Alaknanda Academy Of Dance Music

We are the Alaknanda Academy Of Dance Music on Alaknanda Main Road. It is a busy street and finding parking is always a bit of a nightmare for the parents. We have been in this same building for quite some time now. You can hear the sounds of the bells on the dancers' ankles from down the hall. It is a lot of hard work and sweat, honestly. The rooms are basic, with wooden floors and some mirrors that probably need a good cleaning more often than they get one. We don't have a big fancy lobby or a bunch of staff in suits. Usually, it is just one of us sitting at the front desk with a cup of tea, trying to keep the schedule straight. Students come in after their regular school day. They look tired but then they start the music and things change. We teach traditional steps and some instruments too. It gets really humid in the monsoon, and the instruments sometimes go out of tune because of the damp air. We just fix them and keep going. It is not a glamorous life, but it is what we do every day. People around here know us as the place that makes all the noise in the afternoons. We like the neighborhood, even with all the traffic and the dust from the road construction that never seems to end. It feels like home to us now.