Childhood
6 years
Trained from 1st to 6th standard and took the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya exams through Bruhad Gujarat Sangeet Samiti, Ahmedabad, reaching the Visharad Pratham level.
भरतनाट्यम्
Jinal Mandalia · Bharatanatyam
The classical dance I grew up with, the rhythm I'm relearning, and the tools I'm building to bring technology into it.
My dance journey
Bharatanatyam taught me discipline, rhythm, and how to tell a story without words. After a long break, I'm back in training.
Trained from 1st to 6th standard and took the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya exams through Bruhad Gujarat Sangeet Samiti, Ahmedabad, reaching the Visharad Pratham level.
Kept dancing through school, performing prayer dances on stage.
Restarted with Artgharana, working toward completing my Visharad.
What I'm doing now
Back in class with Artgharana, building my foundation step by step.
How the Carnatic tala system works — talas, jaati, gati, and the three speeds.
Building tools that bring technology into Bharatanatyam — try them below.
Feel the rhythm
Eight beats: a Laghu of four, then two Drutams. Press play and keep the tala with your hand — clap on the dark beats, count your fingers on the gold, and wave on the hollow ones.
Free tools for dancers
Three small tools I built while learning. They run right in your browser — free, nothing to install.
All 35 Suladi Sapta talas with a player — pick tala, jaati, gati and speed, and keep time as the beats light up.
Open the tool →Record your own asamyuta and samyuta hastas on camera and build a personal hand-gesture model, right in the browser.
Start recording →Show a hasta to the camera and see it recognised live, with its name and viniyoga.
Perform →The hasta tools use your camera and work best in Chrome. Nothing is uploaded — everything runs on your own device.
Practice, rhythm, and new tools — on Instagram.