Interested in Private Lessons?
Are you interested in designing a customized program to meet your dance goals? Are you looking for a virtual one-on-one session where you can get detailed, interactive, & personal feedback? Let’s set up a free call where we can talk about what you are looking to build and achieve. I’m here for you.
Please note that August is currently at capacity for private lessons. However if you would like to add your name to a waitlist, please contact me so we can make sure you get the attention you need.
tanya.m.thanawalla@gmail.com
Brooklyn, NY
What students are saying about private lessons:
“If you’re looking to grow as a dancer, I highly recommend doing private lessons with Tanya! Stepping out of my comfort zone by learning a new style of dance was challenging for me, but Tanya really helped ease that stress by focusing on my weaknesses and complementing my strengths. I have seen a drastic improvement in my dancing ever since I started my lessons with Tanya, and I use her critiques every time I dance for other classes or for leisure.
Tanya is very dedicated on helping her students grow. For me, she focused on my weaknesses and taught me how to overcome them. She would go in detail on how I can improve, and by the end of the session, I would have incorporated those critiques into my dancing.
Besides dancing, Tanya is very approachable to any questions or concerns you may have. She would give me advice on how to take care of my body, what attire is best for dancing, and what stretches/exercises help with maintaining stamina. I never felt embarrassed to ask her what was best for me, as she always made me feel comfortable and ensured that each session is a safe space for both of us.
Now, I feel more confident every time I dance. My friends would also mention that they’ve noticed an improvement in my dancing, and I owe it all to Tanya. This was definitely one of the best decisions I have ever made!”
— Smriti, January 2021
“Dance has been a very important part of my life. When quarantine started, I experienced several health issues and I was forced to stop dancing for sometime. When I tried to go back to the dance scene I felt out of place and I found myself struggling to retain choreography. I realized I needed some help getting back to where I was as a dancer. Choosing the right person to help me through this journey was very important for me. I had been following Tanya’s dance journey for the past 2 plus years and have really admired and respected her as a dancer and as a person. She is extremely hard working, empathetic, kind, funny, a versatile dancer and most of all very humble. This is why I felt Tanya was the person to help me through my journey.
In Tanya’s private classes I was able to take it one step at a time. I wasn’t rushing to learn a choreo. It was more about taking my time to hear and feel the music. I learned to pay attention and focus on specific body parts I never did before when executing choreography. Tanya’s encouraging words, positive feedback and dedication helped me gain back my confidence in dance and gave me the courage to create my first choreography, something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time! Thank you Tanya for all your help!”
— Teresa Baila, January 2021
“Tanya is an amazing dancer & an even more incredible trainer. She took the goals I shared with her & pushed me to work towards them through drills and endurance training. Whether it's working on fundamentals or musicality, she guided me in a way that I could understand yet push myself at the same time. At the end of our lessons, I liked that we got to discuss goals and areas of improvement. I found that very helpful in our private sessions. Tanya knows what she's doing & I wouldn't hesitate to take another lesson from her in the future.”
— Sony, December 2020
“I had been following Tanya for a few months when I saw she posted she would open up private sessions for the first time. I was so excited and drawn to her but incredibly nervous that I wasn't good enough or it had been too long since I danced and was hence bad or I was a lost cause and too old and too late...essentially a lot of excuses but I had committed that I would dance this year and I messaged Tanya.
On our first call she was so kind and made me feel comfortable in opening up that I wanted to learn technique in the style of dance she teaches and it had been a long time since I had any training. During that call she was so positive and reassuring that we would get there together. It's been almost two months and my body is moving in ways it hasn't in a VERY long time. One of my goals has been to reconnect to my body through dance and movement and in this time I have realized how much I have missed this level of connection.
Tanya is extremely patient and is highly skilled in the way she communicates and breaks down the movement as well as provides invaluable feedback. She has a keen eye for detail and uses that to give specific feedback to where I could improve. Our first class I was anxious when she said she wanted to watch me perform and now I look forward to it. She has dedicated so much time in helping me understand my movement to help me grow as a dancer. She's genuinely invested in her students and caters to each one's specific needs and goals. I've found often times what she says during our session applies to life too - "we are all comfortable in our own box, step/dance outside of it" and "be mindful of that core" (this one has helped me stay focused on my core during workouts), all of which has helped me to dance out loud. I feel privileged to have the 1:1 sessions with Tanya, I feel far more confident dancing and I'm excited to keep pushing boundaries and moving further in my dance journey with Tanya as my teacher. One of the best decisions I have made was signing up with her.”
— Sona Bhatia, September 2020
“If you are a dancer and feeling stagnant on your dance journey, GO TO TANYA. I went into my private lessons with her feeling incredibly unmotivated and lost. I was so unsure of how to improve and felt like nothing I was doing was working. Three lessons later, I feel like I have SO many different tools that can help me become the dancer I want to be. Tanya geared each lesson towards my specific dance goals and made sure I got everything out of the lesson that I wanted to, even if it meant going overtime. She also gave me SUCH detailed feedback on each one of my movements and continued to give me feedback in between lessons, so I always felt like I had her to guide me. Tanya truly puts her all into training her students. I am so excited to have renewed my passion for dance but to also have developed a newfound understanding of it. Her classes are truly worth every penny. So grateful to have a teacher like Tanya to push me forward on my dance journey, cannot stress how much she has helped me enough.”
— Sarika Agarwal, August 2020