Online Bharatanatyam Classes in Ireland
Bharatanatyam online, with the teacher watching the feet
Most children who give up Bharatanatyam give up in the second year, when the items get harder and the aramandi underneath them was never really built. A recorded video can show a child the steps of an alarippu. It cannot see that the knees have drifted inwards or that the heels are lifting, and a habit like that, repeated for a year, is very hard to undo.
Enquire about classes in Ireland
Add the student’s name and your number, then continue on WhatsApp or call us. We’ll come back with the next available slot for Ireland.
We usually reply within the hour
Bharatanatyam online, with the teacher watching the feet
Our online batches are live and small, and every child dances with the whole body in frame. The teacher watches the posture, the feet and the hands and corrects them during the adavu, not at the end of the month. It is the same Kalakshetra-style syllabus we teach in person at HSR Layout, so families in Ireland learn the dance properly rather than a simplified version for the screen.
Ireland’s Indian community has grown quickly over the last two decades, carried largely by doctors and nurses in the health service — many of them from Kerala — and by engineers in Dublin’s tech sector. Most of these families are the first generation abroad, which means the grandparent who would once have taught shlokas is usually a video call away rather than down the hall.
Live teaching with cameras on, never a library of recorded videos
The aramandi and adavus built first, in the traditional order
Every adavu danced in three speeds, so rhythm is never bolted on later
Mudras taught with their meanings, not only their shapes
Batch timings for Ireland
Live classes on GMT, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Ireland keeps UK time, so the same after-school weekday window works here: 4:30 to 6:30 PM Irish time, which is 9:00 to 11:00 PM in India in winter and an hour earlier in summer. Saturday morning batches run too. Families working hospital shifts can move between batches week to week.
Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick are where most Indian families in Ireland live. Irish families usually sit in the same batches as UK children, since the clock is identical.
What your child walks away able to do
The main adavu families danced cleanly to the sollukattu
The asamyukta and samyukta hastas named and used with meaning
A first complete item, usually the alarippu, danced end to end
Inside the online bharatanatyam classes curriculum
A few of the modules a year of online bharatanatyam classes covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Setting Up the Space
- 02Namaskaram and Aramandi
- 03The Adavu Families
- 04Hastas and Their Meanings
Three simple steps to begin
1. Tell us about your child
Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For online bharatanatyam classes that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to what they can already do.
2. Personal guidance from a mentor
A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.
3. Pick a slot that survives the school week
We place your child in a batch built for GMT. Ireland keeps UK time, so the same after-school weekday window works here: 4:30 to 6:30 PM Irish time, which is 9:00 to 11:00 PM in India in winter and an hour earlier in summer.
“Timezone was our biggest worry. Smriti Samskara made it effortless, the Mahabharata class fits perfectly into our London evenings, and the storytelling quality is simply exceptional.”
Online Bharatanatyam Classes in Ireland, FAQs
Yes, if the class is live and the teacher can see the whole body. Batches stay small, the camera is set up in the first class, and corrections happen during the adavu. Families across Ireland learn this way with us every week.
Other classes for Ireland
Online Bharatanatyam Classes elsewhere