Count it, feel it, then forget the count.

I started Bharatanatyam at five because my grandmother insisted, resented it until I was fourteen, and fell in love with it the first time I danced a piece I actually understood. That arc — resistance, then discipline, then joy — is exactly what I now walk my own students through, and it's why I never let a beginner quit in the resentment phase.

For fifteen years I've taught across the range: a temple-arts syllabus, a contemporary company's junior wing, and a school dance programme that sends a dozen students a year into serious training. I still perform, because a teacher who has left the stage forgets what she's asking of the ones still on it.

If your school or company wants a dance teacher who is a genuine performer, rigorous about technique, and able to move between classical and contemporary without dropping either, my show reel and references are ready. Give me your class that thinks it 'can't dance' — those are the ones I love to prove wrong.