Online Bharatanatyam Classes in the USA
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 the USA
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 the USA.
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 the USA learn the dance properly rather than a simplified version for the screen.
The USA is our largest community outside India, and it is spread across four time zones, which shapes everything about how we schedule. Most families who write to us are second-generation parents whose own Sanskrit came from a grandparent, and who have realised their children have no equivalent person to learn it from.
Live teaching with cameras on, never a library of recorded videos
The aramandi and adavus built first, in the traditional order
Kalakshetra-style technique, clean lines and precise footwork
Batches small enough that every child is corrected in every class
Batch timings for the USA
Live classes on PST/EST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekend mornings Eastern and Pacific are the two slots that fill first, because they land in the Indian evening and work for both coasts. Weekday batches run at 6:30 to 8:00 PM local on the East Coast. We do not ask a child in California to attend at 5 AM, and if the only slot we can offer you is a bad one we will say so.
Families join us from the Bay Area, New Jersey, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago in the largest numbers. Several batches have ended up entirely North American, which children like, they are learning alongside others in exactly the same position.
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
The asamyukta and samyukta hastas named and used with meaning
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
- 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 PST/EST. Weekend mornings Eastern and Pacific are the two slots that fill first, because they land in the Indian evening and work for both coasts.
“Living in California, we worried our kids would lose their roots. The online Shloka and Gita classes changed that. They chant every morning now, and understand what the words mean.”
Online Bharatanatyam Classes in the USA, 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 the USA learn this way with us every week.
Other classes for the USA
Online Bharatanatyam Classes elsewhere