Gates opened her Natanam Dance School in Spokane Valley in 2018. She offers Bollywood dance classes that fuse traditional Indian dance with modern dance forms like hip-hop and jazz.

In fact, classical Indian dance originally began as worship, according to Akhila Rao, artistic director of Apoorva Noopura School of Dance in Bridgewater, which she started in 2004.

Installation view of "Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art" at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, with a statue of Shiva displayed against a backdrop of NASA footage of solar flares ...

Bollywood is not a dance style, which is something Kazi stresses repeatedly. The designation came from Hindi-language Indian films made in Bombay: Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood.