all good dancers cannot become good teachers. Teaching dance and performing dance are two separate gifts and very rarely does one find the two fused in one and the same person. As most students join dance institutions mainly for the glamour of performing on the stage, they usually do not attempt to qualify themselves to become good dance tutors. The number of persons who join dance institutions with the 

intention of becoming good dance teachers also is very small. Hence in such a medley, the gullible public are thrown into the hands of adventurers and dilettantes whose only claim to dance may be a few months of training under some teacher of good, bad or indifferent repute. Next, it must be remembered also that learning dance under great dancers is a costly affair, far beyond the limited means of the middle class folk. It has therefore, become a monopoly of the rich. Hence real talent gets very little encouragement either from the family or from the public. The conditions, however, are slightly better now because of the Art Scholarships instituted by the Government of India and the States for the benefit of deserving students who need  benefit of deserving students who need encouragement and help. It is today a tragedy to see many good students who have all the requisite talents for becoming 

good dancers but who are trained very badly. Such students gain publicity mainly by their innate talent and not by their technique. How brilliant they could be can be judged by taking the examples of a few students who have first been trained by such bad and indifferent dance tutors and who later mastered the art at the feet of teachers of great repute and knowledge. These students are like brilliant stars in a firmament of assorted artistes.