Natya Mayuri Sudhachandran Dance Academy

Natya Mayuri Sudhachandran Dance Academy is located inside the Ashok Industrial Estate in Masoli, specifically on Lsb Marg. It’s a bit of a strange place for a dance school since we are surrounded by small workshops and factories. You can usually hear the sound of metal being cut or engines running from the units next door. We like it though, because it feels very real and unpretentious. The studio itself is just one of the industrial units that we’ve converted. We painted the walls and put up some mirrors, but you can still tell it was a warehouse before. The floor is sturdy, which is good for the heavy footwork of classical dance. We don't have a fancy lobby or a place for people to wait. Parents usually just stand outside in the lane or sit on their motorbikes until the class is over. It gets quite dusty because of all the industrial activity around us, so we have to mop the floor twice a day. We don't have any big corporate backers or anything like that. It’s just us doing our best to teach dance in an area where people are mostly focused on manual labor. Sometimes the power goes out in the whole estate, and we just keep dancing in the dark until it comes back. It’s a tough spot but it has a good spirit.