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Adi Poojya
An early full-ensemble work, filmed from the back of the hall — one long tableau, with most of the school on stage at once.
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Twenty years,
in motion.
Photographs hold a pose. They cannot hold a jathi, or a raga, or the moment a student finishes her varna and finds her breath. For that we keep a channel.
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Sri Krishna Vilaasa
One of the dance dramas conceived in this house — the Krishna story told in Bharatanatyam, danced by the senior students, with Vidwan M. S. Naveen’s composition and voice carrying it.
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Original productions
Dance dramas, and the craft inside them
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Ananda Nartana Ganapathi
The kriti that opens a great many margams, danced as it is taught here — an invocation to Ganapathi before anything else is attempted.
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4:40
Setting the hair, step by step
Vidushi Mithra Naveen’s own hands, filmed close, showing how the braid and the jada are dressed before a performance. Costume is abhinaya too.
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The debut
Rangapravesha
Thirty-seven students have made their debut from this school. Each one is filmed whole, and each one is a different dancer — which is rather the point of teaching one at a time. What the day actually asks of a student →
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Lakshya R
The most recent debut from the school, and the longest excerpt we have published — enough of the margam to see the training rather than the highlights.
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Nikhitha V R
A fortnight before Lakshya’s, on the same stage, with the same gurus at the nattuvangam and the vocal. Watch the two together and the house style shows.
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Sharvari Walimbe
Varna and thillana, the two ends of a margam — the first asking for stamina and manodharma, the last for pure nritta.
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The annual festival
Nada Nrityopasana
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Nada Mukula
The junior half of the festival — children two and three years into their adavus, on a proper stage, in front of a full hall. Everyone here started this way.
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The senior-most students
The vidwath batch — those sitting the highest university examination — dancing at the top of the same programme.
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Group nritta, in formation
A line of dancers holding one araimandi and one tala between them. Ensemble work is where a school’s teaching is hardest to hide.
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The other half of the house
Nadopasana, and the music stage
Music here is not accompaniment to the dancing. It has its own repertoire, its own examinations and its own concerts.
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Nadopasana
The students of the music side, from the sarali varise batch up to the seniors, in the academy’s annual vocal concert.
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Rama Stories
A sangeetha roopaka — a theme-based vocal concert woven together with narration, in the form Vidwan M. S. Naveen has made the academy’s own. Set aside an evening.
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Naveen M. S. Andagar & Yeashas N. Kashyap
The guru singing beside his own son. The transmission this school talks about is, in the end, exactly this ordinary.
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Beyond the class hour
The gurus, at work
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Padavarna
Vidushi Mithra Naveen dancing the longest and most demanding item in the margam, to Vidwan Naveen’s voice. Half an hour, unedited.
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54:20
Understanding Bharatanatyam
An hour with a hall of schoolchildren who have never seen the form up close — the hastas, the nava rasas, and why the feet are turned out.
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The same hour, taken further out
The academy runs this session in government schools as well, at no cost. The room is different; the material is not.
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Deeper in
Everything else is on the channel, sorted into playlists.
- Rangapraveshams 38 videos — every debut from this school since 2011
- The fifteenth-year concerts 57 videos — a chamber and virtual concert for each senior student, filmed through 2021 and 2022
- Vidwan M. S. Naveen in concert 11 videos — kritis, devaranamas and vachanas
- Vidushi Mithra Naveen, solo 8 videos — the guru’s own dancing
- Nada Nrityopasana 8 videos — the annual festival, 2012 to 2025
- Monthly music concerts 4 videos — the smaller in-house programmes
- Workshops 2 videos — Bharatanatyam taken into schools
Your turn
Every one of these began with a first class.
We take students from around age five, with no prior training expected — and we teach adults and overseas learners online.