TARA SHASTRI DANCE MUSIC AND ARTS ACADEMY

Tara Shastri is an Indian Classical dancer specializing in Bharatanatyam. She has completed her Visharad, Nipun, Bachelors of Music, Masters of Music (Gold Medalist) from Bhatkhande University, Lucknow, Asia’s biggest university for classical music and dances. In these 10 years of her education in dance she also developed her own style comparising of different indian and western dance forms. While studing dance she continued her professional career as a choreographer for national programmes for Doordarshan and various other shows and also continued teaching dance, of which she has an experience of more than 15 years now with more than 5000 pupils already being trained under her guidance and numerous winning in dance shows like Sony’s Boogie Woogie to name a few. She herself has done more than 200 shows, won more than 150 dance competitions and judged around 70 odd dance competitions across India. Apart from dance she has also acted in stage plays and tele movies as a lead actor including a couple with Producer-Director Ketan Mehta and Deepa Mehta.
The primary aim of the Department of Dance is to enrich the lives of majors, non majors community with diverse dance experiences. Dance is explored as an art form and as one of the humanities in a liberal-arts education. Study in dance as an academic discipline integrates inquiry and theory to develop skills in observation, critical thinking, problem solving, and evaluation. In addition to the academic components, dance students experience the rigorous professional discipline that is inherent in studio classes. The department emphasizes modern dance with a strong supporting area in ballet. Students may also study such idioms as Indian classical dance & western such as Bharatnatyam, folk, salsa tap, ethnic, improvisation, and ballroom.
Regardless of a student's career goals, education in dance at the indo western dance academy provides the opportunity to develop motivation and self-discipline, intellectual curiosity, and creative imagination. These attributes are essential not only for a successful career but also for experiencing a fulfilling life.

The School sustains an ethos and environment in which a young dancer & musician can work with seriousness, sensitivity and in protection. Through a highly intense nurturing process of education and training, the School provides the opportunity for students to reach a profound level of professional and personal accomplishment. It allows each dancer and musician to realize the depth of his or her experiential and expressive potential as a person and as an artist.
TSDMAA is an affiliate of the WCS. The WCS was established in 2001 to secure the future of the very best vocational training in dance, drama, music and arts at a number of specialist schools. TSDMAA is an education institution and one of a handful of specialist conservatoires within India.
We are pleased to offer our students a professional, comfortable environment for training in dance. Our aim is to enhance the lives of all who learn with us and while we shall demand from each student, whether or not a dance and music career is planned, the best effort of which he or she is capable, we shall give in return the care and attention that each student deserves.