Paid – Model Shoot For An International E-Commerce Site 2021
(Site Release and Business : USA, UK, Australia & New Zealand)

Camera : Selected Shots by client. Iphone(Nirja), Canon(Samarth). Filter : Black and White series. #NoMakeupChallenge. Shots by Hetal Joshi M & Nirja Setty (at The Grace Effects).

****Parents have requested to limit media exposure in performing arts activities as both kids pretty good in studies. They do it for fun :).

Special Thanks To Hetal Nagaraj | www.hetaln.com | Hetal Joshi M : We have our own website today because of all the beautiful background that we have created with her and under her guidance, one class at a time, one performance at a time with all the right people. All of these achievements are without missing out on our studies, school days, vacations fun times, friends-party and other activities. So many opportunties just by attending our classes on time with Ms. Hetal.

About us : The Settys and Our Bio.

Guru | Teacher | Guide | Mentor | Leadership : Hetal Nagaraj

Trainings : Hetal Nagaraj. Company : Grace And Grooves Group – G1

About : Nirja Setty : Nirja Setty (2005) | Samarth Setty : Samarth Setty (2007)

Facebook(Limited) : Nirja Setty | Samarth Setty

Twitter(Limited) : https://twitter.com/thesettys?s=11

Our Youtube in Progress (Limited) : The Settys

Artist & Model Training Under Reachh Mediaa Since 2013 :

Paid / Sponsored Events w/without Costume Sponsorships for Dances :

  • 1. Event 1 : Bharatanatyam : Bho Shamboo : Costume Supplier – Sponsorship (also copyright work with permissions over email for educational purposes only and never used to submit to competitions, ever.)
  • 2. Event 2 : Sarva Thala Mayam : Dance on Bollywood Song –
    • Fusion of 2 Bharatanatyam Styles on classical music composed artifically(layman language) – Danceathon 1 (Time sponsored by former owner of Kalasri Institute of Bharatanatyam)
  • 3. Event 3 : Bollywood : All Costumes Sponsored to Sell : Song 1, Song 2, Song 3 (0:37 to 0:50)
  • 4. Event 4 : Indian Folk Dances : Sponsored to Buy – Costume (0:00 to 0:15), (0:22 to 1:28)
  • 5. Event 5: Sponsored to Own : – Costumes (0:50 to 1:02)
  • 6. Event 6 : Upload In Process.

Bharatanatyam Arangetram of The Settys as listed below :

Nirja : Arangetram | Samarth : Arangetram :

  • Arangetram of all 8 major dance pieces of Bharatanatyam + Indian Folk Dances as seperate dance piece & Rabindra Nruthya dance piece as seperate dance piece. With/After full trainings.
  • Winners of all margam dance pieces by rules of Bharatanatyam dance competitions from Pushpanjali to Varnam for straight 11 years, by genre. With/After full trainings.
  • Arangetram : International Audience and Online : Approx 400 people attended their events.
  • Bharatanatyam Grads. | See it here.

Bollywood | Tollywood | Cinematic :

  • Full trainings by full curriculam under hetalnagaraj with several asst. sub teachers with full leadership as well as instruction/curriculam/techniques by hetalnagaraj.
  • Winners of Bollywood Dances by age group, grade & technique level for almost 10 years straight. At times, hattrick in one year. After/With full trainings. Bollywood Grads. | See it here.

Indian Folk Dances :

  • Full trainings exclusive to hetalnagaraj.
  • Nirja took 1 year classes & a few private classes from some other dance teacher ( and was fraud victim ) and returned back to Hetal Nagaraj. the name of that dance teacher is not mentioned in this post or anywhere.
  • Winners of more than half a dozen regions of Indian folk dances for Samarth and for Nirja more than 14 regions along with dance dramas, year by year, in Indian Folk Dance Competitions for straight 10 years. After/With full trainings with competition wins as well as culture awards.
  • For some years, hattrick in all genres! Indian Folk Dance Grads. | See it here.

Bharatanatyam :

  • Full trainings by margam under exclusive hetal nagaraj.
  • 4 dance pieces with some dancer – creative classical dance (dance pieces when submitted to several bharatanatyam programs was not classified as bharatanatyam (as needed) so stopped).
  • 1st 3 Winner of curriculam margam(technique focused) competitions.
  • hetal nagaraj’s creative bharatanatyam for competitions for straight 11 years with all the margam pieces one at a time. exclusive choreography/instruction by hetalnagaraj.
  • Nattavangam, Thalam some with ms. neethu-kalakshetra and some with ms. hetalnagaraj.

Fusion Dances : Winners of fusion dances for straight 6 years back to back. Level by level, grade by grade and with minimum 2 independent styles or dance forms used in choreography. Fully trained in all the dance forms or styles prior to competitions or fusion trainings. About G2 Dance Factory. | See it here. G2 dance factory brand was dissolved in Feb 2023 until further notice.

Institutional Teaching Experience / Internships & Private Classes: Bharatanatyam, Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood. See us – doing our internships and results.

International Awards & Nominations : Nirja Setty | Samarth Setty

Faith Religion Dances : Click Here.

Kalaripayattu : As below.

Commercial Dances – Festival Dances – Community Dances : Upload In Process

Comtemporary : Showcase 1 Broadway fusion with Kalaripayattu fusions

Theater | Theatre | Acting | Drama with/without Dance : As below

Fundraisers – Non-Profit Dance Programs : Some are listed here & here.

Institutitonal Workshop Experience / Internships : Bharatanatyam, Indian Folk Dances, Bollywood : Upload in Process.

Nirja : Upload in Process.

Samarth : Upload in Process.

Competition Wins, Solo and Group w/own share of payout : 100$, 150$, 250$, 500$.

Fundraiser Gifts of $$ : Gifted 350$ of “own solo” competition wins to school fundraiser. Represented school.

Performances w/own share of payouts for commercial programs onstage or events, as per request: 100$, 150$, 250$, 400$ to 2500$.

Own share of shoot payouts (model + dance) : 15$, 50$, 150$, 250$, 4000$.

In lieu of services – Volunteer (Texas All Star Talents Student Program) : perks of “elite line” of costumes with matching props, 100s of $ of subscriptions to direct clients, pre-shoot preps worth 350$, make up & hair – 500$ for a model shoot.

Number of brands launched in Dallas Fortworth and world-wide (with shoots in DFW with Hetal Nagaraj and without our teams as well by their own teams), exclusively + with other auditioned groups : 40

Nirja’s highest win at a (model) competition as early as 8 months : 8,000$ “non-transferable” voucher for Disneyland, Florida + 1 year of baby food supply-Gerber. Obviously, thesettys used it!

Samarth’s first performance & sponsor as early as 3.5 years old : Samarth’s first commercial performance was at a stadium with an audience of 5000 people. It was a performance of soccer ball drills choreographed with the music by Hetal Nagaraj. Ages 3.5 to 6. Soccer drills taught by a certified coach. – Pics & clips in process. 1st Sponsorship + 1 year of sports wear FREE.

First performances – pics in process:

  • Samarth’s first performance at the age of 3.5 yrs at montessori school for a Couple Dance under training of hetalnagaraj for a montessori project, Irving.
  • Nirja’s first performance age 3.5 yrs by herself at Hare Krishna Temple, Dallas Texas!

Our Sponsored Events : It is our honor to sponsor these events with and without collab :

Dance productions | program | events by Hetal Joshi M, Hetal Nagaraj exclusively:

  1. Texas All Star Talents 2015 – Welcome Dance.
  2. Recital 2016 – C.R.Y.(Child Rights & You) America. Fundraiser – multi genre recital featuring dance of gods.
  3. Recital 2017 – Nritya/Nruthya Ki Masti (translation : Dances of fun) – featuring festivals of India – multi genre recital.
  4. Texas All Star Talents 2017 – Welcome Dance.
  5. Recital 2018 – ABCD ki Duniya – American Born Culture Desi’s Life – featuring NRI life in USA. – multi genre recital + Fusions
  6. Anantha Classical Dance Production 2019
  7. Duet Arangetram of Samarth Setty w/Ms. Tejaswini 2019. Spl performances by Nirja Setty.
  8. Sarva Cinema Dance Production 2019
  9. Rang Folk Dance Production 2019
  10. Anantha Classical Dance Production 2020 – rehearsals in full. program cancelled-covid-lockdown
  11. March Madness Annual Recital 2020 – – rehearsals in full. program cancelled-covid-lockdown
  12. Sarva Cinema Dance Production 2020 – rehearsals in full. program cancelled-covid-lockdown
  13. Rang Folk Dance Production 2020 – rehearsals in full. program cancelled-covid-lockdown
  14. LIVE Arangetram Nirja Setty Jan 2021 – showcased internationally. Recording Asst. Samarth Setty.
  15. 3.5 hour comercial folk shoot as requested – showcased, submitted and won internationally, 2021.
  16. Anantha Classical Dance Production 2021
  17. Rang Folk Dance Production 2021
  18. Sarva Cinema Dance Production 2021
  19. Anantha Classical Dance Production 2022
  20. Rang Folk Dance Production 2022
  21. Sarva Cinema Dance Production 2022
  22. March Madness Annual Recital 2022
  23. Texas All Star Talents 2022 – May
  24. Commercial Dance Production 2022 – May – as requested.
  25. Commercial Dance Production 2022 – August – As requested.
  26. ISD shoot 1 with dance clips and poses – Fashion and Lifestyle.
  27. ISD shoot 2 with dance clips and poses – Teen and Pre.Teens
  28. Commercial dance + sport shoot under Hetal Nagaraj – Kalaripayattu
  29. Mcee Automation/Pre.programmed, Sound, Lights March 2023.

The Settys have performed in following cities :

  1. DFW Metroplex Texas, USA
    • Plano, Frisco, Irving, Grapevine, Arlington, Grand Prarie, Southlake, Fortworth, Lewisville, Carrollton, Addison, Dallas, Denton, Flowermound, Allen, Keller, Garland, Euless.
  2. Houston, Texas, USA
  3. Austin, Texas, USA
  4. Commerce, Texas, USA
  5. Columbus, Ohio, USA
  6. Missouri, USA
  7. Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  8. Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Social Media Reels : None.

Commercial / Industrial profiles as per above links and all video clips will/is provided with full traceability on request.

Investing & Key projects : G2 dance factory, Arlington Texas.

In our free time: We sleep alot, hug mommy and daddy a million times, help mommy & daddy with chores, food, shopping, read, play video games, play with our friends in our neighborhood, trips, watch movies with friends and family, socials, do sleepovers, go to malls, bbq & have fun !

Martial Arts:

  1. Under Hetal Nagaraj : Kshatriya – Samarth – Combat Skills – Beginners to
    Intermediate, Drills and Showcases
  2. Under Hetal Nagaraj Kalaripayattu: Showcases and Drills – The Settys.
  3. Under Hetal Nagaraj + Manojbhai(Darpana) Kalaripayattu : Intermediate and Advance – Samarth.
  4.  Karate – Shukotan – Samarth (Sensei Ravi) Frisco, Texas– DropOut – Adv Green Belt.

STEM & Astronomical Sciences as of 2023 are listed here.

Sports as of 2023 are listed here.

Painting, Instruments, Rock Climbing as of 2023 are listed here.

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****Parents have requested to limit advertising and media exposure in performing arts activities as both kids pretty good in studies.

Thank you Hetal Nagaraj, our guru/mentor and guide who creates beautiful people like our us/elites without compromising on any fundamentals.

This section of the site is updated : July 29th, 2023.

we are still accessing the archives!

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