Kalarathna School Of Music & Dance

Our school is located in Srirampuram, on the 7th Main near the 2nd Cross. It’s a simple building, No. 46/3, and we are very close to the Chowdeshwari Temple. You can usually hear the temple bells throughout the day while the students are practicing. The floors are worn down because of all the feet dancing on them over the years. We have a few rooms where the music classes happen, and you can hear the sounds of different instruments mixing together in the hallway. It’s not a fancy academy with air conditioning; we just have the windows open and the fans going. The kids from the neighborhood come by after school, and it gets quite noisy with all the chatter. We spend a lot of time tuning instruments or sweeping the floors between classes. There is a small area where parents sit and wait. We keep the schedules pinned to a corkboard by the door. It’s a local place and we’ve been part of this community for a long time. The teachers are just regular people who love what they do. We don't have a big marketing budget or anything like that. People usually find us because they live nearby or heard about us from a neighbor. It’s a humble place, just dedicated to the arts. We spend our evenings teaching and our mornings cleaning up and getting ready for the next group of students.