
An Award-Wining Indian Dance Institute Promoting
Multidisciplinary Dances of India in Dallas Fortworth Texas, USA
Grace And Grooves Group Of Companies (G-1) by Hetal Joshi M
Fun With Fundamentals©
Launched in 1994 as drama artist. Estd. 1999. Regd 2012
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Our Graduates : We LOVE THIS!
Students who have fully completed their trainings with us in dance programs or strictly by exams.
Year mentioned is year of completion or winning a non-voting indian dance competition in 1st 3 prizes or clear our exams with full theory.
Dance on this page is always in progress....And here is where our drama is !
Celebrating more than a decade of non-stop winning 1st 3 prizes in non-voting Indian Dance Competitions in DFW(10years), KS, MO, MI, Texas.
Some Bharatanatyam-Indian Folk Dances Finals/Competitions in India (In-person when students visit or from March 2020 - via online submissions)
CONGRATULATIONS --- NEW Winners OF VARIOUS In-house Awards, Outside Local/National & International AWARDS - Non - Voting
The only dance school in ALL genres & categories to have graduates where all dance techniques are used as they are supposed to be used by dance pieces!
Meet Our National Level Students by Genre : Samarth Setty, Nirja Setty, Ashna Pethe....
Bharatanatyam
Indian Folk Dances
Those who have completed their full Bharatanatyam Margam back to back(2-3 hours) in one or more shows exclusively with Grace And Grooves LLC or with Hetal Nagaraj or any other teachers of Grace And Grooves. They may do Solo Arangetram, if they wish to do it.
Open to public :
Those who have completed a full program on types of indian folk dances per state or region with at-least 2 or more styles in each indian folk dance form with/without props from recreational programs to competitions with full theory and all year round dance lessons.
Open to public :
Bollywood
Tollywood / Filmy Dances
Those who have completed all our requirements and successfully performed all our levels of Bollywood, Tollywood/Indian Movie Dances..
Open to public :
All Teaching, Classes, Techniques, Curriculam & Lesson Plans, Teacher, Choreography, Costumes, Direction, Production, Lights, Theme, Stage-Setup, Ownership By Hetal Nagaraj unless otherwise mentioned.
All Programs are seperate and individually taught. Seperate signups are required | (list of skills is given!)
Yearly programs on regular basis with graduates in each, by genre :
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Regular Monthly Programs - Once a week regular class programs. Graduates - Coming Soon.
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40 Hr Holidays Workshops by Genre
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100 Hr Diploma Course Grads by Genre
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Texas All Star Talent Graduates by Genre
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Bharatanatyam Certification Course : Students of other teachers in DFW, Texas, USA
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Creative Bharatanatyam Program Grads.
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Model Training - Institutional | Educational | Commercial | Professional
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Mommy & Me Graduates Dances
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External Education/Refreshers Students : Masters Program Only (Dance)
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25 Hour - Dance Crash Course Program FOR INTERMEDIATES & UP
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Bootcamps & Workshops - Courses By Our Company
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Theater/Theatre/Drama Graduates
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Dance Drama Graduates : By Hetal Nagaraj unless otherwise mentioned. (Not Dance Musicals).
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International Teachers Training Intensive (For Teachers, Educators, Dance Instructors or Interns from other Institutes
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12 to 16 Hour Exclusive Indian Folk Dance Workshops Students (includes lok nruthya/community or festival folk):
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12 to16 Hour Exclusive Bollywood Workshops Students: - once a week
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Summer Programs ( May-Sept once a week class with all major holidays)
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Weekly Holiday Camps - Work in progress.
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12 hours Exclusive Bharatanatyam Workshops
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10 hours Exclusive Kathak-Basics-Beginners Only workshops
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4 hours Exclusive Festival / Community Indian Folk Dance (Lok Nruthya) Younger than 18 years
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2 hours Exclusive Festival / Community Indian Folk Dance (Lok Nruthya) 18 + & Adults
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Sound, Mcee, Music Ages 10+ Only.
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Exclusive G2 Dance Factory Arlington, Graduates.
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Photography Videography Graduates For The Grace Effects
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52 Hr (1 hr once a week) Program Graduates By Genre - Coming Soon!
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72 Hr (1.5 hr once a week) Program Graduates by Genre - Coming Soon!
Projects before 2013 Coming Soon! External Workshop Activities : Click Here.
**Bharatanatyam :
Other students or interns or teachers who have completed their entire margam or main items of Bharatanatyam margams in different programs for us are : Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty(from 2013), Samarth Setty(2015), Tejaswini K(2019). They perform regularly in any or all of the margam items in productions as required.
With us (exclusively with Hetal Nagaraj itself ), students are celebrating their 250th, 450th hour Bollywood, 350th or 400th hour in Indian Folk Dances (once week), 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.
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Students with 1000+ hours of Bharatanatyam have completed their Arangetram online or in-person or LIVE. Check Our Graduates Our Diploma & Master Level Graduates.
Graduate Students : Hetal Nagaraj has 100s of Graduates just in USA and has instructed / taught 2500+ students all over in India & USA by 2020 March by genre & curriculam.
Workshop Students : Hetal Nagaraj has given workshops to 50 to 2000 students - at a time, in DFW-Texas, USA 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.