This age-old arts and cultural academy in Besant Nagar is arguably the best place to learn Bharatanatyam in Chennai. Classes are available as both part time and full-time courses in their massive sprawling campus. Teachers here are professional dancers who’ve spent their lives learning the art, and what you learn here is said to be of gold standard. What’s more? The large campus setting means that dance classes here won’t have to deal with the cacophony of city and traffic noise like other dance classes.