Online Bharatanatyam Classes in London
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 London
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 London.
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 London learn the dance properly rather than a simplified version for the screen.
London is our largest catchment in the UK and the easiest timezone abroad for us to teach into — the Indian evening is the London afternoon, so a weekday class after school genuinely works here in a way it does not in California.
Live teaching with cameras on, never a library of recorded videos
Mudras taught with their meanings, not only their shapes
Kalakshetra-style technique, clean lines and precise footwork
Batches small enough that every child is corrected in every class
Batch timings for London
Live classes on GMT/BST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 4:30 to 7:00 PM UK, straight after school, plus Saturday mornings. British Summer Time shifts the offset by an hour twice a year and we adjust the batch rather than asking families to.
Harrow, Wembley, Croydon, Slough, Hounslow and Ilford are where we hear from most. Many London parents already send a child to a weekend cultural class and come to us specifically for the Sanskrit pronunciation work.
What your child walks away able to do
A steady aramandi held through a full sequence of adavus
The main adavu families danced cleanly to the sollukattu
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
- 02Hastas and Their Meanings
- 03First Items
- 04Online Showcase
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/BST. Weekday 4:30 to 7:00 PM UK, straight after school, plus Saturday mornings.
“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 London, 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 London learn this way with us every week.
Other classes for London
Online Bharatanatyam Classes elsewhere