
THE JUNOON GURUKUL
If great importance is attached to the search for knowledge in India, there ought to be a system that duly honours this give and take, this exchange of it and in doing so, facilitates it.
This is a Gurukul.
A system of education that is an immersive and wholesome learning experience for the students that choose to attend such an establishment and inhabit this ecosystem.
The students are versatile yet focused.
Their education: painstakingly thorough yet profoundly fulfilling.
Their futures: Full of promise, whatever way they choose to go.
The path to knowledge of any subject is crucial - the journey significantly more important than the destination - in all the wisdom amassed along the way.
A Gurukul is that path. Its emphasis on the performing arts takes every shishya through a vital process of transformation and instils a deep-rooted sense of self, spirit and responsibility. A practitioner is accountable to her Art - in practice and perpetuation.
In the realm of performing arts, this search for knowledge, is better described as a quest for beauty. For the purpose of all Art is to add more beauty into the world.
A Gurukul is a place where beauty is allowed to breathe and burgeon.
This search to know more and give more is a journey of faith, hope, tolerance, humility, acceptance, discipline, obeisance, surrender and patience. In the presence of these, the relationship between teacher and student - Guru and Shishya - two individuals of unequal knowledge, is established, strengthened and possible. This bond proves vital in keeping both centred through life. For the Art, in its passage from generation to generation, will always be larger than the artiste.
It takes great sensitivity to learn and teach, to give and gather knowledge. A Gurukul is the home of the curious, hardworking, perceptive and humble - the truest servants of a subject of learning, the purest practitioners of an Art, the most passionate beings on earth.
JUNOON.
As the mysteries of the Arts unfold,
Literature, movement and metaphor;
Poetry, rhythm and cadence;
Sculpture, poise and posture;
Painting, strokes and colour;
Music, melody, grace and movement;
Expression, written, verbal and facial;
Theatre, technique, spontaneity and emotion
And ultimately, the Dance,
Is better understood, better executed, more open than it ever was.
And open to any and all.
Here, at,
THE JUNOON GURUKUL.


PROGRAM CONTENT
TECHNIQUE
The students are trained primarily in the Classical Dance forms of Ballet and BharataNatyam for an understanding of both Western and Indian Classical Dance. Derivative dance forms such as Lyrical, Contemporary and Jazz will also be incorporated as a diversion.
THEORY
They will garner a general literary appreciation, be introduced to Art appreciation and criticism as well as understand and formulate their own opinions on how Art can be an instrument for social change.
FITNESS
Since artists who practice Classical Dance are athletes in their own right, our girls will also be put on an intense fitness regimen that incorporates Yoga, Athletics, Calisthenics, Pilates and Other Stretching, Strengthening and Flexibility Drills.
















LETTER EXCHANGES within
THE JUNOON GURUKUL

Read what we write to and receive from our girls.
SOUND BITES from
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These are some valuable exchanges when we're in session, worth saving and sharing!

#1 - HUMANLY GOD; GODLY HUMAN

#2 - REFLECTIONS ON HUMANLY GOD; GODLY HUMAN
