I’ve been teaching dance since I was 18. Over the past 25 years, I have had all age groups in classes, from the lively 3-year-old girl to the laid-back senior, from Swiss to Indian. I benefit from my experience every day in dance classes.
I started teaching at my parents’ dance school as a teenager and discovered there my passion for teaching. It quickly became clear to me that the dance profession comes with great responsibility toward my students. I take the dance profession very seriously and have spared no effort to train myself accordingly. I have supplemented my dance training with a degree in Indology and Pedagogy. After my doctoral thesis, I completed a diploma in physio-pedagogy at the Academy for Spiraldynamik®. Through this training and my experience as an artist, I have developed my own methodology in dance lessons, which I have been using successfully in my dance school for over six years.
My teaching team includes the following other teachers whom I coach in my teaching method:
Preeti Latha
As a child, Preethi learned the Tanjore style of Bharata Natyam under Guru Smt. Muthu in Coimbatore. After a break and a move from India to Switzerland, she continued her dance education under Guru Smt. Vijaya Rao. Despite her family and work life, she made her stage debut (Arangetram) in February 2019. Afterwards she continued her post grad training as a senior dancer and appeared in various stage productions. In recent years, she has grown a desire to teach and shape the next generation of dancers.
I have known Preethi since her time at Nateschwara Academy. She has an incredibly graceful posture, and you can see her love for dancing every step of the way. She is gentle and warm but has the keen eye needed to teach Bharata Natyam in its exactness. She hopes to inspire the students on this new journey as a dance teacher and make them fall in love with this dance as much as she did.
Other Teachers
In addition to teaching, the sustainable training of new teachers is very important to me. I am therefore very proud that advanced students of mine repeatedly express their interest in teaching themselves. These post-grad students with stage experience are technically very good, they just lack the pedagogical and didactic side to teach dance to beginners. They are trained by me in dance pedagogy. In co-teaching together with me they learn how Bharata Natyam is taught.
