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Learn the power of positive Attitude

So try letting yourself go, just for the heck of it!

Take that step back from being 'done to' and take the initiative. At work, at home or wherever, this can be a great time, if you let it. There are loads of ideas why. Here are eleven of my favourites...
Personal Growth
Change gives us great moments for self-development and personal growth. It is in times where there is a lot going on, where we have to get out of our box to think, even when change is imposed, that we move forward.

Involving Others
During change periods we can create relationships that are new - and we, as managers, have a great chance to bring others into our confidence and into our network.

Adventure
There is something about change, large or small which creates 'something different' from our routine day. This is pretty cool really. We are being provided with stimulating mental exercise to make the best of things happening differently. It might not look that way, but change brings adventure!

Building it in
Learning about big changes, means that we can closely observe why those changes are necessary. We have to make radical changes because we have strayed well off course. So as we learn, we can make provision to have some minor course corrections rather than completely the wrong destination.

Challenge
In his great book, 'The Inner Game of Work', Timothy Gallwey talks about the fine balance between security and challenge being what gets people motivated. By creating new things to learn, to do, we stretch our people - and ourselves.

Opportunity Change brings new opportunity. For learning; for understanding ourselves better; for new perspectives; for different roles. These can be grasped personally or they can be dwelt on miserably. The better choice is to go for it!

Team Bonding
Change exercises, big and small can be great to develop a team. Where there is the opportunity to work together, manager with their closest people there are often places, moments where the team spirit; the trust and the shared commitment - the 'Dunkirk spirit' even, enables future potential of a team to be loosened.

Honesty
Where radical change proves necessary it enlightens those involved that where they are is not where they need to be. Carrying out a review of why serious change is necessary and seeking the real truth is very revealing. The icing on the cake for those involved in organisational change processes is to create a feedback loop that renders future major change unnecessary.

Choice
Change is not truly necessary. Change is about choice. You have the choice whether to accept it positively or not. It is your choice and everyone has that - believe it or not. No-one is holding you down to prevent you getting away. Take personal responsibility for the choices you make.

Focus
Change gives the opportunity for and usually gets really down to the gist of the issues that have precipitated the need. This is good. Your organisation is realising that things need to be different, for all sorts of reasons, but usually for the health of the organisation and that means you, usually. For some it may mean loss of role, status and even job - now what positive opportunity does that bring!

Passion
And finally, we have the opportunity to review our own roles, not just in the workplace, but in life too. Are you passionate about your work - or are you just muddling through? Are new opportunities presented to you personally through change - within or without the place where you work today? What is your personal passion and how do you work towards making that how you spend every day of your life?
Hey change can be fun, if you let it be. You life can be a straight line, and if you saw that one ER, what would it mean...

Learn the power of positive Attitude

So try letting yourself go, just for the heck of it!

Take that step back from being 'done to' and take the initiative. At work, at home or wherever, this can be a great time, if you let it. There are loads of ideas why. Here are eleven of my favourites...
Personal Growth
Change gives us great moments for self-development and personal growth. It is in times where there is a lot going on, where we have to get out of our box to think, even when change is imposed, that we move forward.

Involving Others
During change periods we can create relationships that are new - and we, as managers, have a great chance to bring others into our confidence and into our network.

Adventure
There is something about change, large or small which creates 'something different' from our routine day. This is pretty cool really. We are being provided with stimulating mental exercise to make the best of things happening differently. It might not look that way, but change brings adventure!

Building it in
Learning about big changes, means that we can closely observe why those changes are necessary. We have to make radical changes because we have strayed well off course. So as we learn, we can make provision to have some minor course corrections rather than completely the wrong destination.

Challenge
In his great book, 'The Inner Game of Work', Timothy Gallwey talks about the fine balance between security and challenge being what gets people motivated. By creating new things to learn, to do, we stretch our people - and ourselves.

Opportunity Change brings new opportunity. For learning; for understanding ourselves better; for new perspectives; for different roles. These can be grasped personally or they can be dwelt on miserably. The better choice is to go for it!

Team Bonding
Change exercises, big and small can be great to develop a team. Where there is the opportunity to work together, manager with their closest people there are often places, moments where the team spirit; the trust and the shared commitment - the 'Dunkirk spirit' even, enables future potential of a team to be loosened.

Honesty
Where radical change proves necessary it enlightens those involved that where they are is not where they need to be. Carrying out a review of why serious change is necessary and seeking the real truth is very revealing. The icing on the cake for those involved in organisational change processes is to create a feedback loop that renders future major change unnecessary.

Choice
Change is not truly necessary. Change is about choice. You have the choice whether to accept it positively or not. It is your choice and everyone has that - believe it or not. No-one is holding you down to prevent you getting away. Take personal responsibility for the choices you make.

Focus
Change gives the opportunity for and usually gets really down to the gist of the issues that have precipitated the need. This is good. Your organisation is realising that things need to be different, for all sorts of reasons, but usually for the health of the organisation and that means you, usually. For some it may mean loss of role, status and even job - now what positive opportunity does that bring!

Passion
And finally, we have the opportunity to review our own roles, not just in the workplace, but in life too. Are you passionate about your work - or are you just muddling through? Are new opportunities presented to you personally through change - within or without the place where you work today? What is your personal passion and how do you work towards making that how you spend every day of your life?
Hey change can be fun, if you let it be. You life can be a straight line, and if you saw that one ER, what would it mean...

SOROJ KHAN DANCE CLASSES

Dance Class Western , Filmy, Freestyle
Classes are held on Dance for all age groups "SHOWSTOPPER"Academy of dance in association with Saroj Khan. Coaches students in Western Dancing and Body fitness, Provides opportunities to perform on Television shows like " Boogie Woogie" and Movies. Students of our class have performed and won in Boogie-Woogie, performed in Film award shows, Albums ...
Contact Person: Charanjit
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871, 25941021
Address: Gurav hall, 1st Floor, Sector 9A, Next to Vashi Bus Depot, Navi-Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400703
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Coaching in Western Dance & Body Fitness.
"SHOWSTOPPER"Academy of dance in association with Saroj Khan. Coaches students in Western Dancing and Body fitness, Provides opportunities to perform on Television shows like " Boogie Woogie" and Movies. Special batches for elders at the Powai Branch.
Contact Person: Charanjeet Singh Kalsi
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871, 25941021
Address: Gopal-Sharma School, Powai-Vihar complex, Powai. / Gurav Hall, Sector 9A, Near Vashi Depot, Vashi.
MAHARASHTRA - 400 076
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Keyboard / PianoClasses on Piano / Keyboard for western pop / classical songs or Indian Songs held for all age groups.
Contact Person: Roma Shah
Timings:
Phone: 98202 77480 / 23681510
Address: 49/9 th Flr, 78 Nepean Sea Rd, Bombay
Maharashtra - 400006
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Indian Filmy and Western Dances"Feel" Dance Academy,In Association with Saroj Khan, Learn Hindi Filmy, Western, Freestyle Dancin' with Dance Aerobics. WANT Michael's Magic? Madonna's Charishma? Nsync's Talent? Janet's Perfection? Usher's Smoothness? Simply watching them gyrate on MTV while you sprawl on the couch isn't doing much in the way of toning your arms, belly tush, so get up and learn their moves. Classes on Mon, Wed, Fri for Kids And Adults ( For All Age Groups ). Classes supervised by saroj khan.
Contact Person: Charanjeet
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871
Address: Sahiba Hall, Back Hall, Adarsh Nagar, in lane A

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The New Big B

"That’s the teen chant gathering around choreographer and singer Ganesh Hegde. Sonia Faleiro gets past the glamour — the gold flecked hair, the apple-red Mitsubishi — to unveil an impoverished past.

"In a basement lined with mirrors thudding to the rhythm of Hindi pop music, 11 young men and women are crouching on their fours, torsos thrusting, backs arching, arms moving like ribbons sailing in the air. Calvin Klein peeks out of Fruit-tella pink Polo sweats; Nike Air from billowing pants of orange. As they dance to a medley of chartoppers from Rang de Basanti to Tera Naam, and for the entire duration of their practise session from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., the dancers’ eyes never leave the mirrors. Their names may be unfamiliar to you, but the passion in their faces as they sweat, jump, and crawl in this underground discotheque, symbolizes all that is magical and intoxicating about the movies. Watch this scene, for it is during one like this that the troupe’s choreographer, 32-year-old Ganesh Hegde—the man behind songs like Kambakht Ishq, 2001; Khallas, 2002; and Babuji, 2003—knew he was going places.

It was six months ago, however, when a rash of 18 billboards appeared in the most prominent neighbourhoods in Mumbai, that the public began acknowledging this too. On each billboard, a chiseled face peeked out of a white hood. Under it the alphabet G shone in faux diamonds. Was G a singer, a dancer, or a movie star, wondered pedestrians, drivers, and schoolchildren staring at the glamorous image? As it turns out, G is two of the above, one day perhaps to be the third as well. Hegde’s debut Hindi pop album, G, has made him that rare choreographer, like Farah Khan (director) and Prabhudeva (actor), who has expanded his market value substantially in an area other than dance. In an industry where success appears to come only to a Kapoor, a Khan, or a Deol, this crossover, and its impact, is remarkable.

Hegde’s 10-year-old career began in 1994 when event management company Wizcraft commissioned him to choreograph the Filmfare awards, which he did for 10 straight years. It was during one such show that director Sanjay Leela Bhansali offered him his first film break choreographing Khamoshi. Bhansali wasn’t the only one with an eye for potential. Director Shekhar Kapoor was searching for a lead actor opposite his new find Preity Zinta, in Tara-Rum-Pum. Hegde turned down the role, and since the film was never made, reiterated his sound professional judgement. Since then, Hegde has choreographed dance tours, co-starring himself, for Shah Rukh Khan, among others, in the Americas and Europe. In New York girls scream with joy when he’s on stage. Considering the unabashedly sly, sexy moves that have become his trademark, and are seen in the music video for his song Main Deewana, this is to be expected. What isn’t, perhaps, is the distance Hegde has travelled. The realization to a bystander, that the long legged man with the gold flecked hair, now sitting in the backseat of the apple red Mitsubishi Lancer was once a boy who lived on Mira Road, for who butter was “chandi” (silver), and a banana a week a “delicacy.”

Hegde is the second of three siblings born to Vidya, a Parsi and Harishchandra Hegde, a Mangalorean, in suburban Malad. His maternal grandfather passed on when his father was a boy, and as a result the latter’s education didn’t progress far. As a teenager, he worked as a hotel boy, and later assisted his father-law in his ayurvedic medicine business. His best salesmen were his children, and Hegde recalls long, muggy afternoons of traversing neighbourhoods with body balms, ringing doorbells, and suffering rebuffs. “We knew, boss, life isn’t going to be easy,” says Hegde. “That we had to be the running force.” While his mother worked as an accountant, earning Rs 750 a month, his sister Renuka gave tuitions for which she was paid in clothes or schoolbooks. At 12, Hegde worked briefly at a medical store. Despite the raw edges of life, there were some comforting absolutes in the Hegde family. And these proved to be their saviour. Higher education was insisted upon by his parents. (As a result, Renuka is now a software engineer settled in Chicago, and Kishore, the eldest brother, is a chartered accountant.) Hegde’s love of music and dance was also respected and encouraged by them. “No matter what,” he says. “We were very happy. It’s only now when we look back that we wonder how we could have gone through those days. I valued that training, yes, but now I want to protect my family from those things.”

Hegde would organise groups of his friends to participate in his school, Ummedhbhai Patel’s Annual Day dance competition, and in local pandals during festivals like Navratri. His talent as a singer took longer to become public, however. “I used to stammer a lot,” he says. “Insecurities the. Pant pathi thi peeche se, kaun dekhega aur hasenga. Once when I was on stage and heard my voice without the music, I started crying. … But I learnt quickly because of the deficiencies we suffered,” he says. (My pants were torn; I though I’d be laughed at). At home, his mother’s radio played on, filling the empty spaces within their thin walls, with the music of films by Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, and RD Burman. “That was my first school of music,” he smiles. “Despite our problems, my mom and dad still managed to show us a movie a month. And that one movie did a lot for me. Amitabh Bachchan was the main star, and I would watch all his movies. I’d narrate scenes, emulate him. After watching Sholay, I would ask in every drawing we visited, ‘Kitne Aadmi The?’ And when he was hurt I told my father that I wanted to donate blood. In these ways Bollywood came into my life.”

Unable to pay the maintenance fee for their own apartment in Malad, the family had to move to a rental on Mira Road, a dusty suburb of salt pan land. At 17, Hegde started a degree in commerce at Dalmiya College, Malad, where he was also the leader of a gang of friends who called themselves “Twisted Brother”. “It was all about masti and pranks,” laughs Sanjeev Sharma, member, and now Hegde’s manager. Metamorphosis into “Hammer’s Group” (a reference to their dance influence; Michael Jackson was also a favourite), underlined the trendy, youthful essence of the boys’ subsequent careers. For many years this meant choreographing Hawaiian and Arabic theme parties, and once, a launch for Jordache jeans, for which payment is pending.

A step ahead was being a back up dancer, even though dancers then were treated like lackeys, and paid little, rarely. “Even our allowances when we were abroad were kept by the boss,” says Hegde. “Most of the time we starved. But I accepted it because I knew it was a stepping stone.” And there were perks. When the boss was away, Hegde would choreograph for the troupe; and what he now does four times a year, he did for the first time as an impoverished dancer whose heart beat to the rhythm of a Bollywood song: “In those days America was like the moon for me. I’d watch planes, and think ‘when will I sit in one?’ When I got on my first flight; I kept touching the seats in awe. So even though the money wasn’t there, these things kept me going.” After he was underpaid, yet again, Hegde left with his friends to form his own troupe. “Initially I paid them Rs 400, and myself Rs 1, 000,” he says. “Now I pay my dancers Rs 25,000 a show, depending on the size of the show. I know what it’s like to put your life into something, and get nothing in return. How much pain and stress it causes the person, and his family.”

These and other facts about Hegde, despite a decade in show business, haven’t made it to print before. He says, and a Google search reiterates, “Before this interview, whenever asked me to talk about my life, I would start with incidents from age 15.” Hegde isn’t embarrassed by his past of hard knocks; he dislikes pity. “My friends were rich; they had cars, perfumes, you know all those things? At the time Chinese food was a rage; mind blowing. They’d try to drag me along, but I never went. Eventually word might get out that I couldn’t pay and I’d be made to look down.”

As much as Hegde’s success as a choreographer and singer, and a hint of careers in acting—he has received offers for Hindi and Kannada films—and directing to follow, it is his unabashed sense of self worth, and his ambition, which appears to disconcert his colleagues. “He’s always wanted to be big; and everything he did had to be larger than life,” says Sharma. Film journalists describe him as arrogant, and he recently said of turning down an offer to choreograph Salman Khan’s World tour, “I need to concentrate on my career rather than please anyone. Why will I leave this for a four-month vanvas for nothing at all?” A good decision, again, considering that a week after, Khan was sentenced to five years imprisonment for poaching.

What must most disconcert naysayers, however, is the fact that Hegde puts his money where his mouth is. “He absorbs Bollywood and translates it into something that is uniquely Ganesh,” says Sanjoy Roy, Wizcraft. In a time of bust thrusts and crude plagiarism, his choreography is original and hip attracting fans in the age group which matters, eight-18. Teens chant, ‘G, the new Big B’. He’s working on a second album, another music video for his first, and in April will head to Malaysia to choreograph the title sequence of Farhan Akhtar’s Don, starring Shah Rukh Khan—a buddy, who helped him get his first album deal with T-Series.

The boy from the distant ‘burbs, now a man with a penchant for velvet hats, electronic gadgets, a game or cards and of cricket, says firmly, “I just want people to know that I’m different. And that I’ll always deliver.”

So far so good."

Sanjeev mehta's elegant dance academy. Posted on : 05-Jul-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Others: Music and Entertainment Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: sanjeev mehta Contact Number: 9224321778
"hey i m Sanjeev Mehta , i am a choreographer for bollywood just started my career with few music videos and ads.


Learn guitar / keyboards Posted on : 26-May-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Music Classes Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: Manish Sharma Contact Number: 9920317821
Private home tutions in Mumbai/Navi Mumbai, Trinity College of music London Syllabus / Pop music / Indian classical

Salsa classes in mumbai-shalet dance class Posted on : 28-Jun-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Dance Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: shalet Contact Number: 9820361165
Dance and Aerobic Classes for kids and adults at hiranandani, Powai and Chakala, Andheri East. Learn Salsa, Jive, Waltz, Hip-hop and Bollywood dance

Dance choreographer & event organiser Posted on : 29-Jun-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Entertainers Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: yogesh patkar Contact Number: 09323578377
i yogesh patkar is the dance choreographer of nach baliye 2 of manav & shweta. choreographed Gladrags mrs.India for 3 years. I am working in this profession since last 12 year

Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Dance Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: SOHIL VIRANI Contact Number: 9860258570
Rythm- come to the world of fitness and dance. At Rythm you cum in as learners and cum out as proffesionals. We teach western,salsa,hip-hop,rock-n-roll,bollywood fusion