-based freelance performer, performs in India)
    • Mumbai, Delhi. Part – pseudonym
  • Hetal Shah Patel & Family – Creative collaborators (IT + dance projects via hetaln.com) – Grad and Elite.
    • Aug 2016 – 2026.
  • Vanita Patel – Freelance performer – Grad and Elite.
    • 2018-2026.
  • Jinal Shah Mehta – Project collaborator (former Reachh Mediaa association) – Grad and Elite.
    • Aug 2018 to current. Part – pseudonym
    • 2nd highest Contributor to business and revenue of the company, other than Ms. Hetal
  • Kalpana Sai – PR and project-based freelancer (2019–present) – Grad and Elite. Part – pseudonym
  • Shweta (Thakkar) Jagadish – Long-term freelance performer (2016–2025).
  • Deepthi Chandrasekaran – Solo artist / instructor (2014–2018, 2019-2022 Ad-hoc stage performances) – Grad and Elite- Bollywood. 2025.
  • Sindhu J – Student → Graduate performer → occasional project contributor – Grad and Elite.
  • Ruchita Umesh – 2020 – Online lessons, Batches were rolled off due to low enrollments.
    • On-boarding Trial Period.
  • Santosh K – June 2016 – 2021 March 21 – Online Only
    • 2016-2020 – Paid – Pre Judgement, Non Classical – For all star international.
    • 2016-2017 – Paid – Research Rubrics.
    • June 2020 – March 22, 2021 – Elites, Age 10, Online Classes Only.
    • 2022 September – Special gigs, online.
  • Yagna Pathak – 2019 Sept 1s week – Oct 1, 2019 – Dancer.
  • Jeya Ravi – External Continued Education/Performing Teams – Dancer.
  • Dr Puja Natesan – Performing team, Graduate and Elite.
    • Continued Education, Performing Team. Anantha 2020.
    • Grad and Elite. Reachh Mediaa Group – PR.
  • Kavitha R- August 2018 – 2021 – Auto Immune Break.
    • Can join back when allowed to work with a doctor’s note.
  • Tejaswini K – August 2018
    • Performing teams, Gad and Elite.
    • Continued Education. Family Planning Break from Jan 2019.
  • Mandi Parikh – Holiday Performer – August 2018 – Nov 1, 2022
    • Dance with Elite teams only 2022-2023.
    • Mexico Performances from 2024. Short Projects, Gigs, Admin work.
    • Part – pseudonym
  • Bhuvaneshwari Murugan – 2016-2017 –
    • 52 hour workshop online delivered, 1 commercial performance
  • Prushti Dave – IT –
    • Inventory Systems – Custom Build designed by Ms. Hetal Joshi Nagaraj – 2017
    • March – August 2019 – Back office, IT support
    • Leadership Work 2019 August onwards – Web infrastructure, google console, Seo Teams.
    • moved to Ms. Hetal, permanently.
  • Anamika Jain – June 2019.
    • Performing teams. Sponsored program gigs for celebrities.
    • 2020-too many work travel.
  • Ketki S – June 2019 – Oct 2019.
  • Nimisha Sri – Holidays March 2019 – 2021 –
    • Anantha 2019. Performance
    • 1 photoshoot gig.
  • Devi S – Balasundaram – Sept 2019 – Oct 31, 2019
  • Taylor Hayes – August 2020 – April 2021 – G2 Staff direct hire, G2 Success – Relocated.
  • Anna Vacques – Sept 2021 – June 13, 2022 – G2 Success – Grads. Lay-off. Closure of Location.
  • Mina – Hiphop – Sept 2021 – June 15, 2022.Lay-off. Closure of Location.
  • Marchawn Franklin – Sept 2021-June 2022.Lay-off. Closure of Location.
    • Admin work refined under Ms. Hetal for online meetings, conferences.
    • IT Internships – Success on company’s all the automated systems.
  • Jaimin Patel – June 30, 2022. Part – pseudonym
  • Vinish Vasam – Sept 30, 2022 – Feb 22, 2023.
  • Preethi Cholleti – 2023-2024 – Dancer.
    • Ms. Hetal refused to come to Mckinney to supervise lessons nonetheless, batch was not quite formed.
    • Gigs as available. Reachh Mediaa Group PR
  • Anula 2022-current – Elite by Audition Programs
    • Performances in company shows, gigs, Sponsored programs by Hetal Nagaraj.
    • Brand Paused – Moved to Vendor Programs by Hetal Nagaraj.
  • Jae/Justin Soon – 2019 – 2021 – G2 Launch Activities, Brand Launch.
    • Closure of location – 2022.
    • Continued providing services for Commercial Gigs – Online.
  • Aahana M – 2022-2023 – Bollywood Program – 12 hours & Rehearsal Ms. Hetal – Grade and Elite.
    • Bollywood, Folk Dances of India, Kalaripayattu, Creatives, Mixed Martial Arts Demonstrations.

6. Program Graduates & Structured Training Outcomes

Multiple participants completed structured training pathways (2011–current), including:

  • Classical and Folk Dance Education
  • Bollywood and Fusion Programs
  • NJHS (National Junior Honor Society, Education-Scholar Paths) are :
    • Amuy*** – Student Intern
      • Volunteer – NJHS Scholar Path, Relocation due to degree studies.
      • Grace Effect Photography Initiative, in association with LISD Electives.
    • Mansi Chauhan, Student Intern – 7th grade.
      • Volunteer – NJHS Scholar Path
      • Grad And Elite.
      • Commercial Competition Initiative.
      • 3rd Highest Contributor to business and revenue of the company, other than Ms. Hetal
      • Successful Completion.
    • Nirja Setty – Student from age of 4.5 years.
      • Volunteer – NJHS Scholar Path
      • Grad And Elite
      • Several Initiatives within the company, record breaking straight 10 years of win in competitions in Bharatanatyam, Folk, Hiphop, K-Pop and Bollywood.
      • Initiatives to launch more than 45 brands of Grace And Grooves Corp.
      • Highest Contributor to business and revenue of the company, other than Ms. Hetal
      • Successful Completion.
    • Samarth Setty – Student from age of 3 years.
      • Volunteer – NJHS Scholar Path
      • Grad And Elite.
      • Several Initiatives within the company, record breaking straight 8 years of win in competitions in Bharatanatyam, Folk, Hiphop, Kalaripayattu-Martial Arts Demonstrations, K-Pop and Bollywood.
      • Initiatives to launch more than 45 brands of Grace And Grooves Corp.
      • Highest Contributor to business and revenue of the company, other than Ms. Hetal
      • Successful Completion.
    • Ashna Pethe – Student from age of 8 years.
      • Volunteer – NJHS Scholar Path
      • Grad And Elite.
      • Initiatives to Model Shoot Programs for Teenagers.
      • Successful Completion.
    • Avani Parihar –
      • Volunteer – NJHS Scholar Path
      • 51 hours of successful tasks assigned and completed along with in-person private package trainings for correction lessons in Bharatanatyam.
      • Group Lessons, Allen Location – Bharatanatyam – Adavus.
      • Ms. Hetal refused to come to Prosper.
  • Performance-based curriculum tracks.
  • Annual production participation (Annual Productions held thrice a year)
  • More than 60 ways to be the part of this infrastructure.

Participants transitioned into independent artistic, academic, or freelance careers after program completion.

8. Operational Challenges & Program Disturbances

System Disturbances & Fraud to the company (2021-2022 Period)

During this period, the organization experienced operational disturbances associated with several brands, which then were duly reported, documented because of level of damage in the company, reputation and company’s revenue caused due to fraud-criminal disturbances, system interference concerns and code of conduct, which were escalated to relevant authorities for review.

Individual disturbances were –

  • Deliberate pauses in program delivery systems by creating unnecessary setbacks without understanding brand workforce.
  • Deliberately delaying administrative workforce despite the task priority to high income projects.
  • Demotion from every brand and leadership assignments – inability to correct.
  • Inability to take leadership roles, being absent in all the work assigned.
  • Delays in certain project pipelines by creating unnecessary setbacks.
  • Unauthorized activities without consent of company or Ms. Hetal
  • Unauthorized activites outside visa limitations.
  • Program disturbances caused due to code of conduct, despite regular reminders of several waivers.
  • Unauthorized permissions to minors in certain activities without consent of Ms. Hetal and Company.
  • Reallocation of internal company’s resources that contributes toward system recovery and continuity, without permissions.
  • Forged Documents, contracts without permission of company or Ms. Hetal and outside limitations of visa and deactivated automated contract platforms without permissions that ensures transparency and traceability of every contract discrepency.
  • Unauthorized payments received to self in name of company, without consent of company or Ms. Hetal and never received to Ms. Hetal or company.
    • Individual in above fraud interferences – Saumya Bhardwaj Kaur / Saumya Kaur – Not a 20 year old-student and is 30+ year old, defrauded company the Ms. Hetal with fake resume.
    • Despite given all the opportunity to start fresh as a training school would;until company-emails revealed dangerous activities being planned to harm Elites. Individual is reported to authorities.
  • These are verified through the following – documented incidents such as evidences of emails, emails to lawyers falsely accusing company or company’s elites or Ms. Hetal, text messages, recorded clips or videos of unauthorized activities and unauthorized permission to minors, refusal of permissions, verified internal findings with unathorized transactions, unauthorized activities outside visa limitations, findings of unauthorized activities posts on social media, contractual disputes because of forged documents, compliance concerns, or formally reported matter to local authorities.
  • These verifications were caught on company’s assets such as company provided gmail ids to converse within company, icloud backups, gadgets and gears backups – phone and laptop, external drives and memory cards — usually provided to every individual in university or student programs for leadership smooth operations.
  • Several emails and details were deleted from gadgets, or company assets and Ms. Hetal was able to retreive them all.

Other disturbances – loss of million$ worth of seeding projects of 13 Elites and several small scale projects at G2 Arlington location due to negligence of property management company in pending building permits, not conversed during contract to company until director found out through city-portals. Certain access to city-portal is not available until permit application is in process as it contains details of previous owners or until city supervisor is followed through. Public access portal was not updated with respect to property until the matter was addressed by Ms. Hetal.

When these projects rolled back because of delays of locations of permits and back to back fraud, Ms Hetal had to bear the costs of all the cancellations and several legal mess that was caused by these individuals. This marks as the worst period in the history of Ms. Hetal’s or company’s life.

It is essential to know that company and Ms. Hetal survived these dangerous setbacks despite certain individual’s deliberate attempts to cause harm to every single individual within company and to clients. Ms. Hetal’s Information Technology-Intellect and collective experiences of life have saved entire teams, key contributors to company and Ms. Hetal’s own family. This also, saved mis-use of database and personal details of individuals.

Program Continuity and Operational Resilience

Despite these challenges, core instructional and performance programs continued in modified formats, including in-person, hybrid and online delivery models.

During this 2021–2025 period, right after these incidences, the organization encountered significant catastrophic operational disturbances and documented compliance-related concerns that affected several programs, partnerships, and revenue-generating activities. Certain matters were identified through written communications, administrative records, and internal documentation processes, requiring the organization to implement corrective operational and governance measures.

As a result of these challenges, some brands and initiatives were/are temporarily paused until funds are received in full, while some are restructured so that organization remains focused on protecting program integrity, participant interests, and long-term sustainability.

Although several Elite Lines, training initiatives, and organizational programs continued successfully under the leadership of Ms. Hetal through the use of contractual safeguards, structured oversight, and continuity planning.

The organization remains committed to transparency, compliance, accountability, integrity of the company and the country thereby strengthening internal operational systems to support sustainable growth and responsible program management moving forward!

8. Contractual Outcomes & Engagement Closures (Selected Examples)

Across programs, several engagements concluded due to standard operational factors such as:

  • Scheduling or location constraints
  • Academic or personal commitments and other goals in life
  • Transition to independent work
  • Enrollment or participation limitations
  • Contract completion or mutual non-renewal
  • Time, Duration of Project.
  • More than 60 ways to be part of the program.

All closures were/are handled within structured program frameworks, with many participants continuing independent artistic or professional pathways afterward.f

9. Sponsorship & Community Support Activities

The organization has provided sponsored participation opportunities in cultural programs, competitions, and national events, including full or partial funding for select student experiences as part of its community arts mission.

This is handled by Ms. Hetal Nagaraj herself, just as all above and below. Sole Owner.

10. Long-Term Program Impact (2013–2023)

  • 10-year continuous program cycle with structured training delivery, not 1 but more than 10 examples!
  • Multiple cohorts trained across classical, folk, and indian-demonstration contemporary forms
  • Students transitioned into independent artistic, academic, and professional roles to leadership roles.
  • Consistent delivery of performances, workshops, educational outcomes, documented – 44,000+ recorded classes.
  • Development of hybrid IT, all areas of performing arts, industrial arts, commercial arts, manufacturing from ground zero locally, professional arts, institutional arts, internship, externships, innovation, cultural, spiritual, relgious, faith practice, Philanthropic, Civic & Charity as well as creative pathways in multiple styles and formats.

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) :

  1. Baz**. Lewisville, Grapevine. 2 solo performances.

11. Risk Management, and Operational Continuity – 2021-2022 –

The organization has experienced operational disruptions that have impacted certain training activities and program engagements across multiple functional areas. These disruptions affected continuity at scale and required immediate implementation of internal controls and corrective administrative measures. In response, the organization has relied on existing contractual agreements, documentation protocols, and compliance safeguards to ensure continuity of essential services and protection of program integrity. These mechanisms have enabled the organization to maintain operational stability and uphold its commitments to stakeholders and participants. The organization has since strengthened its governance framework, including enhanced oversight procedures, documentation verification standards, and internal accountability systems.

These improvements are designed to reduce operational risk, ensure regulatory and contractual compliance, and support long-term program sustainability. The organization remains committed to maintaining transparent operations, safeguarding participant trust, and ensuring all educational and training activities are conducted in alignment with applicable laws, institutional requirements, and grant compliance standards.

12. Contractual Structure and Program Engagement Framework –

The organization utilizes tiered engagement agreements designed to align participant experience levels, project complexity, and operational requirements. These agreements are implemented primarily to ensure organizational safety, clarity of scope, and proper allocation of responsibilities across varying types of engagements. Standard participation agreements are typically project-based and are not intended to create long-term employment obligations unless explicitly designated as full-time or long-term strategic roles. Certain high-complexity, high-budget, or sensitive turnkey projects may require advanced technical competency, demonstrated experience, and established reliability prior to participation due to the operational demands and risk profile of such work.

Entry-level participants are generally introduced through structured learning, training, or supervised project environments that allow gradual skill development and progressive responsibility. Advancement to higher-responsibility roles is based on demonstrated capability, technical proficiency, and successful completion of assigned deliverables. Many engagement agreements include defined duration terms or completion-based structures to ensure clarity for all parties and to support flexible participation models. This structure is intended to provide participants with autonomy while maintaining clear organizational boundaries and compliance with project requirements.

The organization prioritizes ethical engagement practices, transparent expectations, and role-appropriate responsibility assignment to ensure fairness, safety, and sustainability across all programs. Completion of task with respect to funds received to company, without bringing setbacks to company or individuals within the company is a benchmark of delivery.

13. Team Appreciation and Engagement Structure –

This communication serves as an appreciation to all individuals contributing their time, effort, and expertise to our organization’s programs and initiatives. We recognize and value the commitment of our team members, many of whom balance professional roles, academic responsibilities, and other personal commitments alongside their participation in our work.

The organization maintains a flexible and structured engagement model that accommodates individuals at different stages of professional and academic development. Participation in programs may include students, professionals, and collaborators engaged in either full-time commitments elsewhere or concurrent educational pursuits.

As part of our program framework, performance-based teams—including Elite and Pre-Elite designations—are integrated into existing training and production structures. These designations reflect levels of experience, responsibility, and project readiness within performance-oriented teams, consistent with established program standards. Our approach is designed to support inclusive participation, skill development, and progressive advancement while maintaining clear expectations, accountability, and alignment with organizational objectives.

We remain committed to fostering a respectful, structured, and development-focused environment where all contributors are valued for their time, effort, and dedication.

Company offers Integral awards to exceptional students who show leadership in various tasks. These awards are not extended to public interests and remain within the participations of Company.

  • Student of the Year Leadership Awards within the company with Endorsments and Perks.
  • Company never had any staff prior to G2 to consider staff-awards. G2 Arlington location tenure or staff was under constant change to validate any awards for the staff.
  • Cadre Awards –
    • Parents with outstanding performance to represent company in absence of Ms. Hetal.
    • 21+ Teams participate in cadre awards such as clay cup, silver cup, gold cup, diamond cup with endorsements of PR Perks, Remunerations and such other.
      • Interns, Grads, Elites – Gold Cup – Deepthi Chandrasekaran, Sindhu J, Mansi Chauhan.
      • Parents – Gold Cup – Priya Joshi, Digvijay Sinh.
      • Diamond Cup, As parent and Success Intern, Grad and Elite – Jinal Shah.
  • Man of the Year Awards in Women-Owned Business – Endorsed externally by Hello Gujarat – 21+ sponsored through Grace And Grooves Corp PR Reachh Mediaa – International Artist Brand – Dhamaal Events USA.
    • Manoj Bagga (Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India) for online programs during pandemic year 2020-2021and “paid” judge activity for all star international.
    • Santosh Kumar (Hyderabad/India-Vietnam-Australia) – for online programs during pandemic year 2020-2021 and “paid” judge activity for all star international.

14. Equal Opportunity and Inclusive Participation –

The organization is committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory and inclusive environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, color, or background.

Participation and engagement are guided solely by interest, capability, and commitment to contributing to the work and mission of the organization. We value individuals who demonstrate dedication, professionalism, and a willingness to contribute meaningfully to collaborative projects and learning environments.

The organization also respects the privacy and autonomy of all participants. Personal background information is not a determining factor in engagement, and individuals are supported in participating in a manner consistent with applicable laws, institutional guidelines, and program requirements.

Under the leadership of Ms. Hetal, the organization promotes a culture of respect, dignity, and equal access to opportunity, ensuring that all participants are treated fairly and consistently within structured program guidelines. As a training institute, Ms. Hetal believes that every day is fresh start, but then there are limitations to not allow fresh start after some point.

Internal Company Opportunities do not extend to individuals who lack skills of particular performance, certain level of maturity as per their existing profile, permissible visa status or by contractual obligations endorsed by parents.

Operational Responsibility, Cost Ownership, and Program Accountability –

The organization operates as a fully funded service and training provider, where significant upfront investment is made to develop, deliver, and maintain educational, creative, and production-based opportunities. These include training programs, costume and production design, technical resources, and experiential learning environments.
All program activities are structured under defined engagement agreements, where participants, staff, and collaborators are responsible for adhering to established scope, expectations, and conduct requirements.

The Company assumes full operational responsibility for program delivery, including financial investment, infrastructure, and production-related expenditures. This includes costs associated with training development, creative execution, and resource allocation that support participant learning and engagement.
To maintain clarity and compliance, participation records, deliverables, and media assets are managed through official program channels. Access to materials such as photos, videos, and project outputs is provided based on eligibility, program participation status, and applicable release agreements.

The organization maintains formal documentation of roles, contributions, and engagement history to ensure transparency, accountability, and proper attribution across all programs. All activities are conducted under the umbrella of the Grace and Grooves Corporation, ensuring consistency in governance, compliance, and operational oversight.

15. Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Transparency, and Organizational Growth –

The Company has successfully secured trademarks, copyrights, and brand protections across multiple countries, including the United States, both during and following periods of operational challenge.

These achievements reflect the organization’s continued commitment to structured governance, documentation standards, creative ownership, and operational transparency. Through consistent leadership, program continuity, and participant engagement, the organization has continued to strengthen its international presence and reputation across educational, creative, and performance-based sectors.

Under the leadership of Ms. Hetal Nagaraj—who serves both as an active participative team member and key performer—the organization has maintained a collaborative environment supported by the meaningful contributions of graduates, Elite teams, and specialized participants across multiple disciplines.

The Company remains committed to expanding its educational and experiential training initiatives through future collaborations with universities, institutions, and corporate partners. These programs are designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities, workforce readiness, creative development, and industry exposure for emerging participants and professionals.

Company has secured ownerships to publication company in UK-London. This company owns all the copyrights and trademarks of Ms. Hetal’s every published, documented word, incl this blog!

Transparency, accountability, and structured operational practices continue to remain central to the organization’s philosophy and long-term growth strategy.

Official Program & Organizational References

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

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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 Grace And Grooves LLC discontinued Better Business Bureau of Dallas Fortworth.

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Why Grace And Grooves LLC discontinued Better Business Bureau of Dallas Fortworth : 

Loved, loved and loved the services and perks that we received from BBB, A Better Business Bureau. Past 2 years has been an amazing ride with them with all the wonderful services, workshops and knowledge that they offer for small businesses like Grace And Grooves LLC.

It is when you suddenly realize that you are the only Indian Company offering exclusive indian folk dance classes apart from bollywood and not mix it up anywhere around, and that you are the only one with absolutely transparent background in all the programs that you offer from Bharatnatyam and Bollywood as well, it is a feature on our hats to be connected with BBB, A better Business Bureau.

The only problem that we faced was as we moved further in journey with them, we asked our parents and staff members to write something about how they feel about us on our little place that we earned it from Better Business Bureau as we were with A+ accreditation with them.

It seems like social media such as google, waze, facebook, twitter and instagram took over all of this when it came to customer feeling more at comfort talking about it. Our customers share such a fun and healthy relationship with us that it was better and easier for them to just write reviews over social medias instead of BBB boards.

From ethical grounds, quality of work, affordable services, beautiful costumes, non-allergic jewelry, arangetram preps, continued education in classical dances for various degrees and providing services as promised in the related programs, everything just ended up in social medias, recommendations, emails and text/sms messages.

And thus, we had to let go the better business bureau accreditation at-least until we get students/parents/customers who would not mind spending some time logging to these BBB boards to see our exclusive little place on their website and write something about us-good or bad!

That being said, we still enjoy attending their programs as we come across and available. We miss that tiny little icon of better business bureau and we hope that in near future, we can do something more with them and use them further for our services and products.

Grace And Grooves LLC shared A+ accreditation amongst the BBB businesses from 2016 to May 2018.

But that taught us to give you all what we do best :).

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Grace And Grooves Annual Updates By Hetal Nagaraj

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Grace And Grooves Annual Updates | Hetal Joshi M, Hetal Nagaraj.

For research students/art enthusiasts and for dance credit interns – Pls contact Ms. Hetal : Here OR here directly.

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Student of The Year….Updated Yearly!

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Grace And Grooves Group – Student Of The Year – Leadership Awards

This section of Blog is exclusively dedicated to all our students’ achievements with Grace And Grooves LLC. These are the students who take every opportunity to excel not only as part of team work but also as part of their individual growth and performances in their respective dance forms or types (if Bollywood-Movie Dances!). These students take regular classes just like all the other students but the only thing they do differently is identify the opportunities given to them by their teachers and make the best use of it. We also like to call them swans.

These students of Grace And Grooves are the examples of achieving balance in life, elegance, and beautiful results that you get with proper training at the right time from all the right people! There is no short-cuts to learning any dance forms/types. If you want to do it then you will do it, no matter what life throws at you! Times when they had lemons around, these students have made a lemonade and nailed it! All pictures below are subject to change if parents send us more pictures 🙂 But until then, enjoy what is posted.

It is not only the straight background that works with everything but also right time, right people, balance & right attitude that builds something that stays FOREVER…You do not have to come from generations of family to do it right.

2020 – 2021 : Aahana : 

  • whatsapp-image-2021-08-31-at-11.03.24-am-3Aahana is a student of Hetal Nagaraj Dance, Hetal Nagaraj from 2012 (she was almost 5 years old) for half dozen Indian Folk dances(100+ hours) & Bollywood(250+hr) & has taken several courses with Grace And Grooves Group of Dance Companies (350 +) hours with us in general. Aahana is a vivacious 11 year old from Frisco Texas. She’s a 6th grader in Frisco, Texas, USA. She is currently taking advance training of Kalaripayattu & Contemporary (surpassed 30+ hr NEW each) with Ms.Hetal(in-person) & Manoj Sir(online). She has won several city & state level non-voting competitions under Hetal Nagaraj nominating her for several state level participations and competitions. ALL of which were non-voting. Her other dance accomplishments include, city and state level bollywood, indian folk and semi-classical winning streaks with Hetal Nagaraj as part of company performances and submissions. Nominated several times for state level programs as well to come and perform but due to exam times, she could not go.
  • Aahana’s other accomplishments include several sports, educational, arts/drawing awards by grade and she won a honorary mention for her reflections art work at Ani Hols elementary school. Current Student at School of rock training in Vocals ( rock music ) Age 6 to 10. Her Facebook page was established in 2020 under the leadership & training of Hetal Nagaraj with Reachh Mediaa Reachh Since 2013.
  • Under Hetal Nagaraj, she also earned her first international award from Mumbai, India. See here.
  • She receives 300$ worth of prizes from our friends and participating companies. Yet another example set here!

2019-2020 : Sindhu Jampala :

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Sindhu Jampala comes with package, 2019-2020! Congratulations!!!

  • Ms. Sindhu started her trainings in August 2014 for recreational Bollywood classes in Irving, Texas under Hetal Nagaraj when she was mother of 1. Later, she was trained with Ms. Deepthi & Hetal together.
  • She started her journey with her full time IT job, at times on-call and all the other family commitments. Performing and then graduating after being “a mother of 2” NOW. She has participated in lot of our recitals, dance productions and has been part of our growing family! From Sarvaa 2019, she has been contributing towards company shows by being choreographer for her own kids team with full responsibility from start to finish under the leadership of Hetal Nagaraj.
  • Lot of her dances were selected for form/Bharatanatyam/folk category even when submitted in open category only because we had used Bollywood song but organizers moved us!! While others were pure bollyhop and fun dances that she continues to do today with her teams. With their Irving & Carrollton teams, they made it to several local non-voting competitions for Bollywood categories & a few reality dance competitions across cities for bollywood traditional to bollyhop.
  • Read about her trainings at Grace And Grooves.
  • She receives gift hampers and services worth of 250$ from our friends and participating companies. Sindhu has set an example for lot of our full time working young mommies with extended families that there will be a year that’s going to be mine from start to finish :). She finally took it in 2019-2020 with family. #respect.

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2018-2019 : Aanya Kocchar :

  • Ms. Aanya Kocchar joined Grace And Grooves as an exclusive Bharatnatyam Student in 2015 when we started teaching structured Bharatnatyam Program at Lewisville, Texas under the guru-shishya parampara with Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj exclusively.
  • When it comes to balancing life with education, performing arts and all the other activities that kids have to take up today just to achieve normal expectancy as per school curriculum, it has never been easy! 
  • As per our Student of the year criteria, she has been an excellent role model to all our younger Bharatanatyam dancers who will look upon her an example going forward. Never Give Up because learning an art-form is never easy and there are NO SHORT-CUTS.
  • Aanya has performed with Grace And Grooves in several in-house dance productions with her exclusive Bharatnatyam Dances without forsaking fundamentals of her own art-form Bharatanatyam for all our recitals, community events as well as exclusively Hetal Nagaraj’s dance productions.
  • Her notable dances are Bharatnatyam Nruthyam-Gujarati Sahitya Dance Duet (Literature) and Hetal Nagaraj’s Master Degree university level work of exclusive Bharatnatyam-Pushpanjali, and Allaripu(main margam items). She continues to learn her next level in Bharatnatyam at Lewisville, Texas with Mrs. Hetal Nagaraj and is now a 5th Grader. We are so proud of you!
  • Nominated twice for International Gujarati Culture Awards as well as community awards and earned her place in gifted folk programs at Nruthyakala Folk Dance Academy.
  • She receives $200 worth of services from our partners and friend-businesses to excel in her interest in the journey of Bharatanatyam. One Step At A Time, Nice And Easy. Updated : Jan 11, 2019.
  • Aanya was student from March 2015 to November 1, 2019.
    • During Jatiswaram Level from Mid-August 2019 onwards, she started coming once a month only which was slowing down entire batch. Student was unable to attend minimum 4 classes a month/do any other make-up classes/take any other private classes to catch up to her class-mates or atleast take other parallel classes;all of which was given well-ahead of time as per convinience of all parents. Parents were contacted regularly every month about the absences via emails/phones-sms and calls. Parents were regularly requested to move to slower pace class or lower level class (just to keep it going until she is ready for her batch) which did not happen either.
    • Later, in November 1, 2019 when their payment plan ended and it was time to renew, parents were requested to renew their payment plan only when student is able to attend classes regularly or choose any of options above or do private classes for good.  This schedule expectation of regularly attending the class for this accelerated-level is excluding holiday schedules or extra practice schedules or makeup class schedules. All of these instructions are given well-ahead of time at the beginning of year itself. It is our policy from past 15 years!
    • Updated : December 26, 2020. Aanya was in accelerated class of year-round lessons with full holiday schedule and dates provided well ahead of time as per full time – working – parents – holiday schedule. We are year round dance school.

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  • His first dance was a valentine dance with girl at the age of 3.5 where he showed his ability to act, dance & make people laugh/smile by showing his natural dance skills, dance etiquettes that were taught to him by his Montessori teachers.
  • Stage presence was natural to him just like his sister.
  • Our little macho man had his struggles of taking breaks in learning dance because of his birth weight, body type but he never gave up. 
  • From a husky body type to making his body a lean-mean fat-burning machine, he has amazed us of what he could do with proper training, discipline and diet plans that his mom prepares for him.
  • His official journey of dance training in Indian Folk Dances started at the age of 6, Bharatnatyam at the age of 7, Bollywood at the age of 7 and then he never looked back! Prior to these years, he would appear on stage as side/back stage-dancer.
  • Amongst all our girls, at times he is the only Krishna, Shiva, captain, our Rahul who comes to save the day for lot of our group dances even when he is not dancing for full song. At times he is not instructed of what he needs to do except for dance steps if they were to match with group..it comes out naturally to him, without training and knowledge of dance forms/styles.(Environment)
  • From group dance dramas to Solo(s) in Bharatnatyam, Indian Folk Dances and Bollywood/Movie Dances, he has done it all. He has successfully performed, competed and won competitions as solo artist from 2nd place to 3rd place with only 1 hour a week of dance lessons.
  • His training teachers are : Buvaneshwari Murugan(Jatiswaram, Ganesh Kavtuvam) & Hetal Nagaraj (Pushpanjali, Allaripu, Jatiswaram, Thillana, Shabhdam, Bho-Shamboo and several dance dramas from Gujarati Literature to Telugu Literature) for Bharatanatyam, Indian Folk Dances-Hetal Nagaraj, Bollywood-Hetal Nagaraj and Mansi Chauhan.
  • His workshops include : Intermediate-Advance Workshop with Shakti Mohan-2015.
  • He is a perfect example of perseverance, inherited natural talent, stage presence and a best example for kids who feel like giving up, only because of body-type.
  • He receives photo-shoots worth $250, competition discounts and several other perks from our participating businesses.
  • His Facebook page was established in 2019 under the leadership & training of Hetal Nagaraj with Reachh Mediaa Reachh Since 2013. Read More About Samarth Setty.
  • Updated-Feb 13-2018, Sept 1-2021.

Ashna Pethe – 2016-2017

  • From recreational dancer(Age-10) to now our elite team dancer and this years’ 1st

    Ashna Pethe Student of the Year

    Congratulations! Student of The Year 2016!!

    prize winner in Non-Classical-Category(Bollywood). Lewisville-Texas. Now 13.

  • Locations of Workshops, Performances & Competitions : Southlake-Texas, Irving-Texas, Dallas-Texas, Lewisville-Texas, Frisco-Texas, Plano-Texas, Carrollton-Texas.
  • Ashna won A $200 gift hamper that includes a photo-shoot and a FREE professional profiling and several free perks from Grace And Grooves LLC.
  • A perfect example of no short-cuts to success and yet balancing it beautifully with unbeatable graceful performances. 
  • She has bagged 1st place in non-classical category and has cleared several competitions in state of Texas. (Update-September 29, 2017).
  • Ashna dances 1-2 hours a week Bollywood at Elite Level w/Elite Team for Grace And Grooves, paid and unpaid performances.
  • She has taken advance workshops with Hetal Nagaraj, Mansi Chauhan And Shakti Mohan for Indian Folk Dances, Professional Bharatnatyam, Professional Kathak and Contemporary. 
  • Her Facebook page was established in 2019 under the leadership & training of Hetal Nagaraj with Reachh Mediaa Reachh Since 2013. Coming Soon About Ashna Pethe.
  • Updated Sept 1-2021.

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Congratulations! Student of the year 2015!!

Diya Kadiyala, 2015-2016.

  • First Indian Folk Dance Solo Artist under the age of 5 (under official company name Grace And Grooves other than Nirja Setty) successfully performed 3.2 minute of Indian Folk Dance. Twice!!
  • Audience : 100 People. Selected/Cleared Auditions for 2 different competitions in 2015. Irving-Texas. Age 4.5. Now 6.
  • Locations of Performances : Irving-Texas, Dallas-Texas, Frisco-Texas.
  • You are a perfect example of following directions just as taught at such a young age that too in Indian Folk Dances.
  • Diya took Free private classes(2) worth $50 during the regular classes. A Free costume rental on our elite line of costumes and a waive off on registration fees for second year. ($30).

Student of the Year 2015

Congratulations!! Student of the year 2014

 Nirja Setty, 2014-2015.

  • Winner of 6 (now 6) technique focused Indian Dance Competitions in Indian Folk Dances, Fusion and Bharatnatyam(2016). 
  • Nirja won Free Costumes and Jewelry from one of our friend-sponsors worth $100. Free Tickets to concert-$30.
  • A girl known to challenge judges’ knowledge in competitions as compared to her age group. Irving, Lewisville-Texas. Age 9. NOW 11. 
  • You are a perfect example of perfect expressions/looks in Indian Performing arts-anytime a picture is taken and yet it just as graceful and beautiful. All of this with a beautiful balance in life!
  • Her average competition prize money amounted to $200-$300 by 2015 in various school competitions for Bharatnatyam and Indian Folk Dances. Her audience is not less than 1000 people for the dances she has performed.
  • Nirja regularly dances 1-hour a week in : Bharatnatyam(in 2 styles), Bollywood and Indian Folk Dances with Hetal Nagaraj and Alpana Jacob (outside Grace And Grooves LLC).
  • Locations of Workshops, Performances & Competitions : Southlake-Texas, Irving-Texas, Dallas-Texas, Lewisville-Texas, Frisco-Texas, Plano-Texas, Carrollton-Texas, Allen-Texas, Coppell-Texas, Grapevine-Texas, Flowermound-Texas, Arlington-Texas.
  • She has taken advance workshops with Mansi Chauhan, Hetal Nagaraj and Shakti Mohan for Professional Kathak and Contemporary. She has also danced National Level Competition Fogana 2013 w/Indu Mangrola-Sursangam Dance Company. 
  • Her Facebook page was established in 2019 under the leadership & training of Hetal Nagaraj with Reachh Mediaa Reachh Since 2013. Read More About Nirja Setty.
  • Updated-Sept 1-2021.

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Congratulations!! Student of the year 2013!!

Srinija Burra, 2013-2014 :

  • Outstanding Recreational Indian Folk Dance Artist – (Solo) Recreational Folk Program.
  • Audiences from 100 to 500 People. Irving-Texas. Age 6. NOW 11.
  • Srinija won Free Customized Costumes from our elite line of costumes and Free Tickets to performances worth $75.
  • Won competitions with Grace And Grooves LLC as in group for Indian Folk Dances held Dallas-Texas at Coppell-Texas, Plano-Texas, Allen-Texas.
  • Locations of Performances & Competitions : Southlake-Texas, Irving-Texas, Dallas-Texas, Lewisville-Texas, Frisco-Texas, Plano-Texas, Carrollton-Texas, Allen-Texas, Coppell-Texas, Grapevine-Texas, Flowermound-Texas, Arlington-Texas.
  • Selected in several auditions and competitions for Solos. Selected by several media and top-notch family/event/corporate-dance and professional photographers for individual profiling/close-ups during our community performances without our telling them or informing them. She was also part of Fusion team being an avid gymnasts student. Click here : 
  • You are a perfect example of perfect expressions/looks anytime a picture is taken and yet it just as graceful and beautiful.

Congratulations to ALL our students of the year! 

Thank you for working hard with us…

This post will be updated once a year. Our academic year goes from August To May.

Post Updated History : This Post was First Published on this Blog on September 25, 2017.

Pictures posted above are either past or present students of Grace and Grooves & their pictures are shared based on their exclusive photo sharing rights and approved by parents when shared/transferred to Grace And Grooves for the purpose of Grace and Grooves ONLY.  
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Competitions Counted On Our Lists :

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The Competitions & Performances that we go have Judges with following qualifications with full transparency required for students to be eligible such as submitting videos, pictures, program specs, and all the other details :

  1. Degrees in Performing Arts (Indian for Indian Dances),
  2. Straight Background With Full Proof & Traceability,
  3. Versatile Dancers In Their Genre  – Non Stop Stage Dancers.
  4. Full Hands-Onn w/Knowledge From Right Sources ( traceable background or universities-not the universities such as gandharv.)

Competitions We Do :

As such we have won several competitions but we have only accounted in our bags that we have done it independently ourselves and have judges who are qualified in field of Indian Performing Arts-who know what to look for in dance forms or styles, if mentioned likewise.

  • Non-Voting, Strict by Genre, Category, Dance Forms, Rules of Dance Form, Rubrics, Guidelines, Marks and Feedbacks by Judges with straight background, Local or International Depending on all of above.
  • Competitions in partnership with other dance schools/teachers are NOT INCLUDED in our list.
  • We do not sponsor the awards or competitions that we take part in. Please contact hetal at mail2hets@gmail.com for sponsorships.
  • We do not do reality competitions YET. These are not institutionalized or educational competitions.
  • Competitions where voting criteria is 10/100 or more at any levels are not included in our list. You are welcome to take freelance lessons from us to participate but we will not participate in voting. We will not take those on our list.
  • Judges who do not have any knowledge of dance or cannot outline the difference between simple things such as bollywood vs folk, fusion vs bollywood, and so on! If you do not know the rules of dance form then there is no point in judging. And so, we do not take part in those competitions.
  • Participant Awards are NOT listed or considered for us-obviously and that includes students who get participant awards during competitions just for participating and not winning competitions for any runner ups awards either. Culture awards are not competition awards 🙂
  • Wins at the Competitions that misrepresented categories/competitions/malrepresentation by the organizers are NOT listed.
    • Eg-Represented as Indian FOLK Competition but it was actually a Bollywood Competition and so they are NOT LISTED HERE. We have won such competitions as well.
    • Only legitimate competitions are listed.
    • We DO NOT teach Tap/Jazz/Ballet. Students who took part in fusion dances that included tap/jazz or ballet were trained from Ballet Academy of Texas(Coppell) and Prestige Dance Company(Lewisville-former Coppell Dance Center)for 2months+ or were already avid trained dancers or good gymnasts.
      • We taught them only Indian Classical Dance(Bharatnatyam)or Indian Folk Dance and the Fusion work to go together based on what they knew.
    • Some competitions are listed together as only 1 award was given for consecutive years win or in same year as prizes had material gifts/or gift cards for participants or same work received awards in 2 different places by different participants or same participants. There was only 1 ceremony for awards that happened.
    • Competitions that are not worth our attention –>
      • Students are neglected, mis-treated, insulted by organizers are NOT worth of our time. We will pass their info-you are welcome to compete but keep us out of it.
      • Organizers are in favor of other dance schools and allowed several re-takes to them but not to us-for no good reason are NOT worth our time. We DO NOT want children to go through that traumatic experiences.
      • Students are questioned about their well-being priorities only because organizer couldn’t see the child winning in-spite of stopping the vote entries are NOT worth of your child’s time.
      • Organizers that offer inappropriate stage areas, dressing room areas or unsafe dance conditions are eliminated from our list for any future participations due to SAFETY GUIDELINES concerning child’s safety. We don’t come there to dance in 5-8 steps of stage area.
      • A stage or organizer who cannot respect a child’s presence while talking just about anything that they have in mind insulting kids and their parents whatsoever, esp. talking in extremely loud voice and misbehaving in front of children because you couldn’t handle pressures (while others were allowed to do same-all drama in front of child)-is not worth our attention.

Please learn your manners FIRST when you treat a child.

Stop treating them like trash — this tells us about your parenting! Not our parents’.

      • An organizer who is bias to us in all the privileges given to other participants will not need our attention at any given point of time. If you have made up your mind in not allowing us to avail the privileges then why should we make kids suffer through your misconduct and inappropriate behavior just for a trophy ?

Constructive feedbacks are very welcomed. We have come this far only because of constructive feedbacks. Please tell us your background before you judge!

All of above are NOT sarcastic humor incidents and are ruled out by experiences in recent competitions and we do not want any child to face such a traumatic experience just for a competition! Our kids/students are very precious to us. 

Other Blog Posts where such a traumatic incident happened : Read Here.

Stop blaming parents and kids for your own issues. Open Stats @Cqunce Inc.

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