Nritya Kala Mandir, literally translated as “Temple for Dance”, is a school for committed budding artists to learn for excellence and to practice for perfection to express their devotion to dance.
It was a dream by Kanan Bhatt, the Founder Director, to bring ethnic dance to every individual who had inclination, interest and passion for the art forms and thus to keep the ethnic culture alive into the hearts of younger generations.
This aspiration accompanied by the dedication for dance led Kanan to start mentoring dance enthusiasts in Bharatanatyam, Indian classical dance form, thus laying the foundation of Nritya Kala Mandir, initially in Amdavad, India in 1987 and later in Toronto, Canada in 2001.
Nritya Kala Mandir trains young students in Bharatanatyam & Folk dance styles at three different locations in GTA – Scarborough, Vaughan, & Brampton.