BHARATNATYAM
Dance Tantra offers Bharatanatyam classes in Thanjavur bani to curious dancers from all levels and ages to help nurture their talent, skill, and training into perfection and creativity.
We encourage Bharatanatyam exams before the summer holiday and the grand annual recital at the beginning of the winter to all students. We also do Salangai Puja during our Academy's annual basant-panchami Saraswati puja in mid-winter.
We have the following levels of group classes:
- Basic Technique Level: This is the very start of your training. On average, it usually takes a couple of years to complete basic adavu classes.
- Intermediate Technique Level: After learning basic techniques, you will know the intermediate adavus level and theories and get introduced to invocatory items such as Pushpanjali.
- Advanced Technique Level: You will finish all advanced level adavus at all speeds and get introduced to more complicated invocatory numbers such as Alarippu, Todeyamangalam, Kautvam, etc.
- Margam Intermediate Level: You will be introduced to more complex pieces such as keerthanam, Jwatiswaram, Shabdam, and Thillana. Students will also learn the mathematical annotations and meaning of the lyrics in detail.
Please click the following links for further details.
ARANGETRAM (Special private classes)
At the arangetram (graduation recital) level, the students will be at least in a two-year planning cycle on a 1:1 basis. We plan the pieces, assess students' physical capabilities, and explore family heritage and routes. We encourage exposure to smaller solo events and international master artists in the final year. We usually teach existing traditional or brand-new choreography based on the student's capability and the family's budget. I take pride in going above and beyond for a student's arangetram journey from planning to final execution as a memory to cherish for her life.
Post arangetram students assist in the Academy's group lessons and participate in Artistic Director Smt—Piyali Biswas's innovative and creative productions.
To find out more about the dancers who completed arangetrams and will be performing their arangetrams this year. Please click the follwoing link
