Yuni Shastri

Tara Shastri is an Indian Classical dancer specializing in Bharatanatyam. She has completed her Visharad, Nipun, Bachelors of Music, Masters of Music (Gold Medalist) from Bhatkhande University, Lucknow, Asia’s biggest university for classical music and dances. In these 10 years of her education in dance she also developed her own style comparising of different indian and western dance forms. While studing dance she continued her professional career as a choreographer for national programmes for Doordarshan and various other shows and also continued teaching dance, of which she has an experience of more than 15 years now with more than 5000 pupils already being trained under her guidance and numerous winning in dance shows like Sony’s Boogie Woogie to name a few. She herself has done more than 200 shows, won more than 150 dance competitions and judged around 70 odd dance competitions across India. Apart from dance she has also acted in stage plays and tele movies as a lead actor including a couple with Producer-Director Ketan Mehta and Deepa Mehta.

Tara Shastri founded the Indo-Western Dance, Music & Arts Academy (TSDMAA) in 2001, which later came to be known as Tara Shastri Dance Music & Arts Academy (TSDMAA). She has based technical and choreographic innovation on a sound traditional training in dance. Continuing this tradition, TSDMAA remains one of the premier professional dance and arts schools both in terms of training and choreographic invention. Central to our mission is that we are one of only handful of schools that treat Indian and Western Dance & Music as full and equal studies.

The School sustains an ethos and environment in which a young dancer & musician can work with seriousness, sensitivity and in protection. Through a highly intense nurturing process of education and training, the School provides the opportunity for students to reach a profound level of professional and personal accomplishment. It allows each dancer and musician to realize the depth of his or her experiential and expressive potential as a person and as an artist.

TSDMAA is an affiliate of the WCS. The WCS was established in 2001 to secure the future of the very best vocational training in dance, drama, music and arts at a number of specialist schools. TSDMAA is an education institution and one of a handful of specialist conservatoires within India.

TSDMAA is dedicated to the personal growth & achievement of every student.

We are pleased to offer our students a professional, comfortable environment for training in dance. Our aim is to enhance the lives of all who learn with us and while we shall demand from each student, whether or not a dance and music career is planned, the best effort of which he or she is capable, we shall give in return the care and attention that each student deserves.

The discipline of Bharatnayam challenges the student physically and mentally. It is the foundation for any type of dance and enhances flexibility and control for any athlete. Our school stresses and importance of a correct foundation so that students have the opportunity to develop skills to their maximum potential.