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 Bharatanatyam and Carnatic music classes  starting from SEPTEMBER 20, 2010.  

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Parvatha Chidambaram is committed to using Bharatanatyam & Carnatic music to cater to diverse audiences and communities as well as to promote personal growth.  Through training classes, dance productions and music performances, Parvatha encourages a thoughtful and holistic approach to both art forms and as a vehicle for self-expression and a tool for community building.

This visual and performance art form aims to educate, entertain, and elevate the audience as well as the performers.  It is a theatrical exercise disciplining body and mind that leads to spirituality, and increase the quality of life amongst the younger generations....as the scriptures quote, "Naatyam bhakti vivardhanam".  

Parvatha has been teaching Bharatanatyam and music classes in Rochester, New York for over 9 years.   Her school, Bharata, offers beginner, intermediate, and master level classes in Bharatanatyam and music.  Her classes focus on providing rigorous training that enhances appreciation for Indian  dance and music.   Students are encouraged to see them as a living, breathing art form that requires inquiry and enables self expression.  Interpretations of song and music through gestures and bodily expressions communicate a range of messages from simple prayer to moralistic stories. Primary to this enterprise are the paths of physical discipline, mental devotion and spiritual dedication.