Bharatanatyam · Carnatic Music · Carnatic Keyboard
Since 2006
Founded in 2006, by Vid. Mithra Naveen & Vid. M S Naveen, Nadavidyalaya Academy of Music & Dance is dedicated to nuturing Indian Classical Arts. The academy offers training in Bharatanatyam, Carnatic classical music & Carnatic classical Keyboard, inspiring students to learn, perform & pursue their timeless traditions.
The academy
In Nadavidyalaya, under the guidance of distinguised Gurus, Vidwan M S Naveen and Vidushi Mithra Naveen We impart Bharatanatyam and Carnatic music as a spiritual sadhana through lived experience, shruti and direct anubhava in true Guru-Shishya Parampara.
What we teach
Complete practical and theoretical training, from the first adavu to a full-length solo margam.
Classical vocal from sarali varise upward, with devotional repertoire and concert practice.
The Carnatic system on the keyboard — gamaka, fingering and accompaniment for the classical stage.
The wider world an artist needs: folk forms, choreography, yoga and the stagecraft of a production.
The other half of the house
Theme-based vocal concerts, woven together with narration — conceived and directed by Vidwan M. S. Naveen for the academy's stage.
Music here is not accompaniment to the dancing. It is the other discipline taught in this house, with its own repertoire, its own examinations and its own stage.
Naveen holds the Vidwath in Carnatic classical vocal and is a graded artist of All India Radio. He has composed for and given voice to more than twenty dance dramas and over thirty arangetrams of Nadavidyalaya alone — which is why every production on this page is as much a music work as a dance one.
Every year, without fail
Our annual festival of music and dance, where every student performs — the four-year-old in her first jathi and the vidwath candidate closing the evening, on the same stage.
The youngest dancers. A first stage, a first audience, a first taste of what discipline buys you.
The youngest musicians — tiny tots of Carnatic vocal and keyboard.
Seniors and vidwath students, in full-length music and dance presentations.
Each year we also felicitate senior and veteran artists, so that our students meet the generation that carried this art to them.
Admissions
We take students from around age five, with no prior training expected — and we teach adults and overseas learners online. The first conversation costs nothing.
