Yash dance studio online at home class
1102, 11th floor, Tower-03, LA RESIDENTIA, Amrapali Dream Valley, Ithaira, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201306, India
Yash Dance Studio’s online at-home classes recreate the bright pulse of its Jaipur physical studio without stepping outside your door. Every morning at 7 a.m. IST, founder Yash Chauhan opens a Zoom room that functions less like a generic webinar and more like the mirrored rehearsal space his students know—black strip flooring visible on his mat, a stack of labelled loudspeakers balanced against a marigold wall, and a tablet positioned so he can call out feet angles as easily as he would in person.
Up to forty dancers log in from bedrooms, rooftops and balconies in eight countries. Newcomers receive a couriered welcome kit the day they register: a three-meter roll of non-slip dance carpet cut to their chosen colour, lightweight ankle bells for Bharatnatyam batches, and two resistance bands embroidered with the studio’s turquoise elephant logo. Ten minutes before class begins, Yash and his assistant run optional “mic check” rooms where they set sound latency to 80–100 milliseconds, adjust floor-speaker echo, and run two 8-count choreography trials so students can feel the groove before the live count-in.
The timetable cycles weekly: Monday “Bollywood Burn” (high-energy filmy combos), Tuesday urban hip-hop foundations, Wednesday classical Bharatnatyam technique, Thursday ladies’ semi-classical choreography requests, Friday low-impact movement for seniors, and Saturday family sessions where siblings of any age mirror combos built from cartoons and folk games. Sundays belong to open feedback circles; Yash screens student clips in real time, pauses at the wrist flick or hip drop that needs micro-corrections, and narrates slow-motion replays as if giving private coaching.
Each lesson is supported by an editable Google Drive folder branded with that month’s theme (currently “Monsoon Beats”). Inside are Spotify playlists pre-matched to metronome counts, printable foot diagrams where students can annotate weight-shifts, and 60-second Instagram Story templates ready for posting achievements. After the live hour, classes remain posted on a private Vimeo link for twenty-four hours, saving bandwidth for students in regions with spotty connections.
Interaction is constant. A Telegram “Moves-Wing” channel invites students to drop thirty-second phone clips for peer cheerleading; emoji medals rain down from Istanbul at 2 a.m. when Nida lands her first kathak chakkar. Once a month the studio mails surprise prop boxes—ghungroos, hip scarves, neon gloves—based on cumulative attendance stamps that appear as animated badges on each dancer’s portal profile. The top earner of the quarter wins a live solo feedback session plus a digital certificate Yash signs with the studio’s classic silver ink that he scans and overlays onto the PDF.
Come annual recital time, participants stitch their recorded home segments into one split-screen performance. Last year it featured sixty-three windows cascading across the final video like a patchwork quilt, closing with a curtain call in which every student stepped away from the camera while waving their supplied turquoise elephant flag—proof that distance can still feel like a single, shared studio floor.
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- Published: August 10, 2025
